Immigrants set record with more to come http://www.nationalvisas.com.au/... A spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said the projected target of up to 148,000 new immigrants for 2006-07 would be met once the figures were tallied.
Bracks to urge migrant boost! http://www.nationalvisas.com.au/blog/?p=12... Federal Vocational Education Minister Andrew Robb last week said Australia would tackle demographic challenges by harnessing technology and underemployed workers rather than resorting to a huge migration boost. He said he believed hiring skilled foreign workers to plug skills shortages would remain a low priority for businesses.
But the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Industry Group are lobbying the Government to increase the number of skilled migrant visas by 20,000 in 2007-2008 and by the same size the following year.
Australia will target NZ IT skills as shortages worsen http://www.nationalvisas.com.au/blog/?p=11... “Strong economic growth has meant more transactions, documents and emails and, therefore, much more to manage,”¯ McIsaac says. “The bad news is that the economy won’t slow for four to five years. Rather, according to the OECD, the world may be facing geographical rebalancing.”¯
Calls for one million extra people in the Australian http://www.nationalvisas.com.au/blog/?p=10... BT Financial Group chief economist Chris Caton said: “Skills shortages are of course a success disease - you only get it when the economy has done well.”¯ Macquarie Bank economist Rory Robertson talked about “the ongoing strength of domestic demand, combined with the ongoing tightness of the labour market”¯. Australian National University economist and labour market expert Bob Gregory agreed that skilled labour is now very hard to find.
Earning a living Down Under http://www.nationalvisas.com.au/blog/?p=8... “You come here with all this experience but none of the Australian market, and you have to reinvent yourself,”¯ he said. Badings likens it to a “mental enema”¯, which forces migrants to refocus their skills.
Now based in Sydney, which he loves, Badings says: “You’ve got to embrace Australian ways because South Africans are generally perceived as quite aggressive and arrogant.”¯
20,000 workers Recruitment crisis on boomer exodus http://www.nationalvisas.com.au/blog/?p=7... Multinational construction company Bovis Lend Lease said employers were competing with unprecedented building in the booming Middle East countries, and project directors could command salaries of up to $300,000.
Hays senior regional director for Canberra Jane Donnelly said financial controllers and managers on salaries of up to $100,000 and $130,000 were in demand following the meltdown of global financial markets last year.
“Within the banking sector they are far more aware of the risk associated with certain products, they are seeking people with extensive risk analyst-type skills.”¯
Business Visa http://www.nationalvisas.com.au/business/busine... The Business Visa Program encourages successful business people to establish or develop a business in Australia. The system allows business people to be initially granted a Temporary Visa for up to four years. When you have established the required level of business or maintained investment activities, you are then entitled to apply for Permanent Residence.
