Oz job market is bad huh?

Thanks for this info!

This is really the question, isn't it?
Another thing is that Aus allows foreign Aus grads up to 2 years to work there. Strange that. Since the job market is rather bleak at the moment?

Since you have such a great career in malaysia, suggest you better don't come to Oz. Migration may be good to some but not all. My good friend at 1st wanted to migrate here but he has huge business in hand with few big house and nice car. Got time to play golf. Simply earning his own salary at 20k (after deduct all company expenses; wife working other business somemore) I told him to stay in malaysia for time being coz if he sell off everything just to come over might not appropriate. I would say Oz is good for employee providing with a good job and good pay but not good for bosses as tax killing. Every employees got minimum wages need to settle.
He's pretty lucky not in West malaysia but in East so no traffic issue.

Just lodged my PR and paid the fees for me wife and kid, awaiting grant soon.

By the way the new list is out, and no occupations removed also some added as chef, brik layer, wall and floor tiler plus a few others.

same with the CSOL list by states. those intending should give it a try as there could be an increase in visa fees.

By the way i didnt use an agent just followed the instructions by the Aus Immi website, started process in dec 13 and now june 14 expecting PR.

Anyone need some guidence willing to help ...just post them questions here

You already got PR?

Thanks guys. The average waiting time after lodgement ranges from 3 to 6 months. All my documents were front-loaded (inclusive of medical), hoping for a direct grant.

I have applied under 221213 External Auditor with sponsorship from Queensland.

SAP consultant in Australia is pretty rare especially for those high experienced. Not many companies willing to pay that high salary for SAP consultant and job market also quite low too. I went through Seek few times and quite often see the employers looking for SAP related job with willing to provide sponsorship

What kinda complication in your online application you're referring to? Are both systems linked? When I lodge my application, I am still required to key in my HAP ID manually.

Is that really very tough to get working visa sponsored? Yes, I think my case is very lucky but I never think of migration at this age, was thinking to migrate few years later after 30 years old. So it is a bit sudden for me.

Actually it is quite technical.

So the SOL list never really changed?

Would you be able to proceed if the HAP ID field been left blank? Could be a bug though.

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 

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.

Well, this is usually the month where you go all mad with receipts. Claim everything mang.

I'm doing the same here and aiming to compile all my logbooks and receipts for an August return.
Even Petro eng is a bit of a hit or miss. The money is in reservoir modelling, cementing, completions and so on. If you happen to be just a normal project eng or a production eng, it's highly likely you won't be making outrageous money.

Instrumentation is a simple job. Pays about a grand a day. As long as you know up to hook up a few wires and run a Beamex MC60 calibrator, which isn't rocket science, you get paid. But you must be certified and licensed. Same with EEHA technicians, electrical inspectors and so on. All don't need a degree.

Wouldn't say its high risk. Nobody has actually died in the industry this past financial year.

Well in a sense a lot of degrees are like that. But I guess even worst grad petroleum eng job is still better paying that the best of many fields. I guess industry exposure has changed my view on tertiary education.

TBH my mother wanted me to do actuarial science like you. I was like fark no I'm shit at mathematics, I'll do engineering, sounds cool and has no mathematics.

I wasn't the brightest kid at age 18 

Well, I kept hearing that actuarial pays well, but I can't keep my fingers still for more than 10 minutes. Thus an office position was never suited to my temperament. But I've always toyed with the idea of doing econs or finance for the heck of it.

To say that Eng students lack math is a tad off the target. Most eng students will the equivalent of a year 2 math major if you follow UQ's structure. The difference is the eng math is focused. A EnE will never learn about chaotic/dynamical mathematics, electricity for all means and purposes is predictable. But a mechanical will never do complex and nodal analysis. And so on. 

Either way, glad I don't have to do it these days. We'll let the egg heads with PhDs figure that crap out

Yes, I think living expenses in Sydney is really high especially when I look at the accommodation and public transport is not cheap. That's why I was confused..

If you want to finish work on the dot, there's no place like oil and gas. Working the field for more than your allowed time is grounds for dismissal due to safety

In my old workplace I used to do 8 to 3 lol. Days off were whenever you bloody wanted em. Most times the boss would say fark it, we won't take it out of your annual.

I particularly enjoy the culture where I can go out for a coffee in the morning and afternoon, and nip to the gym in the afternoon, and have some flexibility with my work hours.

That said, overall I work longer hours as I'm still responding to emails etc when I'm outside the office.  It's not an issue though as I have controls over my time so it's not stressful,even if I have to do that. 

It's one aspect of Australia that I really enjoy compared to UK.

It is a landlord's market out there. But they're saying it will soften by mid next year as housing prices soften and it starts becoming an investor's market again.

How's the work anyway?

Hello,

Is that really hard to rent a place in Sydney?

I need to rent a room in Sydney as well..

if cars are cheap, the why do I see people there driving small cars? instead of BMWs?

what about financing? They don't use HP right? They go by leases? Are the instalments more hefty and discourage buyers from buying luxury cars?

6 months lease will always be more expensive than 12 month because u are locked in to the contract for a longer period with the 12 month....

think because salary is counted by fortnightly so more convenient to use the same....