Plumber wanted in Melbourne
5 May 2010Plumber required for a Melbourne business (bayside suburbs) specialising in hydronic heating, with a developing geothermal and air source heat pump product offering. Above award pay will be offered to the successful candidate. Those seeking contract and/or full time employment opportunities will be considered.
Licenced plumber preferred but plumbers registered with Victorian Plumbing Commission are encouraged to apply.
Please see: http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/job-vacancies/83897-plumber-heating-wanted-melbourne.html
Australian Job Vacancy for Child Protection Social Workers
5 May 2010LOOKING FOR SOCIAL WORK OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
REED are a specialist Social Work recruitment agency. We are working in partnership to recruit UK Social Workers into sponsored positions in regional South Australia. Our client is offering high salaries and relocation for the right candidates.
Great (and rare) opportunity to gain employment Downunder and to experience the Aussie lifestyle. If you have Child Protection experience, a Social Work qualification and are available to relocate within the next 6 months.
For more information please see: http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/job-vacancies/84983-child-protection-social-workers-team-leaders.html
Australian Job Vacancy – Automatic Transmission Specialist
5 May 2010Automatic Transmission specialist.
Required: ASAP
Salary: Negotiable
Work Type: Full time
Location: West Gosford (Central coast, NSW)
Date Posted: 04/05/10
Applicants must be transmission specialist. Experience in differential and Manual would be an advantage. We offer excellent working conditions, on-going training and advancement opportunities in a secure industry.
Job Description
Repair automatic transmissions on a high range of vehicles. Disassemble transmission unit and replace broken or worn parts, such as bands, gears, seals, and valves. Adjust pumps, bands, and gears as required. Install repaired transmission and fill with specified fluid. Adjust operating linkage and tests operation on road. You will also be required to service and diagnose problems on any vehicle and be able to deal with customers directly if required. Any applications from overseas are welcome.
To Apply See: http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/job-vacancies/85435-automatic-transmission-specialist.html
Migration Institute of Australia and Moneycorp
5 May 2010The Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) is proud to announce it has signed a major annual sponsorship deal with leading commercial foreign exchange company, Moneycorp.
“Our partnership with Moneycorp will have a positive impact on our members and their clients.” said MIA CEO, Maurene Horder. The Moneycorp commitment ensures MIA members and their clients have access to a foreign exchange service that will save them time and money.
The MIA and Moneycorp both agree on how important it is to get the right advice from a dedicated team of experts. “We offer a range of innovative products and services to assist companies and individuals make overseas currency transfers at the best possible exchange rates. With a dramatic increase in exchange rate volatility since the advent of the global financial crisis, good advice from a foreign exchange specialist is more important than ever.” said Andrew Franklin, Moneycorp’s Country Manager.
Moneycorp has more than 30 years experience of providing foreign exchange services to both private and corporate customers, with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Australia. “It is through support from sponsors such as Moneycorp that we can be sure MIA member Registered Migration Agents are well supported as they assist people to live, work and study in Australia.” said Ms Horder.
http://mia.org.au/latest-news/Moneycorp-sponsors-MIA-319.html
Moneycorp Live Chat on currency exchange – 11th May
5 May 2010Poms in Oz is hosting a “post general election” Live Chat session with John Kinghorn from Moneycorp on 11th May 2010 to answer all your queries on the Australian dollar. The session will start at 7:30pm (UK time), and will last approximately 2 hours.
Whether you are moving to Australia, or living there already, John will provide the latest updates on the Aussie dollar and give you some insight into the key influencing factors. Exchange rates are constantly fluctuating and transferring your money at the right time, via the right channel, will make a big difference!
To find out more go to http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/money-transfer-ask-experts/
Arrived in Melbourne Part 1 and 2 – By Julie Pomsinoz
5 May 2010Hi Guys, well I said I would keep you all updated, so here goes..
We left freezing UK at 3.30pm via minibus taxi to Heathrow on Sat 20th Feb 2010. Had 4 very large suitcases, 2 holdalls, one smaller suitcase, 4 cabin bags – all packed to the max!! thank god for double baggage allowance!
