Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
May 18th 2005, 12:01 pm
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Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
Got my flights booked 16/05/05
Arrive Sat AM
Going on a temp 5 year Visa
Employer has been great and has organised house , car and furniture.
Got it on a plate compared with some on here.
Looking to meet and greet all you Brissy Expats
Going to be living in Sunnybank Hills
Any tips will be greatly recieved
hope to get PR within the next two years
Arrive Sat AM
Going on a temp 5 year Visa
Employer has been great and has organised house , car and furniture.
Got it on a plate compared with some on here.
Looking to meet and greet all you Brissy Expats
Going to be living in Sunnybank Hills
Any tips will be greatly recieved
hope to get PR within the next two years
May 18th 2005, 12:45 pm
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
I presume you aren't flying out on 16/5/05 - else you've missed your flight!!!
Seriously though, I hope you all enjoy yourselves.
We are off to Brisbane on a 4 year visa on 19 June 2005 via Singapore for a few nights.
My employer too has been very helpful and paying for flights and accommodation for a couple of weeks when we arrive.
Do you too go through periods of panic?!
Seriously though, I hope you all enjoy yourselves.
We are off to Brisbane on a 4 year visa on 19 June 2005 via Singapore for a few nights.
My employer too has been very helpful and paying for flights and accommodation for a couple of weeks when we arrive.
Do you too go through periods of panic?!
May 18th 2005, 1:15 pm
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
Originally Posted by axl rose
I presume you aren't flying out on 16/5/05 - else you've missed your flight!!!
Seriously though, I hope you all enjoy yourselves.
We are off to Brisbane on a 4 year visa on 19 June 2005 via Singapore for a few nights.
My employer too has been very helpful and paying for flights and accommodation for a couple of weeks when we arrive.
Do you too go through periods of panic?!
Seriously though, I hope you all enjoy yourselves.
We are off to Brisbane on a 4 year visa on 19 June 2005 via Singapore for a few nights.
My employer too has been very helpful and paying for flights and accommodation for a couple of weeks when we arrive.
Do you too go through periods of panic?!
AND yes we do go through periods of panic
The level of panic depends on the problem of the day
Do we sell all our furniture or ship?
Do we sell the house or rent?
Do I really want to earn less money?
What is this " Better Quality of Life" that everyone talks about and will we get it!!
Will I enjoy footie with the Broncos??
etc etc
Must be mad
May 19th 2005, 2:40 am
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
Hi Gary
Like you we came over on a temp visa but for 2 years. My husbands employers who sponsered us were also brilliant! Paid for everything, visa appl, meds/x-rays, packers, flights, 6 wks apartment rental and 1 wk car rental on arrival good eh
They have also just spondered us, as promised in advance, for our P.R. visa, we paid for everything this time of course, but good news is we are now P.R. Visa holders This particular type of company sponsered visa only took a total of 33 days from lodging the appl to receiving phone call approving it - quick wasn't it! Went thru a bit of trauma in those few weeks, more info needed etc. but all ok in the end and really chuffed
Sure its not that quick for that type of visa for everyone, but we wish you luck and hope your employer supports you as my husbands have supported him when your time comes to lodge that PR application!
Have a good flight only a few week away now eh!
Cheers
Like you we came over on a temp visa but for 2 years. My husbands employers who sponsered us were also brilliant! Paid for everything, visa appl, meds/x-rays, packers, flights, 6 wks apartment rental and 1 wk car rental on arrival good eh
They have also just spondered us, as promised in advance, for our P.R. visa, we paid for everything this time of course, but good news is we are now P.R. Visa holders This particular type of company sponsered visa only took a total of 33 days from lodging the appl to receiving phone call approving it - quick wasn't it! Went thru a bit of trauma in those few weeks, more info needed etc. but all ok in the end and really chuffed Sure its not that quick for that type of visa for everyone, but we wish you luck and hope your employer supports you as my husbands have supported him when your time comes to lodge that PR application!
Have a good flight only a few week away now eh!
Cheers
May 19th 2005, 11:53 am
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
Originally Posted by GARY C
Got my flights booked 16/05/05
Arrive Sat AM
Going on a temp 5 year Visa
Employer has been great and has organised house , car and furniture.
Got it on a plate compared with some on here.
Looking to meet and greet all you Brissy Expats
Going to be living in Sunnybank Hills
Any tips will be greatly recieved
hope to get PR within the next two years
Arrive Sat AM
Going on a temp 5 year Visa
Employer has been great and has organised house , car and furniture.
Got it on a plate compared with some on here.
Looking to meet and greet all you Brissy Expats
Going to be living in Sunnybank Hills
Any tips will be greatly recieved
hope to get PR within the next two years
If there's anything inparticular that you want to know pm us and I'm sure we'll be able to help.
Regards,
R & S
May 19th 2005, 3:03 pm
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
All the best guys, wish it was us going. Where do you all work, and how did you go about getting employment from the UK any tips will be very appreciative!!!
May 20th 2005, 5:41 am
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
Originally Posted by Ian_H
All the best guys, wish it was us going. Where do you all work, and how did you go about getting employment from the UK any tips will be very appreciative!!!
