Looking to move...is work getting slack?

mkano24

Hi im looking to move to australia in september,
Im a qualified panel beater/spray painter....
i also have numerous welding certificates,
Ive been hearing stories about it being hard to find work over there now and am getting a few doubts about leaving.
Anybody here have any real advice for me would be appreciated thanks!

audman

mkano24 wrote: »

Hi im looking to move to australia in september,
Im a qualified panel beater/spray painter....
i also have numerous welding certificates,
Ive been hearing stories about it being hard to find work over there now and am getting a few doubts about leaving.
Anybody here have any real advice for me would be appreciated thanks!

One of my close friends moved there recently and apparently there's a lot of work going there at the moment for panel painters and spray beaters. Wouldn't be too sure about panel beaters and spray painters though to be honest. I'll ask him when I'm in touch with him again and get back to you ASAP

Zambia

audman wrote: »

One of my close friends moved there recently and apparently there's a lot of work going there at the moment for panel painters and spray beaters. Wouldn't be too sure about panel beaters and spray painters though to be honest. I'll ask him when I'm in touch with him again and get back to you ASAP

WTF ?

daftdave

audman wrote: »

One of my close friends moved there recently and apparently there's a lot of work going there at the moment for panel painters and spray beaters. Wouldn't be too sure about panel beaters and spray painters though to be honest. I'll ask him when I'm in touch with him again and get back to you ASAP

maybe you might need to stop smoking weed dude !!.

mkano24

any serious advice?!?

oz2013

'm in Melbourne, I'm in the same trade and have found work very easily. Get onto carcorp.com.au. They are a recruitment agency that will find you work. Drop them an email and you will never know. Another agency is konnecting.com.au but I have never used them. Best of luck!

Oregano_State

oz2013 wrote: »

'm in Melbourne, I'm in the same trade and have found work very easily. Get onto carcorp.com.au. They are a recruitment agency that will find you work. Drop them an email and you will never know. Another agency is konnecting.com.au but I have never used them. Best of luck!

Couldn't resist.

rightyabe

mkano24 wrote: »

any serious advice?!?

Yeah good job prospects in that line of work here in perth. Mostly to do with them being sh1t drivers..;-)

mkano24

a ya thats good i was getting a bit worried for a bit, ideally i would like to go into the mines but i reckon theres slim chance of that at moment...

aido79

mkano24 wrote: »

a ya thats good i was getting a bit worried for a bit, ideally i would like to go into the mines but i reckon theres slim chance of that at moment...

There are no jobs in the mines for panel beaters/spraypainters. The chances of someone damaging a vehicle are very slim and even if it did happen they probably wouldn't fix it.

mkano24

aido79 wrote: »

There are no jobs in the mines for panel beaters/spraypainters. The chances of someone damaging a vehicle are very slim and even if it did happen they probably wouldn't fix it.

For welding not panel beating...

mandrake04

mkano24 wrote: »

For welding not panel beating...

Do you have a Permanent Residency visa?

mkano24

mandrake04 wrote: »

Do you have a Permanent Residency visa?

no ill just be getting the whv....why?

GalwayKiefer

mkano24 wrote: »

no ill just be getting the whv....why?

Very hard to get into the mines without residency. Not impossible but very difficult. You need to have something they really want.

mkano24

GalwayKiefer wrote: »

Very hard to get into the mines without residency. Not impossible but very difficult. You need to have something they really want.

thats sound i have no problem working at anything really as long as the rewards are there....there seems to be alot of people struggling to find work but the more i hear the more it sounds like they have no experience or qualifications...

Batgurl

You coming over purely for a year or two or looking for more?

Sponsorship has just become a much harder option.

Work is definitely slowing down but I think the transient nature of trade work should make it easier for you to pick up something here and there.

mkano24

for now im just looking for a year or 2...my sister is a residant over in perth so i think i could get sponserd from her if i needed to?

Batgurl

mkano24 wrote: »

for now im just looking for a year or 2...my sister is a residant over in perth so i think i could get sponserd from her if i needed to?

No you can't. All she can do is provide you with 5 extra points if you decide to apply for PR which is a lengthy and costly process.

mkano24

ill jus go over and see what happens....worst case i dnt get work and come home!

ifeelill

The unemployment rate over there is 5.6%, during "the good times" here unemployment bounced around between 3.8% - 5% this was considered to be full employment. Now Ireland's unemployment its at 13.8% and according to the news article the real unemployment rate is at 24%. So i ask is 5.6% worse ?

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/forget-parttime-jobs-real-unemployment-rate-is-24pc-says-imf-29358808.html

mkano24

thanks that puts things into perspective...

Pinny_1

Loads of work for panel beaters lad. Im a mechanic myself and thers much more work for panel/ spraying in both cities and countryside.

As for welding in mines they want trade qualified welders only. Very hard to get into

mkano24

Pinny_1 wrote: »

Loads of work for panel beaters lad. Im a mechanic myself and thers much more work for panel/ spraying in both cities and countryside.

As for welding in mines they want trade qualified welders only. Very hard to get into

Sounds good! What part you in?

Pinny_1

mkano24 wrote: »

Sounds good! What part you in?

Im in NSW near city of Dubbo.
Gumtree seems ok for some jobs. Seek.com.au is v good

mkano24

Pinny_1 wrote: »

Im in NSW near city of Dubbo.
Gumtree seems ok for some jobs. Seek.com.au is v good

Ya ive been on it a good bit lately some amount of jobs on it! Im a little less worried about going now!

ifeelill

I wouldn't expect a mine job too easy, might be a different story if your occupation is on the 1st schedule of the SQL

mkano24

ifeelill wrote: »

I wouldn't expect a mine job too easy, might be a different story if your occupation is on the 1st schedule of the SQL[/quotet

To be honest I dont really expect to get into the mines.... Seems to be pretty difficult