Guest Nickpollins Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 I am currently looking for all expats in the Brisbane area who have come across the same kind of discrimination I have. If you have had the usual....too qualified, not enough australian experience, under-qualified (to pack Xmas hampers for example :confused:), not "local" or no responses at all to your applications, drop me a line. I am currently looking for a position myself and have received almost 300 rejections and had only two interviews. This just isn't right and I am willing to do something about it! I am looking at setting up a special association in Australian with a view to potentially setting up a Recruitment Agency for Expats...letting Aussie Employers know that just because you don't have Aussie experience doesn't mean you arent the best person for the job! Please email me for details Thanks and good luck! Changing the world...a day at a time :smile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest proud2beaussie Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Hi Nick, I have edited your post to remove email address and phone number as PIO discourages the posting of such information on open forums due to privacy and spam issues. Good luck with your project. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest juliemtaylor Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 try Ex-Pats Relocations Services bronze Julie x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest12791 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I am currently looking for all expats in the Brisbane area who have come across the same kind of discrimination I have. If you have had the usual....too qualified, not enough australian experience, under-qualified (to pack Xmas hampers for example :confused:), not "local" or no responses at all to your applications, drop me a line. I am currently looking for a position myself and have received almost 300 rejections and had only two interviews. This just isn't right and I am willing to do something about it! I am looking at setting up a special association in Australian with a view to potentially setting up a Recruitment Agency for Expats...letting Aussie Employers know that just because you don't have Aussie experience doesn't mean you arent the best person for the job! Please email me for details Thanks and good luck! Changing the world...a day at a time :smile: My other half sent out hundreds!!!! of email applications for jobs, went to recruitment interviews and also handed resumes out. After four months and a lot!!!!! of money later returned to England . With lots of experience PR visa great references as an engineer hit a brick wall! paid 26 thousand to migration agent all in all to get PR and was promised help with getting jobs with companies who needed skilled engineers. Load of rubbish, didnt want to know on arrival. His previous manager (Large International Company) rang him in Oz and offered him wage increase and excellent job, didnt take two minuites to agree to go back to an hassle free way of life. Two years later he has a fab job with great people but his heart is in brisbane. We had been going to brisbane and australia for ten years so the decision to migrate wasnt an hastey one. Its so different to going there on holiday and the work situation i fear is getting worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millars Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 I am currently looking for all expats in the Brisbane area who have come across the same kind of discrimination I have. If you have had the usual....too qualified, not enough australian experience, under-qualified (to pack Xmas hampers for example ), not "local" or no responses at all to your applications, drop me a line. I am currently looking for a position myself and have received almost 300 rejections and had only two interviews. This just isn't right and I am willing to do something about it! I am looking at setting up a special association in Australian with a view to potentially setting up a Recruitment Agency for Expats...letting Aussie Employers know that just because you don't have Aussie experience doesn't mean you arent the best person for the job! Please email me for details Thanks and good luck! Changing the world...a day at a time :smile: Hi there! I'm sending you a PM. I've also sent loads of applications but no luck, its so frustrating. I only ever apply for jobs I have the skills to do & tailor every application. Feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall :arghh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landv Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 I am currently looking for all expats in the Brisbane area who have come across the same kind of discrimination I have. If you have had the usual....too qualified, not enough australian experience, under-qualified (to pack Xmas hampers for example :confused:), not "local" or no responses at all to your applications, drop me a line. I am currently looking for a position myself and have received almost 300 rejections and had only two interviews. This just isn't right and I am willing to do something about it! I am looking at setting up a special association in Australian with a view to potentially setting up a Recruitment Agency for Expats...letting Aussie Employers know that just because you don't have Aussie experience doesn't mean you arent the best person for the job! Please email me for details Thanks and good luck! Changing the world...a day at a time :smile: I think it's a brilliant idea. My husband having the same problem. Good luck with the project. Let us know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nickpollins Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Thanks landv. Its such a frustrating process. The laughable thing is that apparently the Aussie Govt is advertising for £10 to move to Australia. I hope they also put in the Ad that when you get here you will be ignored for all jobs you could do with your eyes closed!! lol Chin up everyone. The dream isnt over. Not if I have anything to do with it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pomparry Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 that 10 quid thing is for working holidays with STA travel - i.e. student backpacker cheap temporary labour. Does anyone out there have any tips on finding a job? Seems its going to be an issue for my boyfriend (we are moving out together, I have a job already but he will need to get one out in Oz. We will be in Canberra). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nickpollins Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 pomparry...easy lie and pretend to be an aussie!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jamie Smith Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Yep, slow the vowels down and talk without moving your lips - also keeps the flies out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pomparry Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 haha sounds like its going to be worth a try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aldo Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Yep, slow the vowels down and talk without moving your lips - also keeps the flies out... LOL Don't forget to tilt the head slightly left and squint.:laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jamie Smith Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Dye yer eyebrows blond, turn up driving a ute, spill beer down shirt front.... and ask the footy score before interview commences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petals Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Its not just Brits or other migrants that face this dilemma Victorians that move to Queensland are treated just the same. In fact I lived in Sydney and moved to Melbourne and found it hard to get a job here due to the same sort of thing. If you are looking so are many many other people. The old school tie works well in Aus and not what you know but who and this goes for everyone, Aus or migrant. My friends living in Brisbane Australians both were made redundant last week, he is civil engineer, she is travel agent. They are moving back to Victoria. They have been in QLD 12 years now and its always been a roller coaster ride for her husband in the construction industry. He has had to take less skilled work at times just to work. So times have not changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jamie Smith Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Two Australian greetings best NOT to use at job interviews: "howyergoinmateorright?" and "didjabringyagrogalong?