Guy Incognito

Hi,

I am thinking of moving to Aus permanently and I should have enough points to qualify for a 175 visa. I have a few q's regarding the move.

1. Where is the best place for IT work? Or are do all the cities have a big IT market?
2. Has the credit crunch effected the IT market significantly?

3. I am looking for a family orientated place to bring up two kids aged 7 and 2.

How does the 175 effect my wife's options to work on a casual basis?

Thanks,
Forum newbie

BAY

There are so many areas to IT. How about being a bit more specific about which bit of IT you are skilled in ... and a bit of common sense would tell you that Sydney and Melbourne might be the best places for IT

Sorry for being so blunt but you are not helping yourself !

And yes the credit crunch has affected the IT market significantly ... there are less jobs being advertised. But it all depends on your specific IT skills as to how much in demand you will be.

sasbear

Canberra has/had a great IT market but as mainly government you would need to be a citizen and with the Gershon report - Canberra is a 'soft' market right now

hk_1

I had the same question in my mind, I am an Oracle professional with
8 years of experiance, I did some research and found that Sydney
offers lots of jobs for Oracle, Brisbane is also good in that
regard since for family its a great place to live. I have planned to
move to Sydney first and after a while will move to Brisbane as I
love the place.

Best,

Zambia

having a very blunt day sorry

MarkMC

India - its all being out sourced

Zambia

BAY

And they in turn sub contract the work to Malaysia who in turn sub contract the work to the Philippines who in turn sub contract the work to Mexico who in turn sub contract the work to the UK

themerlin

Yup but there is loads of work fixing up crap they produce

MarkMC

Tell me about it..... Shame they aint paying me as much as thay did in the uk for it....

coolshadows

i'm a .net/sql/asp developer with 10 years experience. we're considering landing in Adelaide, but there doesn't appear to be too many jobs being advertised there now and I'm a little sceptical when they are from agencies (i've know agencies to advertise non existent jobs in the uk)!

it's a little nervy to leave a job (i've had for the past n years) with it's security, to travel across the ocean to the 'unknown'.

still, we've been planning it for the past n years, so fingers crossed the house sells so if I don't find work for 12 months, we'll survive.

whatever happens, we won't be back!

Zambia

I have applied for so many jobs where I fit every aspect of the criteria and heard nothing from them its actually depressing as F**k.

nickzeff

And how is Perth for IT Project Management roles? If the job sites are anything to go by... not that great at the moment. Anybody got any insider knowledge about this?

I'm PRINCE2 qualified with 3 years of good PM experience and over 10 years of technical experience in IT, mainly as a developer.

Tried previously to ask on this thread, but no-one's answering! Perhaps a Perth PM or employer might see this and have something to say?

Cheers for any advice or help in advance!

G1ZmO

This is what worries me the most about migrating. Obviously.

I have 20 years IT experience but none of it is in any specific discipline and all the jobs I've seen are pretty targeted at specific IT skills.

Not looking for an answer to this. Just thinking aloud

Paul

MarkMC

Seems a lot of companies are ditching the project staff, the engineering/project teams here have been slashed to a bare minimum. Only the support side of things is still going, but they have a hire freeze. I have been lucky to land this support role for now. As much as I hate it, its paying the rent!