Qualifications, experience, even professional accolades provide no certainty for skilled migrants in their search for work in Australia's competitive labour market.
But as many new arrivals recently learned at a seminar run by the settlement agency AMES, the answer can be as simple as a relevant resume or industry networking.
Turkish immigrant Jim Deniz spent eight years in Europe studying a masters degree in geometric engineering. But he spent his first five months in Australia concreting.
The 26-year old was left despondent at his inability to find work in his chosen field.
“Sometimes I cried and until this weekend I was crying in the shower and I said I came here for bright future but I start to lose my hope,” he said.
It took some basic advice for Jim to change tack and land his ideal job as an engineer on Melbourne’s upcoming Tullamarine Freeway.
“I was applying many jobs and I notice something is wrong and I ask my Australian friends to help my resume so work with them and change my resume and I make some networking,” he said.
That's precisely the message at the recent forum for skilled new arrivals run by settlement agency AMES