At Heathrow we went through security ok, had to remove our shoes! and showed our email with the double baggage confirmed. Had a meal and found the Samsung power bank to plug in our laptops and ipods to keep us all going. No free internet boo..
Boarded our Singapore Airlines A380 plane, had checked in 48hrs before online and printed our boarding passes. We had 4 seats in the middle. Loads of room for the large cabin bags – we kept them all to the 7kg limit, but no one weighed them anywhere! typical. Kris world entertainment system was good, but we used our own noise cancelling headphones and they were def a good investment to drown out babies, people snoring and noise leakage from their bad headphones! Appetisers were awful, and the main course of chicken or beef ok, but chicken run out. Pud choc cake not great. Had a singapore sling though! Stewardesses were really fab! Flight very bumpy and the seats very hard and our knees suffered! Oh for business class!
We landed in Singapore on Sunday evening 18.45, the last flight I think as arrivals was dead. we only had passports stamped and customs wanted to only scan a few cases as we had so many and they wanted to go home! We had pre booked our minibus taxi – Big thanks to NigelinOz, was $88 return to Hotel in Singapore. we used SMRT Website – Limousine Services
Singapore
it took about 20 mins to get to our Hotel – Novotel Clarke Quay from the airport by taxi. As we are Krisflyer registered with Singapore Airlines we had 3 nights in an executive room – king bed and 2 singles with free breakfasts for 4! Hotel room big but fittings a little dated, wiring not the best shape! Pool was great (outdoor) with bar service! Breakfast great variety – even miso soup and noodles if you wanted.
Taxis cheap if you remember to use metered ones. We went to Sentosa Island on Monday, got the train MRT to harbourfront expecting to go on the cable car over, but this is shut for a few months to upgrade sadly. We took a tour over and was expensive, did the luge ride (fab!), beach, skytrack extreme log ride (3d virtual). Very expensive icecream but food good. Encountered our first downpourand couldn’t believe we were still hot! not England then!! Temps 35 – 27 degrees..
Went to Orchard Road and saw the shops – boring really. Did the Singapore Flyer – no queues and really fab. Did Chinatown, hot but fab too! Kids loved it, and the food in the restaurants were good and esp with the kids. Met up with some friends there and all in all a very good idea. Ran out of time to do the zoo!
You all asleep yet??
Left the Hotel (late check in at 4pm due to the Krisflyer promotion) and our minibus got us to the airport swiftly. SA checked and double checked our baggage email, thank god we printed it and took! we were 158kgs without the hand luggage!!!! Chiangi fab, easily spent hours there. Had food, shopped and enjoyed the free wireless internet (go to Info desk for passwords) and power to recharge ipods/laptops etc.
Second flight, a 777, seats softer but what a rattler! my entertainment system didn’t work, they tried to fix but couldn’t. Food really rubbish, had no sleep despite noise cancelling headphones. People in front left lights on, kept hacking up snot and spitting out, annoying stewardesses etc.. couldn’t wait to leave!!
At Mel airport at 10.05 am, luggage was immediately on the carousel but a bun fight to find trolleys and the queue through to customs was through the middle of this and reall really long! we declared a few items we were not sure of and customs just asked us about them and then we by passed all the asians and indians in the red channel to go straight out. Met by Lisa (the stockies on here) organised by our lovely Kate (MovingtoMelbourne) with a welcome banner, and took us by minibus off to Mornington accommodation (also organised through Kate) – a 5 bed fully furnished house!
Enough for now as I am tired still and have a sore throat from the plane!!
More soon..
Julie xx
Part 2
Well I will try to summarize what has been happenning since we walked off the plane into our new lives in Mornington about a month ago..
Well, we followed our landlord, Edwin to our accommodation (driven in Kates minibus by Lisa Stockie). He had everything ready for us all and helped us into the house with all our masses of suitcases. There was even a cooked chicken, salad, drinks, bubbly etc in the fridge and cupboards had food in too!!
