Perth : IT Industry.

[Bibbs]

Anybody have any experience of the IT industry in Perth?

I'm hearing mixed reports.

Some say it's small and not what you know, but who you know.

Others say it's booming and plenty of jobs.

[ukdennis]

Yep, I'm in a Perth-based IT Consultancy. If your CV is strong, particularly for applications PM's, Business Analysts, PMO specialists, Enterprise/Apps Architects etc, you'll have no trouble finding a job. Many employers will sponsor (including us) for 457 visas.

[Bibbs]

ukdennis said:

Yep, I'm in a Perth-based IT Consultancy. If your CV is strong, particularly for applications PM's, Business Analysts, PMO specialists, Enterprise/Apps Architects etc, you'll have no trouble finding a job. Many employers will sponsor (including us) for 457 visas.

Thanks for the reply!

I'm a Software Engineer by qualification. Currently VBA, .NET and SQL (but 6+ years of experiance with UNIX etc). I think my Job title was "System Architect".

I have an Australian passport, so sponsorship isn't an issue but being out of a job for a lenght of time would be.

Any advice you can give? Anything I can do before landing?

[ukdennis]

Look on seek.com.au for job opps that would suit your experience, and start applying around 6 weeks before you are due to leave the UK.

[Bibbs]

Well, the wife has just exchanged on her UK house.

So we are all go for about March!

Any other advice guys?

I'll be mailing a few recruitment places my CV in the comming weeks.

[Pommygranite]

Bibbs said:

Well, the wife has just exchanged on her UK house.

So we are all go for about March!

Any other advice guys?

I'll be mailing a few recruitment places my CV in the comming weeks.

Bring as much as possible rather than replace when here.

[Bibbs]

Pommygranite said:

Bibbs said:

Well, the wife has just exchanged on her UK house.

So we are all go for about March!

Any other advice guys?

I'll be mailing a few recruitment places my CV in the comming weeks.

Bring as much as possible rather than replace when here.

We've not much stuff to be fair, and will be living with friends for 6ish months.

But yeah, anything we've got that we "kinda like", we are keeping.

[Pommygranite]

Bibbs said:

Pommygranite said:

Bibbs said:

Well, the wife has just exchanged on her UK house.

So we are all go for about March!

Any other advice guys?

I'll be mailing a few recruitment places my CV in the comming weeks.

Bring as much as possible rather than replace when here.

We've not much stuff to be fair, and will be living with friends for 6ish months.

But yeah, anything we've got that we "kinda like", we are keeping.

I would also think that little things like batteries, coathangers, shoe polish, light bulbs, cutlery, glasses, towels, ornaments, lamps, toolkits etc may not cost much individually to buy but collectively are. They also don't cost much extra to ship but if you have to replace them all it really adds up so consider taking them.

[nebpor]

Agree with that!

I'm a security architect here in Sydney - local IT market is dismal for finding good, motivated, experienced people and the quality of people very patchy - UK IT experience is heavily favoured by most firms in my experience and you tend to stick out like a sore thumb - I'd be suprised if that pattern isn't repeated across Australia and you find yourself very much in demand, rather than desperately taking the first offer you get.

Not that there is anything wrong with the Aussies, just they are a good few years behind on the leading edge of both technology and app-dev and have a far less mature IT environment thus our British skills tend to be leading compared to theirs.

[XJSJohn]

ukdennis said:

Yep, I'm in a Perth-based IT Consultancy. If your CV is strong, particularly for applications PM's, Business Analysts, PMO specialists, Enterprise/Apps Architects etc, you'll have no trouble finding a job. Many employers will sponsor (including us) for 457 visas.

just out of interest what are the going rates for Senior Project Manager / Program Manager type bods?

(the 15+ years experiance, infra, deployment, business change. Energy / Banking / Telco's, 10+ reports etc sorta stuff?)

not that that is what i do or anything but just curious of what the rate is for someone like that .... ummm