New post-study work arrangements/temporary graduate visa for international students

New post-study work arrangements are being introduced in early 2013 for eligible international students who graduate with an Australian Bachelor’s, Master’s or a Doctoral degree. The new post-study work arrangements will be built as an additional stream in the existing temporary skilled graduate (subclass 485) visa. The subclass 485 currently allows international students who graduate [...]

Senator Kate Lundy

Indian migrants new biggest group

India has overtaken China and Britain to become Australia’s biggest source of migrants for the first time. Federal Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Sport Kate Lundy said last financial year, permanent migration from India hit 29,018 places or 15.7 per cent of the total skilled migration program. There were also 36,000 Indian students studying in [...]

John Olejnik – Senior Recruitment Consultant at Cubic Resources

Current Cubic Resources Previous Salt Oyster Partnership Morgan Hunt Education Geography at University of Plymouth John Olejnik is currently working as a Senior Recruitment Consultant at Cubic Resources. He is interested in hearing from people who are looking for work in the Social Care or Employment and Training sectors, and from prospective clients in these sectors [...]

Exclusive Report – SkillSelect Activity Summary July 2012

There were 8261 EOIs submitted and 226 invitations issued in July 2012. India, China and Britain were the top three citizenships for EOIs submitted and invitations to apply issued. Of EOIs submitted the main occupation groups are Computer Programmers, Accountants and Engineers. The major subclasses for EOIs were Skilled Independent (26.3%), State and Territory Nominated (25.8%), Employer Nomination Scheme (16.4%) and Skilled Family Sponsored (14.1%).

Atlassian – Open Company, No Bullshit

One of the fastest growing enterprise software companies is Sydney-based Atlassian, which makes product management software for software development (including JIRA and Confluence). Atlassian was bootstrapped for 8 years before it took a huge $60 million of venture capital from Accel in 2010. The company boasts 17,000 paying enterprise customers with between 5 million and 10 million [...]

Longer Tourist visas for parents of Australians citizens and permanent residents – towards the end of 2012

The Gillard Government will extend tourist visas for parents of Australian citizens and permanent residents to enable them to visit their family in Australia for longer, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen MP, announced today. ‘I know that many people are patiently waiting in the queue for a parent visa so we want [...]

Tom Mallet – Open Source Development Lead

Current Progressive Recruitment SThree plc Education M Environmental Management at University of New South Wales Tom Mallet heads up technical recruitment for Open Source Development roles at Progressive IT in Sydney. During his time with the company, he has developed a significant network of relationship that has benefit to his clients and candidates he works with. [...]

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