willywh3r3

Hi,

Does anyone know (links, pointers, etc.) the type of jobs available in Australia? IT = ??%, Finance = ??%, Service Industry = ??%, Manufacturing = ??%, Agriculture = ??%

And its contribution to the economy?

Some countries have oil resources that contributes majority of the GDP like Bruney. How about Australia? Is it mainly human resource as the major economic drive or something else (agriculture)?

Rgrds,
Wil

pommie bastard

Australia is a primary producer.ie export food and minerals then end up buying back finished products that have value added.This is great for a third world country but not so hot for first so this place just about falls into the second rate .
The whole country relies on the building trade in order to keep the majority employed, one man and his ute seems to be the way to go and dont forget to put a blue heeler in the back keeps guard on your tools.Other main employer is the state an federal goverments plus councils , a land of the free and free loader 65% of people feed off public jobs and public works.Then you down to mining in crap places plus farming so that about sums it up .

Robert Edwards

Well that far from sums it up........Tourism with approximately 4 million visitors
per annum is now the third highest earner and contributor to the economy, the motor
vehicle and motor vehicle parts industry are now major earners especially to the
Middle East where a majority of the Chevrolets you see there are made in Australia by
General Motors Holden and badged as Chevs, Education is another major earner now with
approximately 120,000 Student Visas granted to Overseas students in 2002 alone many
of whom have approval to bring family members which creates an additional spin-off
for the community and income of the Country, there are also to a lesser degree major
international research organizations such as the CSIRO which produces and licences
it's products both in Australia and Overseas.....so there is much more to Australia
than the disjointed viewpoint of the "whole country relying on the building trade to
keep the majority employed" this is quite clearly false and misleading.

Rob Edwards
www.australianaustralia.com.au


"pommie bastard" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    > Australia is a primary producer.ie export food and minerals then end up buying back
    > finished products that have value added.This is great for a third world country but
    > not so hot for first so this place just about falls into the second rate . The
    > whole country relies on the building trade in order to keep the majority employed,
    > one man and his ute seems to be the way to go and dont forget to put a blue heeler
    > in the back keeps guard on your tools.Other main employer is the state an federal
    > goverments plus councils , a land of the free and free loader 65% of people feed
    > off public jobs and public works.Then you down to mining in crap places plus
    > farming so that about sums it up .
    > --
    > Posted via http://britishexpats.com

pommie bastard

Any type of manufacturing here is small scale , Australia stands 24th in the world on exports , UK is 4th and second on finiancial services.When it comes to tourism 22million visit UK,this country is one third of size of UK population wise .
In order to stop this place coming to a stand still little Johnny Howard had to give $14000 grants on new homes being built,bit of a con because all that and more taken is back in GST.Open the phone book here there is a goverment dept for everything you think of and more ,some doubled up one state and one federal , lucky for the unemployable but tax wise not so great.Buy or sell a car new or second hand , stamp duty rears its ugly head the present rate is also 3% on a house .Employers have worst deal compo insurance and other taxes make employing someone very exspensive ,lots of jobs are on contract makes loaning money wee bit harder.
Why do the dreamers defend this country and only compare to UK anyone leaving UK could do far better than , here look around and see where your employment is most sort after,any Australian with a brain cell still working gets up and finds better jobs in Europe and America.

Misterbean

Hello C Reyes.. Of course all you read is true - in some shape or form - For some IT
jobs there would be huge numbers of applicants - probably most from people already
employed hoping to improve their wage or status. And some jobs would have very few
applicants. My wife is an unqualified but self taught 'web developer' and is pretty
clever - though her English language is probably 80% fluent. She got work through a
Staff Agency and on about her third posting has been 'kept' by an Institute who are
'making' her permanent on about a 40k package. Believe there are some IT areas where
the Market is absolutely flooded with highly qualified and expensive talent. Also
believe that if some of these people would work in 'lateral' areas they would have no
work problems. It's rather trite to suggest that some people are too proud to take
work 'below' their ""standards''. Much IT work is on term contract at great payment
rates though the difficulty would certainly be establishing continuity. Everything is
logically smaller here than Europe or USA - though the breadth of tasks is still
equally wide - think people with more diverse skills will fare better particularly if
they approach managerships. Despite our equal opportunity laws in Employment - as
regards Age I still perceive there is an inclination to give large preference to the
younger applicants though some of this policies shortcomings are starting to erode
this - experienced outlooks and business 'savvy' are counting for more nowadays and
the gloss of youth is no longer the 'open sesame' This place will never be perfect -
or a panacea to everyone. But if you were good enough to earn a good standard of
living where you come from the same will be true here. .