I don't think you can register with the AHPRA without an assessment by the MBA in the first place.

In that case it isn't an issue. Save yourself some time and just use your active registration then.

Yes that should be correct and is logical, after all the idea behind credential assessment is to allow you to migrate based on your medical qualifications which then leads to practice. If you already practice and are registered, provide proof of this to immi and yes, you'll save yourself some dough.

Most Australian IT call centers have their helpdesks in Malaysia ironically. At least IBM and Dell do based on my dealings with them.

Most registration and assessment agencies are like that, even Engineers Australia.

If you submit your EOI, and you are given an invitation, then you make an application and it is not considered acceptable, you can quickly ask for assessment and provide a receipt. The DIAC will then wait for you to send them the documentation to your assigned case office.

Either way I don't see any issues. Most case officers are quite flexible.

Yes. Find someone who needs your skills in the first place, like a company. They'll file sponsorship papers and when they're done they'll send them to you with which you can make your own application for a sponsored PR.

It depends on occupation mostly, but since assessments have no time limit on validity I would personally get them done ASAP. Saves trouble later down the road.

Subclass 888, Business Innovation and Investment visa. You apply for the provisional Subclass 188 and then after 2 years upgrade to the 888.

1.5 million AUD.

Investment in property is not considered acceptable.

The original 188 has 3 streams you can follow;

1) Business Talent. You need to have owned a business for 4 years and in those 4 years within 2 of them you must have had a turnover of 500k AUD per year. You will need to have 800k in the bank and ready for transfer. The business must be successful.

2) Significant Investor. You don't need to run a business or have an existing one. But you will need 5 Million AUD worth of money to invest in Australia straight up.

3) Standard Investor. You would have pre-arranged investment in Australia of the acceptable kind and held it for 1 year. This investment must be worth 1.5 million. You must have 2.25 million AUD in the bank and ready for transfer.

Also all investments are obviously taxed.

Yes. Anywhere. You just need to show that you can run a business with a significant turnover.

Anyways I've started work at Origin Energy. Anyone here work there?

Yes, there method for calculation depending on percentage of ownership. As you own less, the company turnover requirement increases in turn. You also need to prove you are actively managing the business.

Plus it is worth noting that the 800k you have to transfer is intended for you to set up a business here. If you don't, your 188 will die and you'll have to go back.

Damn. That's harsh. Lucky I didn't kena.

No I mean my AFP records had stuff on them (Now considered "spent"). But still it didn't really hamper anything.

Yeah. Still FIFO but on an absolutely shit 21/7 roster flying out to Reedy Creek (2 hours drive from Roma). But hey for that 1 week I'm back in Brisbane, in which I'll spend 5 days sleeping, playing computer games and doing jack shit, I can live awesomely and blow my money on fast cars and penthouses.

Yes, I just did my IELTS last week for my Canadian PR under the FSW. Once the results arrive I'm all done. Moving to Canada is more of a 2015 thing but I make all preparations extremely early. If Origin decides to give me a grand a day next year I might not even move.

Depends on the job and the money. Always ensure you're being paid a fair wage.

Well, like I said. As long as it is a fair wage for what you are doing then there is no issue. Always do your research on the market and what you're worth. For example; 6000 dollars per month equates to about 72000 a year pre-tax, which can be tight in urban Sydney but is fine, dollar for dollar in KL.

As for the life. Don't worry too much about it, you'll make new friends and having family far away sometimes has its advantages.

Then it's a personal choice. If I had a stable relationship I probably wouldn't. But I'm not in your shoes, thus my opinion is pretty moot.

Welcome to QLD. Bestest and most sunshine state. Been here 7 years, wouldn't rather be anywhere else in friggen Australia.

If you want to rent a house for a very reasonable sum of money, do PM me.

Actually it is quite technical. SAP (excluding the simple stuff like ABAP / SAPBUSONE) is what most of the largest companies in the world companies run on.

We have a joke in the industry that SAP was made by the Germans as a final "f*** you" to the world after losing WW2. It is extremely complex, the certification price borders on insane (10000 AUD for 10 day course for one section), its interlocking components require a strong knowledge of both programming and business flow.

Essentially a good SAP consultant is a programmer, business admin, mathematician, networking specialist and data analyst. A SAP system can consist of everything from production data, risk management, accounting, invoicing and hell you can crosslink it with a supplier's SAP so ordering is automated depending on stock levels.

I know it generally because I used to ensure my company's SAP infrastructure was up and running (network, SQL database, ODBC linking, automated mirroring and compliance)/

If I had SAP certs I would have demanded a lot more. It's been quite some time since I touched SAP, but there's a reason people get paid well for it. I mostly deal with its rival Oracle these days, but I understand that niche IT is very high in demand. For example a person with a CCIE can generally expect to earn 200k a year easily. But of course the content of these courses makes uni look easy, I did my CCNA in 2005 and did my CCNP (BSCI) in 2007 half way....Uni is cakewalk compared to this

For SAP specialists, they're quite rare actually. I can count the amount of locals good at SAP with 1 hand here in Brisbane. Plus you'd think that Geologists, Rock techs and Engineers are pretty common but Weatherford, Schlumberger and Halliburton have been bringing in people with 1 or 2 years post grad experience in on sponsored visas. I'm friends with quite a few of these people

There is no uni course for SAP and due to the cost of training, it's much easier to just poach people from overseas sometimes who have already been trained. Much like how professional drilling, fraccing and secondary recovery courses only entail 2 weeks of formal training and 2 years of field experience, but pay absurd amounts of money.

SAP people generally have to be quite strong in the math department as programming data and trending analysis in SAP requires pretty in depth math especially when it comes to statistics and customer requirements for interpretation. Some may opt to use a "package" but most big clients will opt for custom functions. Nothing harder than 2 year uni math at least, but still out of general IT boundaries.

Plus your math isn't like computer math Example of low level comp math: You can the answer of 4x4 via 2 ways, MUL or using ADD the number "4" 3 times, but if you're going to use add 3 times, you might need more cycles and branches, but if your architecture is RISC based, it might be a better solution. Then you still have to calculate the amount of cache hits and probabilities going back to the memory and so on.

Age and general experience are moot in some industries. She's lucky she chose a good field. I'm unlucky because I didn't choose to do CSWIP and earn 1000 AUD a day with 1 year of working experience. When I was a kid I thought a BEng would bring in a shit load of money. Silly me

Yeah. A BEng brings a decent wage, but why drive a Proton when you can drive a Lambo?

1000 a day is a very conservative figure as that's what QGC's contractors Theiss and Eneflex pay their guys, even more so if they have a radiation license for both gamma and neutron sources. Not only do they get paid well, if they f*** up, they can take a stab at being The Hulk

Reality bites. Hard. I just wish I knew all of this earlier so I didn't waste so many years of my life chasing tertiary qualifications that would amount to little.

Should have done Petrol Eng or even better Mining Eng. 100k fresh grad money. Not bad at all.

But the reality is that you study for 4 years, then come out to the market and realize that you make less than half of what a welding inspector, telemetry/instro tech or driller make and they're still younger than you. It isn't like overburden drilling or kill sheets are rocket science, but people get paid a lot for it.