Hallo Zusammen,
Wollte die folgende Informationen mit euch mal teilen und für die Leute, welche nach Australien auswandern möchten. Ich habe einen Recruiter folgendes gefragt:
Hi xxx, I would like know how are the IT labor market in Australia at the moment? It is difficult to get a sponsorship?
Folgende Antwort habe ich gekriegt:
In my experience, the main problems that prospective employers raise relate to time and money.
It's an expensive exercise to sponsor an applicant who doesn't already have the right to work in Australia. And in some cases, you have to struggle on without them for up to 15 months, or maybe more, while their visa applications are being finalised.
If you sponsor them for permanent residence, it can take up to 8 months for their visa to be approved after they've had their skills assessed which can often take around 3 months in itself. And the fees aren't cheap.
If you sponsor them under a subclass 457, it only takes a week or so to get things finalised, if the application is decision-ready, but the employer has to pay most, if not all of the costs of the visa application, has to pay all sponsorship and nomination costs and even has to commit to paying for the visa applicant and any secondary applicants' airfares home under certain circumstances. They also have to meet training requirements which cost up to 2% of their entire payroll.
If you offer a job to an overseas applicant, but don't sponsor them, it can take around 9 months for state sponsored applicants to get their visa and around 15 months for independent visa applicants to emigrate under the skilled migration program. And that's the best case scenario for those two visa subclasses under SkillSelect.
So as you can see, there are a lot of considerations that employers have to address if they wish to employ someone who does not have Australian work rights.
Please note, this response is not meant to be detailed, and there's a lot more involved than the few paragraphs I've written above. I just thought that explaining the situation from an employer's viewpoint might help to clarify why it's difficult to find a job here if you don't already have the right to work in Australia.
The problem is, they do need IT people there, its true, but they only need the top, only the best, with the best certificates and best experience. As you saw, Susan explained its quite a painful process. And the only way a company will go through it, is if they really need you and their project depends on you. The chances for that start around 0.2% and raise as you get higher industry certifications, more experience etc.
Australia at the moment is in the top 10 if not top 5 countries to live/work, and they have introduced a system ( latest EOI ) that is really air tight, and only the best and the top quality will enter. The very first question an immigration will ask a company when they want to hire someone from out of AU is: Why him/her? Why not any of the thousands of unemployed in Australia?
Darum überlegt es euch ganz genau wegen einer Auswanderung und wenn ja dann nur mit PR!!!!