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Successful Total Australia Migrant 2010 ~ 2011

• China - 29,547 • U.K. - 23,931 • India - 21,768 • Philippines - 10,825 • South Africa - 8,612 • Malaysia - 5,130 • Vietnam - 4,709 • Sri Lanka - 4,597 • South Korea - 4,326 • Ireland - 3,700

Su Deo & Sook

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Shares her Australia Job Story Australian Job success stories are written by Steve Packer and published by Tribus Lingua

Su Deo – Shares her Australian Job story Sometimes it can seem as though two plus two must equal five in Australia. Su Deo was a qualified accountant in Malaysia for 18 years. She worked for a multinational corporation and two banks. When she left for Melbourne with her husband and two children in January 2005, she had been managing a major banking group’s credit card centre. “The first thing I did in Australia was register with seek.com.au,” she says. “In the very first week I got quite a number of calls from recruitment agencies, who said they would get back to me. Then nothing happened.”

The first thing everyone asked was if she had

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Australian job experience. “What can you say? It was difficult to digest,” she says. “I mean, the principles of accounting are very much the same whether you are in Malaysia, Europe or Australia.”

Su and her husband attended a two-month course at Box Hill Institute of TAFE specifi cally designed to help professionals from overseas who are seeking Australian jobs. “The course was very useful,” she says. “We learnt important job interview techniques and got an insight into Australian work culture. I believe the interview techniques were instrumental in us landing jobs.”

By the time she got her first break, in June, she was beginning to wonder if she and her husband had made the right move. They had both given up good jobs in Malaysia-he was a chemical engineer managing 100 workers-because they thought their children would have better opportunities in Australia.

and financial forecasting. (Her husband finally found work in the same week.)

“They asked broad, macro questions and seemed more interested in screening for personality…”

An agency had already interviewed Su on behalf of Su began telling employers she would be willing to Hewlett-Packard, but she was told the Australian job start at entry level, and she followed advice to down- had been put on hold. Then she was offered the posiskill her résumé in case it was intimidating people. “I was told to keep it simple and not oversell myself.”

The Deos liked Australia and were finding it easy to assimilate, helped by the fact that they came from an English-speaking background. Su got involved in volunteer work at her children’s school and a football club. “It was good to have those things to mention to employers to indicate that I was adjusting well,” she says.

But in the end, she doesn’t know if they made a difference. It seems it was determination and persistence that led to an agency lining up an interview with a bank that landed her two months’ work in budgeting

looking for their first break.” Interestingly, it wasn’t the down-skilled résumé that caught the eye of HP but her original version.

Most of Su’s interviews were firstlevel, at recruiting agencies, where she found that many interviewers knew little about the Australian tion just as the two-month contract jobs they were dealing with. with the bank was ending.

“They asked broad, macro quesShe is now on a renewable one- tions and seemed more interested year contract as a financial analyst in screening for personality than the technical aspects of actually at HP. doing the job-mainly because they “I felt I got lucky,” she says. “I know didn’t know exactly what the job people who have been in Australia involved.”

Sook Yee Yap – Shares her Australian Job story When Sook Yee Yap couldn’t land the kind of job she wanted in the media, advertising or public relations, she took on a range of part-time and voluntary opportunities to expand her contacts and improve her skills.

Sook Yee, 24, a Malaysian who went to secondary school in Singapore, came to Australia in 2001 on an international student visa to study for a Bachelor of Arts in media and communication at Melbourne University.

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She speaks English, Malay, Can- forms and sent off dozens of applitonese and Mandarin. cations. She was surprised to find that the vast majority of recruiters “My advantages over the locals in and employers did not so much as Australia are my language skills acknowledge that they had reand cultural experience,” she says. ceived her Australian job application. “After a while, when you don’t “I’ve found that the way to capital- hear back from anyone, it can get ise on my skills is to look into any- discouraging. You don’t feel like thing multicultural that would looking any more. But you just make use of my heritage.” After have to keep trying. “One of the obtaining permanent residency, She has found further opportunishe looked for part-time work ties at student radio station SYN through job sites on the web while 90.7 FM (at the Royal Melbourne studying. “But it’s hard to get a job Institute of Technology), which is in the media when you don’t have always looking for volunteer proexperience in journalism, politics ducers to contribute to its proand that sort of thing. And in the grams. advertising sector, they want people who have already been in the Australia needs another 2.4 million field for at least three to five years.”

“I’ve found that the way to capitalskilled workers in the next four ize on my skills is to look into anyyears. IT, Engineering, AccountFocusing on supermarket, dething multicultural that would ing are the most needed jobs in make use of my heritage.” partment store and university job Australia. sites, she filled out registration When a Melbourne University orientation week brochure carried an advertisement for a youth website, Sook Yee decided to send in her résumé to see if they were hiring anyone. A few months later she was called for an interview and got casual part-time work as an advertising assistant with the organisation’s events management company. “They organise events for the Asian nightclubbing scene and have a website (visitkn.com, subtitled Asia Down Under). I started as an advertising assistant but later discovered that I’m more suited to editorial work. I’ve been put in charge of the website as editor and content manager.

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