Recruitment Consultants Beware!
Jun 14th 2011, 4:27 pm
#16
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
I'm an Aussie qualified English/SOSE/Business teacher registered with Ed Qld
Ex-commods trader/broker (will be none of that regionally I know)
Have managed teams of people in commods/broking houses
Journalist/writer/comms officer etc
Problem is the employment market here (I hope) - locals first, then Aussies, Brits last... Unemployment is really high here - hopefully it's not the same everywhere else I am allowed to work. Things are getting desperate - 2nd year of our 475 and I've not started the compulsory work one year.
Ex-commods trader/broker (will be none of that regionally I know)
Have managed teams of people in commods/broking houses
Journalist/writer/comms officer etc
Problem is the employment market here (I hope) - locals first, then Aussies, Brits last... Unemployment is really high here - hopefully it's not the same everywhere else I am allowed to work. Things are getting desperate - 2nd year of our 475 and I've not started the compulsory work one year.
Jun 14th 2011, 4:32 pm
#17
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
Have to agree with that. Though the regional visa really ties you in there. Plus the boat. Can't live on a boat in Sydney Harbour.
Can you set something up yourself? Some day trading or something? Or do you need no end of regulatory approval etc etc etc to do that. That's a stupid question. Of course you do...
I fully understand what it's like to be overskilled...
S
Jun 14th 2011, 4:35 pm
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
Don't suppose you care to mention a few good ones, so my O/H can go speak with them, the one hes with now, don't appear to pay there phone bill as he can never get in touch with them via phone? He got placed a few weeks ago, on the promise of full time work, he as been told by the employer that its for 3 months probably, yet my O/H made it very clear he was only interested in full time as in forever not a casual few weeks/months, hes so pissed off at the minute.
Jun 14th 2011, 4:38 pm
#19
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
Have to agree with that. Though the regional visa really ties you in there. Plus the boat. Can't live on a boat in Sydney Harbour.
Can you set something up yourself? Some day trading or something? Or do you need no end of regulatory approval etc etc etc to do that. That's a stupid question. Of course you do...
I fully understand what it's like to be overskilled...
S
Can you set something up yourself? Some day trading or something? Or do you need no end of regulatory approval etc etc etc to do that. That's a stupid question. Of course you do...
I fully understand what it's like to be overskilled...
S
Jun 14th 2011, 4:42 pm
#20
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
I'm wondering if there is a city where it is commutable for one of us to work there (but live in a regional post code) and the other to do something in the regional place. The other thing I am trying is working in the outback at a school and flying back to Cairns at weekends.
Are you stuck in QLD? Is it State Sponsored? Some of the larger inland cities are still considered regional. I believe that Canberra is.
Could you do that just to get your first job under your belt? that's the killer - if you can show that you have worked in an Aussie workplace, then you are pretty much treated like an Aussie then. It's hard work finding something straight off the plane though.
S
Jun 14th 2011, 4:48 pm
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
I'm wondering if there is a city where it is commutable for one of us to work there (but live in a regional post code) and the other to do something in the regional place. The other thing I am trying is working in the outback at a school and flying back to Cairns at weekends.
Work from home in QLD and place them into firms in Sydney.
Jun 14th 2011, 4:52 pm
#22
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
Are you stuck in QLD? Is it State Sponsored? Some of the larger inland cities are still considered regional. I believe that Canberra is.
Could you do that just to get your first job under your belt? that's the killer - if you can show that you have worked in an Aussie workplace, then you are pretty much treated like an Aussie then. It's hard work finding something straight off the plane though.
S
Could you do that just to get your first job under your belt? that's the killer - if you can show that you have worked in an Aussie workplace, then you are pretty much treated like an Aussie then. It's hard work finding something straight off the plane though.
S
Jun 14th 2011, 4:56 pm
#23
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
A lot of the recruitment agents are dumb Brit backpackers who really don't gave a shit. I flatly refuse to talk to any with that London accent. They were selling insurance or finance in the UK, arrive here and start selling jobs.
Think positive Turbo. Start an agency. I keep threatening to do it myself. Vet the applicants, and use common sense and good manners, and you are bound to make money.
Think positive Turbo. Start an agency. I keep threatening to do it myself. Vet the applicants, and use common sense and good manners, and you are bound to make money.
Jun 14th 2011, 4:57 pm
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
Don't suppose you care to mention a few good ones, so my O/H can go speak with them, the one hes with now, don't appear to pay there phone bill as he can never get in touch with them via phone? He got placed a few weeks ago, on the promise of full time work, he as been told by the employer that its for 3 months probably, yet my O/H made it very clear he was only interested in full time as in forever not a casual few weeks/months, hes so pissed off at the minute.
Technical Resources
Swan Recruitment
TAD
Execom
Like London, Perth only has a few good agencies, the rest are not worth bothering with IMO
Jun 14th 2011, 4:59 pm
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
I've worked in commodity trading in Sydney and had a job up in Cairns for an Indigenous organisation (although I walked out of the 2nd so wouldn't put it on my CV). Canberra? I can't work in government jobs as a temp resident - I think the regional capitals are Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin.
Jun 14th 2011, 5:00 pm
#27
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
A lot of the recruitment agents are dumb Brit backpackers who really don't gave a shit. I flatly refuse to talk to any with that London accent. They were selling insurance or finance in the UK, arrive here and start selling jobs.
Think positive Turbo. Start an agency. I keep threatening to do it myself. Vet the applicants, and use common sense and good manners, and you are bound to make money.
Think positive Turbo. Start an agency. I keep threatening to do it myself. Vet the applicants, and use common sense and good manners, and you are bound to make money.
Might give the commodities/broking jobs agency idea a bit of thought depending on the regulations required to do so...
Jun 14th 2011, 5:01 pm
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Jun 14th 2011, 5:02 pm
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
A lot of the recruitment agents are dumb Brit backpackers who really don't gave a shit. I flatly refuse to talk to any with that London accent. They were selling insurance or finance in the UK, arrive here and start selling jobs.
Think positive Turbo. Start an agency. I keep threatening to do it myself. Vet the applicants, and use common sense and good manners, and you are bound to make money.
Think positive Turbo. Start an agency. I keep threatening to do it myself. Vet the applicants, and use common sense and good manners, and you are bound to make money.
Jun 14th 2011, 5:04 pm
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Re: Recruitment Consultants Beware!
The agents I've dealt with are all Aussie chicks called Caitlin, Tayla, Shanya etc... Box tickers - unless you have experience in the exact role they pretend to advertising you ain't getting past the Barkin's vinyl slacks...
Might give the commodities/broking jobs agency idea a bit of thought depending on the regulations required to do so...
Might give the commodities/broking jobs agency idea a bit of thought depending on the regulations required to do so...
