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Engineers Australia Membership Folly
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--- Quote from: johankj on March 05, 2020, 11:50:57 am ---Sorry for bending everyone's ear  :-[ The whole thing just seems like money-grabbing bullshit, instead of quid-pro-quo arrangement.
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Yes, it is a money grab for the "authorised" bodies who confirm your skills/experience and radically different to the previous skilled worker visa process. But at the same time Australia is currently flooded with foreign engineers (and trades) pushing advertised wages down. Employers advertise for a certain period to prove there were no qualified applicants at the salary they want to pay. Tightening up the visa entry requirements is good, but ignores the real problems.
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That's a shame. My Australian colleague told me that foreign unskilled labor was being exploited in this way, but I didn't expect it to extend to skilled labor. I definitively don't want to contribute in a wage race to the bottom, competing with locals and a million third world engineers.
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Its the wage race that is the bad thing. I've worked with engineers that came here on these skilled visas who were excellent, but they were surprised at the cost of living relative to the wages they were getting.

There shouldn't be barriers like you are seeing for recognition of your applicability to the work since the employer is surely the best judge. Its a restriction of trade (unless you are needing a professional licence/registration in which case it makes sense).

Given your background... consider applying to come over as a teacher? Different assessment body, also heavily unionised so the pay is less variable.

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Don't take this as gospel, as the States vary a fair bit.

In WA, teaching is pretty much a "gig" thing.
A pool of qualified teachers sit around, applying for every Education Dept vacancy that becomes available.
If they are lucky, they will get a 6 months stint at some remote town--- if really fortunate, they might get a 12 months "gig".

You are pretty much at the mercy of the Principal,  though---- if they decide they don't like you, they can terminate your position, & even "blackball" you from applying for other positions.

This was all set up to allow Principals to "hire & fire", & meant to "promote excellence".
Like most such ideas, all it does is to promote cronyism!
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