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Forum: Australia
Oct 20th 2024, 1:34 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 2,331
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Moving to Perth - HCA/AIN/Support worker

Stick in the UK and get your Nursing Degree to be Registered and a couple of years of experience.

At that point onwards they will be throwing Visas and jobs at you guaranteed and that is not to...
Forum: Australia
Oct 20th 2024, 1:28 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 4,493
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Moving to Aus as a hgv driver.

HGV driving has been taken over by recent Indian migrants [the amount of fidding with student visas etc is incredible] so your chances are vanishingly small.
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 31st 2024, 7:51 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 2,103
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Moving to Australia for 1 year whilst working for a UK based company.

If you rock up at Immigration on a visitor visa and Immigration twig you plan to work even remotely you will be on a plane going back asap - they do not screw around.

And yes they have ways of...
Forum: Australia
Jul 31st 2024, 7:46 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 2,506
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Transferring a Defined Benefit Pension from UK to Aus (QROPS)

You can do it yourself - it's just filling in paperwork at both ends. Try and avoid the sharks offering to do it for you who will take a big chunk of it in payment.

Contact your UK pension...
Forum: Middle East
Mar 31st 2019, 5:55 pm
Replies: 36
Views: 30,687
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Saudi offer

If you are going out to live there, you need to be saving a shit-ton of money every month by doing so. If you are not then do not go - point blank.

Working in Saudi means carrying two buckets -...
Forum: Australia
Feb 20th 2019, 2:09 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 1,630
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Engineering

Australian Graduate programmes generally exclude anyone with an overseas degree. Ours certainly does and we will only consider PR or citizenship.
Forum: Australia
Feb 20th 2019, 1:42 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 4,762
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: HNC Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Why did you remotely think this ? You won't have touched vast amounts of a Degree course which is basically all maths anyway.
Forum: Australia
Oct 29th 2013, 5:11 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,761
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Schooling in australia

Both have a waiting list of 6 years+, Carramar is a little bit easier to get into but as the far northern suburbs extend that will dissapear. Costs are hitting over 10k per child in the senior school...
Forum: Middle East
Jul 5th 2013, 3:12 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 1,047
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Selling and buying house in UK whilst overseas - anybody done this?

Not a problem, just find a decent solicitor in the UK to handle the paperwork. All the documents can be fedexed out to you for signature.
Forum: Australia
Jun 27th 2013, 8:22 pm
Replies: 41
Views: 5,681
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: new 457 law

It's rorted beyond belief.

Say you need someone with x specialisations for a job. You can find it locally but it will cost well in excess of 100k a year to hire someone.

So you import someone...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
May 20th 2013, 8:55 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,068
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Applying For Jobs From Outside Australia

Realistically you have zero chance.

Employers want people here ready to go, not in 2-3 months time. Your CV will in all likelihood go straight into the 'too-hard' pile even if you have a visa.
...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 11th 2013, 12:50 am
Replies: 35
Views: 2,438
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Will Ford and Holden die?

Don't worry - according to the govt and the previous one ( the Greens ) we are now on the sunny uplands of a 'Green' economy where all those dirty, carbon polluting jobs such as making cars, steel...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 8th 2013, 3:07 am
Replies: 465
Views: 37,999
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Margaret Thatcher is dead

Nailed - the writing was long on the wall for many industries in the UK; look at the state of the car industry in the late 70s. They were killed off by a combination of crap management; sod-all...
Forum: Middle East
Apr 4th 2013, 8:45 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,389
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: A&E in Jeddah

You're experience of Saudi is obviously 180 degrees different from mine then. I meant no disrespect to any nurse but take a chill pill
Forum: Australia
Apr 4th 2013, 8:36 pm
Replies: 49
Views: 4,715
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Anyone make sense of Comrades Swan and Shorten's super "explanation?"

Yet more class war from comrade Wayne. I fail to see how it will raise billions of dollars to plug the holes in the governments finances.

It's the politics of envy - people have too much money so...
Forum: Middle East
Apr 3rd 2013, 11:41 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,389
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: A&E in Jeddah

They need to say where it is. If it is an existing one people will be able to say what the accomodation is like.

The one thing I remember about Jeddah was that EVERY female nurse is a very popular...
Forum: Australia
Apr 3rd 2013, 10:57 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 2,648
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Moving from UK to Bunbury

You REALLY need to find out what money is being offered here. Forget the exchange rate, you really need a mulitple of 2.5 of your UK money.

With 80k assuming your wife can get work you won't be...
Forum: Australia
Mar 27th 2013, 1:15 am
Replies: 38
Views: 4,323
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Visiting Australia before emigrating?

I'd never visited before emigrating? During a visit you are in holiday mode - its very different to being here working, kids at schools, paying bills etc
Forum: Australia
Mar 18th 2013, 2:02 am
Replies: 52
Views: 5,146
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Australian voting system

I don't see the Federal Government putting any money up to dig it out of the ground, do you ?

Mind you, Labor in NSW are happy to get there little slice ofbthe mining pie in the form of Eddie...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Jan 14th 2013, 4:04 am
Replies: 11
Views: 1,268
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Pinoy Passports

Without a doubt the best comment I have seen on this site in years
Forum: Middle East
Dec 4th 2012, 3:07 am
Replies: 9
Views: 3,613
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Gliding in Riyadh?

They are probably terrified that they would be a clever zionist ruse to attack their little slice of paradise.

Remember, this is a country where seatbelts are considered pointless since its Allahs...
Forum: Australia
Dec 4th 2012, 2:57 am
Replies: 37
Views: 4,106
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Non-hospitality job opportunities for holiday makers

I don't think road train drivers would be happy with nut cutlets and lentils...
Forum: Australia
Dec 1st 2012, 5:02 am
Replies: 9
Views: 2,070
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Fairly young & single guy moving to perth

You WILL need a car from day one. malaga is a commercial/industrial zone well away from where you will want to stay and you really don't want to be getting on/off buses
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Nov 21st 2012, 1:09 am
Replies: 7
Views: 1,621
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: Australia Code selection for SAP BASIS Consultant

At first glance, a network and systems engineer would have no relevance if you are a sap 'consultant.
Forum: Australia
Nov 12th 2012, 10:39 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 2,799
Posted By hoofie2002

Re: fines for driving across railroad when lights are active

They keep flashing until the train is detected as having moved into the next track section and there are no other trains approaching. Its called interlocking and is part of the signalling system. The...
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