Securing a job without a permanent australian address and/or a phone number is harder compared to being on-site. Most employer won't even consider you and will just reply you with a blanket rejection template, unless your skill is in great demand and they can't find it locally. Moreover, you must also be aware the employers are also aware of various job scams.

Odd jobs are good if you can leverage it to get a good reference and contacts for your job of interest. In terms of explaining to employers about your odd jobs, you could always elaborate that you have gained invaluable customer service skills in dealing with people esp. difficult customers . The interview process is basically to judge how quickly you can react to a problem presented to you, and future employers would be impressed if you could use whatever experience, and make it relevant to your field.

So you're trying your luck in Perth first?  I have a good (rich) friend who lives there with a freakishly huge house and drives a Honda City.  I visited him last year, and I really liked the people and the culture there

that's so freaking cheap!!   

AirAsia??
New immigrants from where?? Highly skilled or no skilled?

From a jobseekers point of view, beware of a scam going around that advertises for a job that works from home at the moment with no prior experience whatsoever and they give you the job without the interview. The catch is that they will request for your bank details and you will serve as their money mule in respect of illegal money laundering activities. Beware I was aware of this before getting scammed.

Nursing?? That's good lo ... in many countries, nursing is considered shortage skilled jobs... I've seen a number of malaysians migrated being in this profession. Where are you now?? In NZ or back in M'sia???

Why didn't I choose nursing ...
Not surprising. Australia is huge!! Greenland is about 2.1million km2, Borneo is about 0.7mil km2, while Australia is 8.6mil km2. You can imagine how big is the land size!!

Even the whole EU with 27 member states is only 4.3mil km2....!!!

The thing to note here is that if you have the experience and the skillset which they are critically in need of, then i don't think they mind flying you down to Australia for an interview.
Like what Nemesis is (i think he mentioned he has 10+ years experience but don't know which industry). I know of a few friends who also have companies in Australia flying them in for an interview - all expenses paid. But they are senior (15+ years of experience) in the Oil & Gas industry in Malaysia.

I guess the ones you are referring to are either on the junior side where there are more demand for jobs than supply.

Well, that definitely paints a negative perception about the job markets in OZ.

The only advice I would say is, don't come to Australia for the $. Nobody should be talking about $ without knowing the personal circumstances.

If your household income is AU$100k and you are sending 2 kids to private school which cost AU$30k each, how much do you have left after tax? Probably not enough to even pay your mortgage. If your household income is $150k, which is supposed to be the benchmark for being rich in Australia, considering limited investment for tax deduction and the need for after school child care, how much is there really left?

fyi, i earned rm10-15k in MY b4 coming to oz..

imo.. rm10-15k in MY is really nothing, as in the buying power is not high.. (which has been discussed many many times)

it all depends on what you want..

and ANZ bank(one of the big four) going to outsource 600 call center jobs to offshore. IT prospects in Australia not that good as before
For me, earning that much of money before 30 years old is kinda enough for me. IS good enough in Malaysia but traveling to oversea is another thing.

Btw, just received my IELTS score and feels humiliated by the score. I never expect to score that low as I very confident especially in Reading and Speaking. Would probably retake again but I kinda suspicious in the way they marking. 

Maybe I should tick 2 years of study in English in application form to make the marking level lower

erm..why private school ? public school should be good enough here.. in AU, which is why you guys migrated here..
if you are in OZ sending kids to private school..then imo, it wont be much difference in KL sending your kids to private school teaching AU syllabus..

dont forget the more you earn here, the higher tax you have to pay.. so no point earning the higher range of salary if you are single..

yeah in Australia. visa expiring in 3 months so can't really go back Malaysia for now. Anyway, I will try again

That's what I concerned. I ticked migration and also studies 5years in English

Next time I will try something else with maybe 1 or 2 years of English studied but I don't think different test centre within the country makes any difference. I guess the papers will be transported to head centre for marking

I believe listening and speaking sections are areas which you can practice and be able to score higher with better preparation.

Writing to me should be the toughest, the time allotted itself is also just enough that you have no margin for massive rewrites or lengthy compositions. So just try to write simple and concise within the required word count, and most importantly do not make any gross tense or vocab mistakes.

For speaking, if you retake the test in Malaysia, you could get a local examiner and they might be slightly lenient since they are more accustomed to Malaysian English.

This is my opinion and I could be wrong.

My friend, once took IELTS in Melbourne got the desired score in speaking. The examiner asked him what band do you required and he just said 7. Result come out and he got 7.5 lol

Speaking test in AUstralia kinda tricky because most of the examiners are over not young(more than 40 yo) and you have to speak accurately and slow so they will able to catch you.

Ya just holiday, my research shown different response from different people.. some said we'll need to get international driving permit from JPJ (RM 150) as rental companies require driving licence in English..some said no need, right now Im actually counting on changing to the new driving licence that will be launched in mid July which will be bilingual..

do they allow you to write the question & ans down in point form?
i can ramble for a minute but past 2mins, i forget the question & ultimately derail from the question.

Whatever the case is with IELTS is my advice is to not take it here in Australia. You'll never goddamn pass lol.

I seriously should just consider quitting mah job, sitting for CELTA and teaching IELTS classes either way.

Also it would be wise to note that this year's EOI quota seems smaller, reflecting the trend whereby Labor tries to appease the unions as it is an election year. My advice would be to aim for a band 8 IELTS score if you want to be selected by the automated system as it has a higher weightage.

People should also note the job cap quota. Meaning that although there are say 3000 spaces, for your particular job there might only be 1000 places depending on need. My advice is that if the pool is thinning, apply under another ASCO code.

It's past 1 July. Fee increased means lesser offshore applicants. I can see many offshore especially from India and Pakistan are on hold because they have to get extra funds for wife and kids, $1.5k for secondary applicant is not much in Australia but in India can do a lot of things.

Hopefully this can let immi to keep up all of the outstanding EOI invitations and don't have to wait any longer for new EOI application invitation