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Immigrating with IT

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  • 17-09-2008 5:07pm
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    layke
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    Hi folks,

    Perhaps some one can help me here regarding getting a residency visa in Aus. I'm currently living there on a 1 year working Visa but I think I want to stay longer or perminantly. All I hear on the radio is a severe lack of skilled IT professionals so I think I may be in with a chance.

    I have a few questions :

    Do I have to sit an assesment exam?
    If so has anyone done it (details what it's like)?

    Do I have to leave the country first to apply for it?

    Thanks.


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    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    layke wrote: »
    Hi folks,

    Perhaps some one can help me here regarding getting a residency visa in Aus. I'm currently living there on a 1 year working Visa but I think I want to stay longer or perminantly. All I hear on the radio is a severe lack of skilled IT professionals so I think I may be in with a chance.

    I have a few questions :

    Do I have to sit an assesment exam?
    If so has anyone done it (details what it's like)?

    Do I have to leave the country first to apply for it?

    Thanks.

    You have to be assessed by the ACS, and if they pass your skills you can then apply. This is usually done off shore

    Most people here(as in the forum) tend to try for the sponsorship route find a company who likes you and ask them to sponsor you to stay.


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    hussey
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    layke wrote: »
    Hi folks,
    Do I have to sit an assesment exam?
    If so has anyone done it (details what it's like)?
    Do I have to leave the country first to apply for it?

    Not an exam, but as the poster above said skills assessed, this is likely to be certified your past work experience and Uni degrees etc.
    Do I have to leave the country first to apply for it?

    No, but you will have to leave the country to receive it (commonly known as a Visa run).

    Please note it can take up to 6-12 months to apply and successfully obtain this visa.


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    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    hussey wrote: »
    Please note it can take up to 6-12 months to apply and successfully obtain this visa.

    And then some ...but it should be quicker now its more online:p


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    layke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭layke


    Thanks guys, you are awesome!

    Looks like I'll have to get references from all my old workplaces :)
    I'm actually so relieved I don't have to do a test. I was wondering how they would test someone in a specialist role.

    Well I might as well do up a thread involving costs and what I had to go through to get it.


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    BraziliaNZ
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    Do you really think there is a shortage of IT staff here? It doesn't seem that way...


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    JWAD
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    You are emigrating. Not immigrating.
    Here endeth my pedantry :D


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    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Do you really think there is a shortage of IT staff here? It doesn't seem that way...


    Where are you? In oz like


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    Coileach dearg
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Do you really think there is a shortage of IT staff here? It doesn't seem that way...

    There may not be a shortage of IT staff here but there sure as sh!t is a shortage of IT staff who can communicate properly. Honest to god it takes me half the day trying to decrypt some of the emails I get and when I call up the culprit it's no better!


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    BraziliaNZ
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    Zambia232 wrote: »
    Where are you? In oz like

    In Perth yes. The IT job market here is REALLY slow, slower than any other city I've ever lived in. Even Wellington and Auckland had tonnes and tonnes more jobs in IT than here. I don't know why it's so slow here, it's weird. Melbourne was a lot easier though.


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    Feelgood
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    In Perth yes. The IT job market here is REALLY slow, slower than any other city I've ever lived in. Even Wellington and Auckland had tonnes and tonnes more jobs in IT than here. I don't know why it's so slow here, it's weird. Melbourne was a lot easier though.

    Would it not depend on your skills also?.

    Like maybe there are feckall jobs for Microsoft specialists, but loads for Cisco specialists etc?.


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    BraziliaNZ
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    well, all areas seem to be slow, check out seek.com.au, they add nowhere near as many jobs here every day as they do in the other cities, from what I can see


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    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    well, all areas seem to be slow, check out seek.com.au, they add nowhere near as many jobs here every day as they do in the other cities, from what I can see

    I think once you leave the large CBD's your IT skills are a bit re-dundant.

    Oh well back to sheep sheering :o


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    BarryCreed
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    seems to be quite a lot of technical writing jobs in Perth (good news for me, but not sure if a WHV would swing me one...)


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    #15
    Farls
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    I just spent some time in Oz and searched Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney for IT work ( I work as a Support Analyst or Java Dev contract ) and whilst there seemed to be lots of work this was not the case. I quickly packed up and moved on. Far more work and a lot better money to be made in Ireland/England.

    One of the recruitment companies I talked to said that the market is really slowing up in Oz of late and is only going to get worse. Don't let me put you off though, a friend of mine who does testing walked into a job in Brisbane and another in Perth so maybe I just had a bad experience but it seems slow from where I sat!


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    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    Farls wrote: »
    I just spent some time in Oz and searched Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney for IT work ( I work as a Support Analyst or Java Dev contract ) and whilst there seemed to be lots of work this was not the case. I quickly packed up and moved on. Far more work and a lot better money to be made in Ireland/England.

    One of the recruitment companies I talked to said that the market is really slowing up in Oz of late and is only going to get worse. Don't let me put you off though, a friend of mine who does testing walked into a job in Brisbane and another in Perth so maybe I just had a bad experience but it seems slow from where I sat!


    That would not worry me every day I threaten to throw my laptop in the Lagan...


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