Australian Perth

Emigrating To Australia : Finding Work

Finding work in Australia is the topic for this installment of our guide to emigrating to Australia…

How easy it’ll be to get a job in Australia depends primarily on your qualifications, work experience and flexibility, with your nationality (i.e. not being an Australian citizen) not being a barrier to your success.

Different parts of Australia offer better job prospects in certain industries than other, so you’ll need to research where your particular qualifications and experience are in demand. Broadly speaking, Sydney is best for finance, Melbourne and Adelaide for manufacturing, and Perth for resources. The big cities tend to have very competitive employment markets though, and you may find that you initially have to take work in one of the provinces.

How much value Australian employers place on your qualifications, certificates and references varies from one to another, but you should expect them to not regard them as highly as an employer in your home country would as they’ll probably be unfamiliar with the institutes that issued them. Ones acquired from Australian institutes are generally given preference so be prepared to convert or top-up what you already have if you’re planning on a long-term career in an industry in which they’re particularly valued. 

Similarly, the experience you’ve gained from working outside of Australia won’t be viewed in the same way as if you’d spent that time working within Australia. There isn’t anything underhand about this, it’s just that employers would rather employ people who have worked for companies that they’ve heard of rather than obscure ones from another country. That’s not to say that your past work experience is irrelevant, it’s not at all, it’s just that you’ll be at a disadvantage when applying for jobs that people with in-country experience are also applying for. Therefore, you should be prepared to have to accept lesser jobs (in terms of skills required and pay) until you build up some local experience.

Life In Australia: Perth

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The Race of the Century: The Official Story of Australia’s Controversial 1983 America’s Cup Win From 1851 to 1983, the world’s greatest yachting trophy was held in the tight grasp of the New York Yacht Club. The spectacular victory of Australia II over Liberty in a sensational final race in 1983 smashed America’s 132-year grip on the Cup. The win was shrouded in controversy over Australia II’s unorthodox “winged keel,” a dispute that still echoes as American entries try to retake the Cup in …

Joan Sutherland (Western Australian Opera Company, Perth Concert Hall, 1982) Recording of Joan Sutherland’s performance of the Western Australian Opera Company at the Perth Concert Hall on March 9, 1982. Accompanied by Richard Bonynge….

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A Cry in the Dark $9.09 Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Elaine on Seinfeld once offered a non sequitur at a party just to relieve her own boredom: “The dingo ate your baby,” she blurted in a bad Australian accent. It was a reference to this harrowing film by director Fred Schepisi, based on a true story. Meryl Streep and Sam Neill play a married couple on a camping trip whose baby disappears. Streep maintains that the baby was car…

Ben Folds and Waso: Live in Perth $7.16 Collaborations between rock or pop performers and symphony orchestras usually yield little more than bombast and redundancy, but Ben Folds’ Live in Perth is a delightful exception. Recorded in 2005 in an outdoor venue (described by Folds as “a luminous green petri dish”) in that Australian city, the 80-minute concert finds the singer-songwriter-pianist in the company of conductor Simon Kenway and …