saville

Hi! Can anyone please help? What is the job situation in Perth for sparkies and can anyone tell us rougly what beginning salary will be when he gets his a class licence, We need a rough idea because I want to knock price off of house and as we will be coming over on limited budget (equity from house sale) are a bit concerned that we will come over on limited budget and oh won't be able to get employment as we keep hearing so many stories about this happening. Thankyou for any replies.

carl-ang

Hi saville,

We too are moving to Perth and like you only have a limited budget! We sold our house just after Xmas and didnt make much at all.

We have now booked our flights and fly to Perth 21st April, luckily we have family out there who will be "looking after" us for awhile. We are also a bit worried about the job situation as OH has a really good and secure job here, but we are willing to take the chance. It would make life so much easier and less worrying if he already had a job to go to but i am sure something will come up

Anyway sorry i cant help you just now, hope you manage to get your house sold and make as much as you can on it. Good Luck!

Ang

shar07

We too are worried, however we have to sell house first so that could be god knows how long, we are validating in June so may get an idea of job situation over there. Good luck to you moving, let us know how you get on.

saville

Thanks for the reply, we had a viewing yesterday and it was all looking really positive and she even came back in the evening for another look and seems really interested till she saw a tile missing from my roof which i didn't even know about, she has no kids but still looked on a housing estate even though she likes her peace and quiet, we have fields for miles at the back of us but she really wanted fields in front as well but i think she realises this is a to much to ask for. We have had house on market since jan 08 recieved visas april 08 and had to validate feb we went to Perth and stayed at Scarborough but due to work commitments could only stay 4 nights so didn't get a chance to look at area so don't really know where we want to go, we are looking at Mandurah or Rockingham but first of all i think we will go to Adelaide for a few weeks to get his licence then maybe move to Perth as it is easier and quicker to get licence from Adelaide. Wish you all the best Carlang in finding work and Sharaz in the house sale.

Brigall

This weekend in the West Australian paper there were 8 jobs advertised for electricians. 8 months ago there used to be about 70-100. Seek.com still has a few advertised but once again not as many as 8 months ago.
Best of luck.

jamiefrod

The job situation for sparkies is dire at moment, and thats the 100% honest truth

shar07

Thanks for being honest it is a real worry, we are coming over to validate in June and we have to sell our house yet so realistically we will not be over this year, lets hope it improves by then.

jamiefrod

Offshore work seems to be still going strong, although you will need to do helecopter escape training at $1600.