Hi there!
What line of work are you in?
May 20th 2005, 6:00 am
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
Originally Posted by Bix da Boss
Hi there!
What line of work are you in?
What line of work are you in?
Hi, I am a computer engineer and my girlfriend is a social worker!! We are scouting the net for jobs in Oz, but would like tips on how to secure a job.
May 22nd 2005, 9:29 am
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
Originally Posted by Ian_H
Hi, I am a computer engineer and my girlfriend is a social worker!! We are scouting the net for jobs in Oz, but would like tips on how to secure a job.
Computer engineer and Social worker eh! Our two sons are both hoping to get jobs in IT. They dont know what area they want to specialise in yet though. We have been given different points of view re demand for IT jobs but in our opinion, it totally depends on where you live in Australia and the need for your speciality skills/qualifications etc. Comp Eng is a wide subject is it not? Social worker, one of our friends who has just arrived in Cairns is a qualified Social Worker, dont know what she has experienced in this neck of the woods - again depends on where you are heading! Sure there are other people on here who could help you.
No tips on how to secure a job - you just need to keep browsing the net, approach a company via that source or wait til you get here and then start to look!
Good luck wherever you end up m8
Hope you and our two sons find something
May 22nd 2005, 3:44 pm
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
[QUOTE=Bix]Computer engineer and Social worker eh! Our two sons are both hoping to get jobs in IT. They dont know what area they want to specialise in yet though. We have been given different points of view re demand for IT jobs but in our opinion, it totally depends on where you live in Australia and the need for your speciality skills/qualifications etc. Comp Eng is a wide subject is it not? Social worker, one of our friends who has just arrived in Cairns is a qualified Social Worker, dont know what she has experienced in this neck of the woods - again depends on where you are heading! Sure there are other people on here who could help you.
No tips on how to secure a job - you just need to keep browsing the net, approach a company via that source or wait til you get here and then start to look!
Good luck wherever you end up m8
Hi, we are heading for Brissie. Friends of ours have been there over two months now, and they have been keeping an eye out for us. There are quite a few computer jobs advetised. Your quite right computing is a broad area, and in demand so fingers crossed.
Not overly sure where Cairns is though, is it in the north brisbane? How are you finding it in oz, is it what you expected? We both have mixed feelings especially as neither of us have been there before.
Cheers
No tips on how to secure a job - you just need to keep browsing the net, approach a company via that source or wait til you get here and then start to look!
Good luck wherever you end up m8
Hi, we are heading for Brissie. Friends of ours have been there over two months now, and they have been keeping an eye out for us. There are quite a few computer jobs advetised. Your quite right computing is a broad area, and in demand so fingers crossed.
Not overly sure where Cairns is though, is it in the north brisbane? How are you finding it in oz, is it what you expected? We both have mixed feelings especially as neither of us have been there before.
Cheers
May 22nd 2005, 4:37 pm
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
good luck with your big move.
We are arriving next July (2006) and are looking at Calamvale to live in, this being the suburbs south of Sunnybank Hills.
I take it you have been before? Any info on Sunnybank and the suburbs around?
We are arriving next July (2006) and are looking at Calamvale to live in, this being the suburbs south of Sunnybank Hills.
I take it you have been before? Any info on Sunnybank and the suburbs around?
May 23rd 2005, 4:04 am
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Re: Brisbane bound/ Flights Booked
[QUOTE=Ian_H]
Hi again
Have sent you a PM
Gill
Originally Posted by Bix
Computer engineer and Social worker eh! Our two sons are both hoping to get jobs in IT. They dont know what area they want to specialise in yet though. We have been given different points of view re demand for IT jobs but in our opinion, it totally depends on where you live in Australia and the need for your speciality skills/qualifications etc. Comp Eng is a wide subject is it not? Social worker, one of our friends who has just arrived in Cairns is a qualified Social Worker, dont know what she has experienced in this neck of the woods - again depends on where you are heading! Sure there are other people on here who could help you.
No tips on how to secure a job - you just need to keep browsing the net, approach a company via that source or wait til you get here and then start to look!
Good luck wherever you end up m8
Hi, we are heading for Brissie. Friends of ours have been there over two months now, and they have been keeping an eye out for us. There are quite a few computer jobs advetised. Your quite right computing is a broad area, and in demand so fingers crossed.
Not overly sure where Cairns is though, is it in the north brisbane? How are you finding it in oz, is it what you expected? We both have mixed feelings especially as neither of us have been there before.
Cheers
No tips on how to secure a job - you just need to keep browsing the net, approach a company via that source or wait til you get here and then start to look!
Good luck wherever you end up m8
Hi, we are heading for Brissie. Friends of ours have been there over two months now, and they have been keeping an eye out for us. There are quite a few computer jobs advetised. Your quite right computing is a broad area, and in demand so fingers crossed.
Not overly sure where Cairns is though, is it in the north brisbane? How are you finding it in oz, is it what you expected? We both have mixed feelings especially as neither of us have been there before.
Cheers
Have sent you a PM
Gill
