Hi everyone, just finished read through the entire thread.

I am an engineering graduate from a Malaysia Private University B.E degree with 2 years of working experience (1 year technical, 1 year business development).

From what I read is that the best way to obtain a job in Australia is getting a visa/PR which doesn't comply to my current situation.

I'm wondering if getting a work & holiday visa that able to land me a minimum wages work (picking apple) for few months while trying to apply for local engineering job in SOL list will increase my chance of getting hired and visa sponsored by local employer?

In fact I've been applying jobs in Singapore over the past few months but up till now there is no feedback from their side so I might wanna directly try to jump over to Australia.

**I'm planning to move over to SG for few years before heading over to Australia previously as I know the best points I could get is within age 25~32, and I'm currently 24 only.

TL;DR: will getting a work & holiday visa for a job in OZ increase my chance of getting me permanently hired in Australia tremendously? Or is it better to get more working experience in Malaysia/SG before trying to apply for a full time job in OZ will result me a higher chance of success?

Edit: also how big of a chance for employer to sponsor for my 189/190 visa if I'm working there? Do I have to be bonded for few years with the company in normal circumstances?

This post has been edited by LovelyPotato: Apr 4 2016, 01:52 PM

I got my appointment for work and travel visa Australia 2017-2018, most probably will have no issue scoring my visa if I lodge my documents correctly.

The visa imposed a limitation of a maximum of 6 months working period with a single employer, I'm looking for company that are hiring contract position in my field and hopefully they'll be able to sponsor me with a full visa if I'm able to do a great job. Not sure what are my chances of scoring a job with my experience in Data/Business Analytics in Australia.

Have to see how it goes next year, can't wait to be shifting to Australia even if it's only for a year if I couldn't end up scoring a sponsored visa.

This post has been edited by LovelyPotato: Jun 28 2017, 04:05 PM

Got my Working Holiday Visa (Subclass 462), will be moving over to Melbourne next year for a year of experience. Any tips and tricks for job hunt?

I have about 3 years of experience in data analysis, currently spamming my job applications on indeed.au, seek.au and LinkedIn. Worst come to worst I'll be finding those odd jobs for a couple of months so that I can interview there for at least one contract role in my industry.