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nickpollins Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Two Australian greetings best NOT to use at job interviews: "howyergoinmateorright?" and "didjabringyagrogalong?" Hmmm thats presuming you ever GET an interview!! lol :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest30038 Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 talk without moving your lips - also keeps the flies out... crappin' on yer shoes is another method :biglaugh: kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzer Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Nick, you are on to something here, but one very important thing is to have your CV revised to Australian standards, then be willing to take any job you can just to get some Aussie experience. It makes quite a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nickpollins Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Nick, you are on to something here, but one very important thing is to have your CV revised to Australian standards, then be willing to take any job you can just to get some Aussie experience. It makes quite a difference. Heya THanks for the link. Ive actually had my resume go through 4 HR Director friends of mine and 3 recruitment specialists and its now so aimed for the Aussie recruitment agencies most wouldnt even realise I came from the UK!!! More than willing to take anything. I have one resume for low jobs and one resume for exec jobs. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SGKG102 Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 I am currently looking for all expats in the Brisbane area who have come across the same kind of discrimination I have. If you have had the usual....too qualified, not enough australian experience, under-qualified (to pack Xmas hampers for example :confused:), not "local" or no responses at all to your applications, drop me a line. I am currently looking for a position myself and have received almost 300 rejections and had only two interviews. This just isn't right and I am willing to do something about it! I am looking at setting up a special association in Australian with a view to potentially setting up a Recruitment Agency for Expats...letting Aussie Employers know that just because you don't have Aussie experience doesn't mean you arent the best person for the job! Please email me for details Thanks and good luck! Changing the world...a day at a time :smile: Hi, This problem is not just in Brisbane it is Australia wide. My hubbie is an Australian Citizen returning to live and settle in Perth and he has had no luck on the job front at all. It is not the fact that he can't obtain employment that frustrates it is the fact that he never hears anything back from the many 100's of applications he has submitted, hand delivered etc etc etc. The problem is there are too many people applying for the same job and employers are inundated with applications the majority of which I am sure they do not even bother to look at. The majority of jobs applied for have usually already gone. What do you need to do to get an acknowledgement yet alone an interview. If anyone has any answers please let me know I would be very interested to find out. Karen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bex&tal Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Hi, i've been in Perth 3 months and have applied for all kinds of work to no avail until a friend passed on my application form at his place of work and bingo, interview straight away and start next week!! It is defo WHO you know rather than WHAT you know!! It is no longer an employee's market, there are so many people looking for work and employers can be very choosy now. Many jobs here need certain certificates aswell, I thought about doing just a bar job only to find you need a RSA cert. ( Responsible Service of Alcohol ) Doesn't cost much and fairly easy to get but right pain in the a*** if you don't know about it!! Good luck to everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claire&fred Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Hi, i've been in Perth 3 months and have applied for all kinds of work to no avail until a friend passed on my application form at his place of work and bingo, interview straight away and start next week!! It is defo WHO you know rather than WHAT you know!! It is no longer an employee's market, there are so many people looking for work and employers can be very choosy now. Many jobs here need certain certificates aswell, I thought about doing just a bar job only to find you need a RSA cert. ( Responsible Service of Alcohol ) Doesn't cost much and fairly easy to get but right pain in the a*** if you don't know about it!! Good luck to everyone. This is such a true statement "it's not what you know it's who". The same applied to us. We arrived July last year, my OH did not get a job until the October and that was through our neighbour who was a Geologist. He gave my OH a list of names and numbers and my OH rang the first one, said he had been recommended and he got a job working up in Newman, WA as a Field Assistant. I do believe it is who you know. My OH was then made redundant and went onto plastering but there was not enough work for him. He was out of work for 4 weeks and then after phoning, faxing, emailing his CV off everyday he finally was given a break. I think at the moment, people emigrating have to be very realistic and come with your eyes open and do not expect to get a job straight away even if you are coming in with a trade. My OH is a bricklayer by trade but most the jobs he rang up only wanted Australians which we felt was fair enough. Don't emigrate thinking all is rosy, be positive and realistic in your approach to coming here. It will work out for you eventually. We also found that most of the internet sites advertising jobs are not updated as often as they should be. We found the main newspapers and the local ones the best places to look for jobs. Claire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SGKG102 Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Hi, i've been in Perth 3 months and have applied for all kinds of work to no avail until a friend passed on my application form at his place of work and bingo, interview straight away and start next week!! It is defo WHO you know rather than WHAT you know!! It is no longer an employee's market, there are so many people looking for work and employers can be very choosy now. Many jobs here need certain certificates aswell, I thought about doing just a bar job only to find you need a RSA cert. ( Responsible Service of Alcohol ) Doesn't cost much and fairly easy to get but right pain in the a*** if you don't know about it!! Good luck to everyone. Hi Congratulations on that. Only problem for us is we don't actually have any friends yet, well not in that way, colleagues for myself all of whom's other halfs work in the mines, but no friends. I agree it is not What but Who. Good luck in your new job. Regards Karen :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest claire&fred Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Hi Congratulations on that. Only problem for us is we don't actually have any friends yet, well not in that way, colleagues for myself all of whom's other halfs work in the mines, but no friends. I agree it is not What but Who. Good luck in your new job. Regards Karen :cool: Don't give up, something will come along. Whereabouts are you living? Claire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SGKG102 Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Don't give up, something will come along. Whereabouts are you living? Claire Hiya Claire We are in Clarkson which is just a few miles away from where you are. The problem we have is that we have no transport. We had a hire car for the first 6 weeks but had to give it back as we could no longer afford to keep it. We can't afford to buy one either. Catch 22 really need a car to get a job need a job to get a car :arghh: Regards Karen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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