Trying to secure a job over the internet is a waste of time because you’re a migrant with no LOCAL experience or LOCAL REFERENCES. As an engineer with a masters degree I thought I’d just walk into a job – no such luck.

Employers here in Australia want to be able to see and touch the candidate or have the ability to ask some local previous employer about you. They also want to throw some skills tests at you – something which isn’t always practical over the internet.

Bottom line is this. Companies here in Australia are very fair – they’ll take anybody who proves that they can do the job. It helps to be down under!

As for your husband skills, I know that as a developer myself, C# is in demand and Sharepoint is starting to appear on the wanted skills lists. Chuck the CV out the window and write a well formed RESUME. A couple differences that sometimes aggravate employment agencies. Always send a resume in an editable format – never PDF or some other strange format. Be short and sweet to the point.

Hope this helps!

How are you today?

Why is it so difficult to get a job over the internet? The jobs get advertised, and we apply, but no response. My husband is a software developer, no degree but long years experience. Will it be better to hop on a plane, go over and go for interviews then? Hubby’s brother is living in Oz and is very happy, says he’ll never come back to SA. We also want to live and work in Australia.

He is a specialist in Workflow, C#, Sharepoint, BizTalk, K2Blackpearl, .Net, VB.net

Please HELP !!
Have a good day
Regards
Elsabe