David Elliott

Sounds like a good idea to go for a WHV in your situation Dave. You sound like you've got some good skills under your belt, wouldn't call it experience yet till you've had a job for a while. If you have family in Bris and you could stay with them for a while you could have a bit of time to look round and then look for jobs. You might even get someone to sponsor you if you want to take the emigration thing further.

I have read that European experience is not really taken into consideration in Oz as it is Asia/Pacific... Personally, do you think that getting some experience alongside of University, most likely over summer or at weekends, could potentially help me securing a job more easy than having no experience at all in Oz? I do have family in Oz but they aren't close family so I will most likely have to rent. I am hoping to go over with ~£6000 which works out to be $10,000 ($1.89 per £1, xe.com) so in the event that I am struggling to find work within the first two quarters of living in Oz I am not in any financial trouble.

EDIT: I have just been on the SEEK job web site and there are far more job vacancies in what I would like to do than there are here in the UK.

Hi,

I am a 19 year old University student residing in Scotland with intentions to migrate to the east side of Australia upon graduation in May/June 2015. I am studying a Computer Systems and Networks course hoping for a career in Systems Administration (Preferably Linux). When I am ready to move I will have a Beng with honours along with Cisco certification (between Entry and Expert - hoping to progress as much as I can) and Microsoft certifications; MCITP and MCP. I would say I have a very broad knowledge in IT from networking to programming, I can write programs and say I was pretty good at it considering I don't study programming but it's pretty much learning all the time. I have to date tried Visual Basic, C#, Bash, Python, HTML and PHP. Not to brag or be big headed but I would say for my age I am pretty clued up.

I was recommend by a fellow student to get a 12 month working visa, he lived in Australia a good few years ago and recommended that this was most likely the best visa for me. I will be moving myself, I have family who live in Brisbane.