I'm not sure, maybe VIC or SA.

May i know which places are easy to get a job?

How about petrol station? Restaurant?
Retail?

Since the skilled migration visa is by invitation only now, I don't think that you'd be so inexperienced when you get it that you'll have to resort to working at gas stations or Chinatown restaurants to survive.

You need to gain Australian work experience in a professional field obviously, but putting waiter in a chinatown restaurant in your resume might not help much

How abt those fruit plucking jobs in OZ/NZ? What would be the requirements? Saw a few ads for that a lot these days.

Just wanna ask, if I have a few relatives in Aussie, could they boost up my chances of getting a visa there? Am planning to go there to do my Masters as well, maybe becoming a part-time lecturer, not to sure if they have skill migration visa for lecturers? As far as I saw, its only teachers....

I submitted late 2011 and got approval in ~7 months. Most are slower than this. Some are faster. It's a lot harder to get PR nowadays though.

decision ready? 

there are 2 types of processing. one is priority and another is non-priority. priority = will skip to most demand job and process the application first. non-priority = applicant need to wait on the queue based on the date they submitted

ok so you were talking about ENS aka work sponsorship. i thought it was independent PR

Dealing with australians make me go nuts, forget abt working in there

yes if i don't have alternate way. earn all the money here and be a boss in msia

Lucky you! salary increment every 6 months.  Are you planning to go back to Msia eventually? Where are you base?

half yearly performance review is common but salary review half yearly is not really common, normally is yearly increment. I am not in the education section, never know there is such a law. It is a good policy though, taking care of the employees.

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Added on September 22, 2012, 10:39 pm

I am based in Sydney. I am only having yearly increment. however, the increment really cannot catch up with the inflation/cost of living in Sydney. It is getting out of hands. 

thanks for this!

i think that will be shorten by half due to i will bring my family : wife + 2 kids ? 

is it happen that employeer hire someone with tourist visa? i meant the normal shop like fast food, petrol station and such.

can advise the best route to stay there, working and such? applying PR while there might help is it?

thanks

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Added on November 1, 2012, 6:31 pmjust read that we can apply for WHV. nice.

check with a migration agent 1st b4 u do anything. migration agents in KL provides FREE assessment of your qualification b4 submitting your application.

working on a tourist visa is very risky, even when u r in outskirt doing farming etc. even when u say that it's recommended by so and so, it still sound pretty shady to me. there are ppl who get cheated & left stranded in the middle of nowhere - worst if that "nowhere" is in the outback!

i've been there and back, and RM100k is a lot, much more that what i brought, for 2adults & 1kid. depending on which state u r planning to go, u can still plan to make your money last longer. u may not have a full time job, so casual jobs may be your answer. my family sometimes survived on distributing catalgues and newspapers. it's not as easy as it sounds, and u don't really earn that much. we can barely cover rent. electrical bills & water bills that comes every 3mths will send shock waves into our bank accounts. for the whole 18 mths we were there, all our food money came from our savings we brought from RM. not to mentioned about other things like health insurance, daycare etc

hiring for australians even at fast food joints and supermarkets are still difficult to get in. even when u have a valid visa they'll tell u things like u don't have local experience, or relevant experience, or they'll interview u and simply say u r not suitable. the reason behind those is that they prefer to hire ppl that they know, friend of friends or something like that. it's NOT racist (from where i was, although i understand that certain parts of aust racism is still very much alive). but most australians have rised above that. australians generally are very kind to migrant, especially if they know u r well behaved civilised ppl.

but when come to hiring, it's mostly about who u know rather than what u know. their reason - it's easy to hire but not fire. and problematic staffs are huge problems in aust. one japan car manufactuer ceo once said thier daily absentesim rate is 30%... i.e. everyday, every 10 employees you paid, only 7 turn up for work.. so many car manufacturers had shut their oz factories in recent years due to high cost

haha, my visa group is a pretty "famous" one - 475
not to be confused with 457 which is employer sponsored
475 - is a independent provisional skilled visa
meaning that they give u a visa because u have they skilled required by certain states, which are categorised as "regional". visa lasts for 3 yrs, during which no financial assistance (something like american's social securities, this is known as centrelink), for the whole period.

why i came back? - i simply ran out of money.
but it was a great experience, i really enjoy living there. ppl are very warm, fresh food are great. at least i wasn't eating cheap china carrots and cabbages.

why didn't i fight to stay on? - unlike many who went, getting an australian citizenship was never in my agenda.

why did i went in the first place? - i was a burnt out professional going thru a quarter life crisis. migrating to australia for 18mths was like a gap year i never had. i gave me time to think about what i want in life, instead of going-with-the-flow like everyone else i.e. graduate, get a job, get a car, get a house, get married, have kids, have more kids, retire, look after grand kids and then wait for God to come collect me hahaha

but now i'm back i realised what passion i have in life and i may soon embark on a new and different career path.

being among the australians had also taught me that age is no barrier many things, like starting a new career or dating at 60yo! my neighbour was a 70yo-ish widow with a 70 bf who visits her everyday, and they look soooooo cute! once i even saw an old man with a tongkat, holding a small bunch of flower and a bag (literally d classic brown bag) of chocolates, and was walking towards the beach it was just sweet. i'm going to live life the best i can and never wait around, wasting my life away....

how about u?

Hi, anyone applied for 186 visa permanent before? I've just been offered a job in Australia O&g industry. The problem is its on a 457 visa. Read about the risk of 457 temporary visa..
Can anyone share some info on 186 visa? Do you think I can request or convince my prospective employer to sponsor me on this route?

Many thanks

Dear All,

Being applying pr now and just pending my wife and son's medical check. shall be doing it this week.
I'm quantity surveyor with 9 years experience and primary application.
Hopefully will get the visa granted before chinese new year so i could pack things up for moving forward. Will be heading perth for job hunting.
Any suggestion besides perth?