Baalu27

Hi Folks,

wanted to share few posts made by Educated immigrants below are urls's . Pls gothough and do homework before getin to OZ...

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/2933421.cms

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...33421.cms#top0

Bala.

Hutch

Two things occur to me - neither or which I intend to be contentious - just pointing them out.

1) They're articles about the job market in New Zealand, not Australia.
2) They're articles about well educated Indians not being able to find work which, the first article suggests, is partly down to "poor language skills". If I was an employer I wouldn't care how many qualifications you had, if you couldn't speak the local language.

furkew

I found this an excellent post.

it can apply to anybody moving down under IMO.

"Parag,Sydney,says:
Have you ever thought that one of the reason that highly qualified Indians do not get jobs in foreign countries (initially at least) is that 99.99% of Indians put in fake resumes (or overstate their achievements). The interviewer is mostly an HR guy who is infact trained to spot out these kind of "achievements" in any resumes. The candidate learns from his mistakes in a few months (and a few harrowing interviews) and once he rectifies this he will soon find himself in a position which would suit his qualifications. There are other reasons like adaptability being quite obvious. In Rome do as the Romans do. Which we don't. Hence a big NO is what we hear from the interviewer. They expect you to walk, talk, behave like them. Which takes time for us to adapt to. The day we start greeting them when we first meet for the interview (saying "I am good, thanks" instead of "fine" when asked "how are you?"), are able to carry on small talks like the football game over the weekend or the "lovely weather", we find that the interviewing process becomes very easy. How can I be so sure of these reasons? When I came to Australia in 2004 (with an Engineering degree and 10 years experience in IT), I went through hell for the first 8-9 months. I applied for 1100 (yes, 1100) jobs, went for 15 interviews (every interview had 2 or 3 sub-interviews) before getting my first break into the type of work I wanted. Infact when I came here I was more technically strong and had a better chance of getting a job straight away due to this but I got a job after 9 months of being away from hands-on working (which in the IT industry is a period when you actually start to forget your commands - literally). I went through a lot of introspection and went through a lot of feedback & this is what I learnt from my "mistakes". The journey after your first break is exactly opposite of your experiences initially. The ride is smoother thereafter and you have the ability to provide your previous Aussie employer as a referee for your next job. Well, there are always cases of "racisms" down the line. But we are humans and we have always been racists no matter where we are from & we can find millions of reasons to like or dislike the opposite person. The white people are not the only proponents of racism..."