We quickly started unpacking before we started to feel the jetlag! We had some food and by 5pm crashed into bed for a few hours.. When we surfaced we ordered pizza (courtesy of the info on the fridge). After a good night’s sleep Edwin arrived at 9am to take my OH to the car rental place that he had organised for us!
My MIL and FIL arrived by 11am that day also and FIL had food poisoning! great start!! My MIL took us food shopping (left FIL on the sofa), she spent a big $900 !! without booze!! Then we went to the Bank to validate our account. Next day we looked at cars and found a Mazda 6 for $22k. Finding the car was easy but actually buying it was harder. We needed several forms of ID to get the rego sorted, couldn’t get Vic licence as you have to both make appointments to go to the office and apply for it, insurance was easy online and we could then print off policy docs showing our address. We couldn’t get Medicare yet as we had to have been in the country for 10 days! Luckily our rental had an invoice so we bought a printer and used our laptops to print that address proof!
On Saturday we also used our satnav (downloaded maps before we came) to get our 2 cats from quarantine in Spotswood. Met up briefly with Simon and Caroline (PIO) who were collecting their 2 and had brough our cats some toys and a scratching post – THANK YOU!!
Next few days were spent running around finding ID, getting bank cheque, buying car and trying to get appointments with schools to have a look! Docs registration was easy, had to get FIL to docs too as he had a perforated eardrum too (and he is a miserable sod anyway!). I would not recommend having any rellies when you have just landed and staying with you!
Finally got kids into school just over a week later. Son loves his primary school, and daughter is getting there in her secondary. They both stayed in their same year groups as UK.
We managed to spend a day on the beach in Mornington, lovely clear water and beautiful beaches!! Also went to Arthurs seat to ‘test’ the car! In laws went off to Phillip Island for the night so we had a peaceful day!
School fees and uniforms and book purchases were expensive! Secondary school fees (state) were $700 and primary school fees $300. secondary school uniform skirt for eg $70! each!
We went to the Dandenongs one day when kids were in school – really lovely country and the views were stunning!
OH had a few interviews after a week and was offered a permanent job! He started work in the CBD last week. He has also now been offered another from those interviews..
We are lucky to have a long term friend living in Mt Martha and have been introduced to a few poms out here, been out to BBQs and met up with PIO here too.
Hope you are still reading otherwise I am just writing my life history for nothing!
Our 2 cats are settling in well now. Tried to register them with council, but have to get them scanned by a vet/local shelter first to put them on the National Pet database first before we can register! silly as we had them scanned in quarantine!
Mornington is a lovely seaside town, but with good retail parks with everything you could want! Frankston just down the road has a great big shopping mall for everything else! People are really friendly and my daughter is the 4th Brit in her class!
We now have our Medicare cards, Vic Roads licence (10yr $158), and have spent the last few weeks trawling around houses to rent and putting in rental applications. Some Agents are lovely, others less than helpful! Finally on Monday we found out we had been approved for a lovely house which we get the keys to on 9th April, our container should be delivered on 16th and we have this place till 20th May as we knew finding rentals is horrid! we even offered 12 weeks up front!
Well I hope this has been useful for some of you wanting to come over soon. Already we can see life is better, not cheaper and certainly different!
Julie x
Finally Arrived in Melbourne
5 May 2010Well after changes to our flight due to the volcano and a 38 hour journey (including stopover) we arrived in Melbourne yesterday. We flew with Singapore Air and I must agree with many posts they were fantastic. They must have been great as I noticed how good they were while still being completely terrified of flying. We had a long stopover in Singapore and stayed at the Transit hotel until our connecting flight (worth every penny).
Kate from Moving to Melbourne was waiting for us at the airport with a very welcoming hug and then took us to our short term rental.
So far we’ve managed to apply for our Tax file numbers and activate our bank account. We had a drive to St Kilda last night and then around Berwick and Narre Warren today.
