Almost everyone that I know who wants to get a job in Australia (or NZ) have it very hard.

If you are one of those lucky ones who got a good job with a good pay in Aus then good for you. But the majority isn't like that. My family has migrated over there and almost all of our family friends that we know aren't able to get a decent job.

First of all, you have to be prepared to be downgraded. We know someone who is a top marketing director here and the only job she could find was photostating documents in the council, her whole family is a PR before she started to look for a job. Some of my family friends in Malaysia have their children studying in Aus and want them to get a job there in hopes that they'll get a PR. One of the son calls back and tell the mom that he's working 'like a foreign worker in Malaysia' in Australia - helping to unload trucks at hypermarkets. That was the only job he could find, well at least that's a job. Another friend's daughter has been studying there for years cause she can't find a job, now she's taking another course for early child development or something which will involve lots of practical on-site work, so she hopes she can get a job with this qualification and local experiences in the future.

Just sharing some of the family get-together stories I always come across.

I'm sorry if I don't have a published journal article to backup these 'stories' since it's all based on experiences. It's up to them to believe it.

Just remember another one of my family friend who was Singaporean and migrated to NZ (not Aus) over 10 years ago. Their daughter studied in NZ and graduated as a speech therapist. Unable to find a job for over a year now and is considering going back to Singapore to get a job. The parents feel kinda disappointed as they gave up everything to go over there in search for a better life and now the daughter has to go back to their home country to get a job.