Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Looking to move...is work getting slack?

Options
  • 01-07-2013 2:32am
    #1
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭


    Hi im looking to move to australia in september,
    Im a qualified panel beater/spray painter....
    i also have numerous welding certificates,
    Ive been hearing stories about it being hard to find work over there now and am getting a few doubts about leaving.
    Anybody here have any real advice for me would be appreciated thanks!


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    audman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 817 ✭✭✭audman


    mkano24 wrote: »
    Hi im looking to move to australia in september,
    Im a qualified panel beater/spray painter....
    i also have numerous welding certificates,
    Ive been hearing stories about it being hard to find work over there now and am getting a few doubts about leaving.
    Anybody here have any real advice for me would be appreciated thanks!

    One of my close friends moved there recently and apparently there's a lot of work going there at the moment for panel painters and spray beaters. Wouldn't be too sure about panel beaters and spray painters though to be honest. I'll ask him when I'm in touch with him again and get back to you ASAP :)


  • Options
    #3
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    audman wrote: »
    One of my close friends moved there recently and apparently there's a lot of work going there at the moment for panel painters and spray beaters. Wouldn't be too sure about panel beaters and spray painters though to be honest. I'll ask him when I'm in touch with him again and get back to you ASAP :)
    WTF ?


  • Options
    #4
    daftdave
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭daftdave


    audman wrote: »
    One of my close friends moved there recently and apparently there's a lot of work going there at the moment for panel painters and spray beaters. Wouldn't be too sure about panel beaters and spray painters though to be honest. I'll ask him when I'm in touch with him again and get back to you ASAP :)


    maybe you might need to stop smoking weed dude !!.


  • Options
    #5
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    any serious advice?!?


  • Options
    #6
    oz2013
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭oz2013


    'm in Melbourne, I'm in the same trade and have found work very easily. Get onto carcorp.com.au. They are a recruitment agency that will find you work. Drop them an email and you will never know. Another agency is konnecting.com.au but I have never used them. Best of luck!


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Oregano_State
    Registered Users Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭Oregano_State


    oz2013 wrote: »
    'm in Melbourne, I'm in the same trade and have found work very easily. Get onto carcorp.com.au. They are a recruitment agency that will find you work. Drop them an email and you will never know. Another agency is konnecting.com.au but I have never used them. Best of luck!

    Couldn't resist.


  • Options
    #8
    rightyabe
    Registered Users Posts: 812 ✭✭✭rightyabe


    mkano24 wrote: »
    any serious advice?!?

    Yeah good job prospects in that line of work here in perth. Mostly to do with them being sh1t drivers..;-)


  • Options
    #9
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    a ya thats good i was getting a bit worried for a bit, ideally i would like to go into the mines but i reckon theres slim chance of that at moment...


  • Options
    #10
    aido79
    Registered Users Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭aido79


    mkano24 wrote: »
    a ya thats good i was getting a bit worried for a bit, ideally i would like to go into the mines but i reckon theres slim chance of that at moment...

    There are no jobs in the mines for panel beaters/spraypainters. The chances of someone damaging a vehicle are very slim and even if it did happen they probably wouldn't fix it.


  • Options
    #11
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    aido79 wrote: »
    There are no jobs in the mines for panel beaters/spraypainters. The chances of someone damaging a vehicle are very slim and even if it did happen they probably wouldn't fix it.


    For welding not panel beating...


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    mandrake04
    Registered Users Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    mkano24 wrote: »
    For welding not panel beating...

    Do you have a Permanent Residency visa?


  • Options
    #13
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    mandrake04 wrote: »
    Do you have a Permanent Residency visa?
    no ill just be getting the whv....why?


  • Options
    #14
    GalwayKiefer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭GalwayKiefer


    mkano24 wrote: »
    no ill just be getting the whv....why?

    Very hard to get into the mines without residency. Not impossible but very difficult. You need to have something they really want.


  • Options
    #15
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    GalwayKiefer wrote: »
    Very hard to get into the mines without residency. Not impossible but very difficult. You need to have something they really want.

    thats sound i have no problem working at anything really as long as the rewards are there....there seems to be alot of people struggling to find work but the more i hear the more it sounds like they have no experience or qualifications...


  • Options
    #16
    Batgurl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Batgurl


    You coming over purely for a year or two or looking for more?

    Sponsorship has just become a much harder option.

    Work is definitely slowing down but I think the transient nature of trade work should make it easier for you to pick up something here and there.


  • Options
    #17
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    for now im just looking for a year or 2...my sister is a residant over in perth so i think i could get sponserd from her if i needed to?


  • Options
    #18
    Batgurl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Batgurl


    mkano24 wrote: »
    for now im just looking for a year or 2...my sister is a residant over in perth so i think i could get sponserd from her if i needed to?

    No you can't. All she can do is provide you with 5 extra points if you decide to apply for PR which is a lengthy and costly process.


  • Options
    #19
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    ill jus go over and see what happens....worst case i dnt get work and come home!


  • Options
    #20
    ifeelill
    Registered Users Posts: 502 ✭✭✭ifeelill


    The unemployment rate over there is 5.6%, during "the good times" here unemployment bounced around between 3.8% - 5% this was considered to be full employment. Now Ireland's unemployment its at 13.8% and according to the news article the real unemployment rate is at 24%. So i ask is 5.6% worse ?

    http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/forget-parttime-jobs-real-unemployment-rate-is-24pc-says-imf-29358808.html


  • Options
    #21
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    thanks that puts things into perspective...


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    Pinny_1
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭Pinny_1


    Loads of work for panel beaters lad. Im a mechanic myself and thers much more work for panel/ spraying in both cities and countryside.

    As for welding in mines they want trade qualified welders only. Very hard to get into


  • Options
    #23
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    Pinny_1 wrote: »
    Loads of work for panel beaters lad. Im a mechanic myself and thers much more work for panel/ spraying in both cities and countryside.

    As for welding in mines they want trade qualified welders only. Very hard to get into

    Sounds good! What part you in?


  • Options
    #24
    Pinny_1
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭Pinny_1


    mkano24 wrote: »
    Sounds good! What part you in?

    Im in NSW near city of Dubbo.
    Gumtree seems ok for some jobs. Seek.com.au is v good


  • Options
    #25
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    Pinny_1 wrote: »
    Im in NSW near city of Dubbo.
    Gumtree seems ok for some jobs. Seek.com.au is v good

    Ya ive been on it a good bit lately some amount of jobs on it! Im a little less worried about going now!


  • Options
    #26
    ifeelill
    Registered Users Posts: 502 ✭✭✭ifeelill


    I wouldn't expect a mine job too easy, might be a different story if your occupation is on the 1st schedule of the SQL


  • Options
    #27
    mkano24
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mkano24


    ifeelill wrote: »
    I wouldn't expect a mine job too easy, might be a different story if your occupation is on the 1st schedule of the SQL[/quotet

    To be honest I dont really expect to get into the mines.... Seems to be pretty difficult


Advertisement