Tomorrow I’ve got a registration interview with a teaching agency and OH starts work next Wednesday.
I must say that even through the haze of jet lag ( not helped by the kids waking up at 3:30 this morning!) we love what we’ve seen of Melbourne so far.
I’ll write more once in a few weeks once I’ve settled in more.
For more information on how Sue is enjoying her new life in Melbourne why not follow her posts at: http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/reccie-arrival-reports/84916-finally-arrived-melbourne.html
South Australia State Sponsorship – New Procedures
5 May 2010In February this year the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) announced, among other changes, that the Skilled Occupations List (SOL) will be reviewed. This new list of occupations will be released by DIAC in May for implementation in mid 2010. It is therefore to follow that applicants whose occupations that are not to be included in the new SOL will need to have their visa applications lodged with DIAC before the implementation date of mid 2010 (an exact date for the implementation of the new SOL has not been released by DIAC at time of this update).
In anticipation of this, Immigration SA will be implementing the following procedure to assist applicants who wish to have their sponsorship applications/decision available in time to lodge their visa application with DIAC before the implementation date of the new SOL.
If you wish to have a decision on your sponsorship application before the new SOL is implemented by DIAC, you must comply with the following:
·Submit your full application as soon as possible.
·All Sponsorship applications must be lodged online AND all supporting documents registered at Immigration SA before 14 May 2010
·On 14 May 2010 the Sponsorship Online application system will be closed down for a short period of time – There will be no access to the system during this time. You will need to monitor the website.
·All applications will be assessed according to order of registration – no fast tracking for any reason
·Annual planning levels apply to all occupations on the Sponsorship List. Once the planning level has been reached for that occupation, the occupation will no longer be available for sponsorship for this financial year regardless of the date of online lodgement or registration. All remaining applications received for that occupation will be refused.
·Applications that are received after 14 May 2010 (when the system is switched back on) will be placed in the ‘queue’ for processing under the new SOL, unless the (sponsorship) planning levels are reached for that occupation.
·Sponsorship applications submitted and registered in the queue under the new SOL will be assessed in 4 – 8 weeks, according to current Visa and Sponsorship criteria at the time of assessment regardless of whether a visa application has been lodged with DIAC.
State Migration Plans (and any associated lists)
These requirements and arrangements may change when State Migration Plans (and any associated lists) are finalised and implemented. These are expected to be completed in the middle of 2010.
Occupations included in State Migration Plans, criteria, procedures will be published on this website when available.
Deadline: 14 May 2010
If your sponsorship application is not submitted online AND all the supporting documents registered at Immigration SA before 14 May 2010, your sponsorship application will not have a decision before July 2010.
If DIAC makes any significant changes to the implementation date of the new SOL, this may affect the 14 May 2010 deadline and subsequent temporary closing down of the Online application system.
Point Cook Furnished Rental Accommodation in Melbourne
5 May 2010A Poets Corner is a modern and comfortable, private one bedroom apartment that provides a high standard of accommodation.
Guests will enjoy a spacious and new apartment with features including a fully equipped kitchen, living/dining room, separate bedroom with queen bed and quality linen, private balcony and separate ensuite. To ensure you have an enjoyable stay other inclusions provided are large LCD TV and DVD player, private off-street parking, air conditioning, heating and laundry facilities.
For more information check out our website at:http://www.moving-to-melbourne.co.uk/melbourne-furnished-rental-accommodation-pointcook.htm
Melbourne Furnished Rental Accommodation in St Kilda
5 May 2010These 1-bedroom apartments are conveniently located in a quiet residential street just a minute’s walk to Acland Street Cafes, restaurants and supermarkets, tram 96 to city. 5 minute walk to St Kilda beachfront and Luna Park. Within 5 km of Melbourne city centre and 2km from St Kilda Rd business district. From $695 per week
For more information check out our website at:http://www.moving-to-melbourne.co.uk/melbourne-furnished-rental-accommodation-stkilda-clyde.htm
