Kenny Dowling and Anne Marie Flattery had not intended to work on a two million-acre farm in rural Australia, but that’s what happened.
Kenny, 24, who is from Athlone, Co Westmeath, and his girlfriend Anne Marie, 25, from Ballymahon, arrived in Australia in early 2009 and saw a ‘help wanted’ ad for station hands on the [...]
A major drop in applications for junior doctor posts in Ireland is being blamed in part on an exodus to Australia.
Internal Health Service Executive (HSE) documents show that applications for Non-Consultant Hospital Doctor (NCHD – the official name for junior doctors) posts to be filled by January 2010 have fallen by more than half at [...]
Hi John, I’m off to New Zealand for a year having been in Oz on working holiday visas for two years. I worked here for a year as a nurse assistant/care orderly, similar to my work in Ireland. I asked my work agency about sponsorship. They said my job wasn’t on the skilled list so [...]
by Pádraig Collins
QUEENSLAND is once again proving to be a fertile jobs market after a recent boost in economic activity there.
Though unemployment in the sunshine state is still slightly above the national average, it is heading in the right direction and dropped from 6.3 to six per cent in October.
Cavanman Micheal Brides, 23, first arrived [...]
by Pádraig Collins
WESTERN Australia looks like it is entering a new employment boom thanks largely to a resurgent mining and resources sector.
Though the overall Australian unemployment rate rose from 5.7 to 5.8 per cent last month, the rate in WA dropped to 5 per cent from 5.7.
The other resource-rich states also saw drops in unemployment [...]
A further 100,000 jobs will be lost if the current building slump continues, Irish construction chiefs have warned.
With 200,000 workers in the sector already unemployed, industry leaders called on the Government to invest in labour-intensive projects to stop the haemorrhage.
The Construction Industry Federation (CIF) also claimed six billion euro worth of roads, schools and public [...]
By Isabel Hayes
The Australian jobs market received another boost recently with the announcement that the national unemployment rate fell to 5.7 per cent in September – despite economists predicting the figure would rise to 6 per cent in the same period.
If Australia needed confirmation that it is one of the few developed countries in the [...]
The number of 457 sponsorship visas being granted to Irish nationals has plateaued as the jobs market tightens up due to the global financial crisis.
Latest figures released by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) show that while the overall numbers of 457 visas issues to Irish nationals is up on last year, the trend [...]
Irish migrants, and tradesmen in particular, will be adversely affected by the Australian Government’s decision to cut the annual intake of skilled migrants by 14 per cent over the next three months.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) announced last week it is removing building and manufacturing trades from the critical skills list (CSL), meaning [...]
It has seen its fair share of ups and downs in recent years, with the dotcom crash of 2000 and the subsequent boom period, but while other industries are cutting costs and freezing recruitment, the IT sector is currently looking relatively healthy for 2009.
Times are by no means easy, but the demand is still present [...]
