Exploitation of doctors

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/stop-exploitation-of-doctors-from-overseas/story-e6frg8y6-1225849005821

Conscripted to the country

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/conscripted-to-the-country/story-e6frg8y6-1225848811924

Limited rights for Overseas trained Doctors

How a doctor's competency would change when their status changed from temporary to permanent resident.


http://www.smh.com.au/national/a-bitter-pill-to-swallow-when-a-doctor-feels-doublecrossed-20091012-gtyx.html

Applying to that Job Advert

Today, 11 March 2010, it was reported in Indaily, Adelaide’s online daily newspaper that South Australia's jobless rate is still tracking well below the national average. The latest figures put unemployment in SA at 4.7 per cent, while the national jobless rate is 5.3 per cent. By global levels, this is a pretty low unemployment rate and would make most skilled people feel comfortable about finding work if they want and need to.
So, how easy is it to find a job in Adelaide and where do you start? Well the old saying of “it’s not what you know it’s who you know” is as relevant in Australia as it is anywhere else. Unfortunately as a new migrant you have to rely on the ‘what you know’ to get noticed.....

With job search websites such as http://www.seek.com.au/ and http://www.careeone.com.au/, featuring “Apply” icons on each job ad, job applications pour into employers Inboxes faster than spam. This means that for most general jobs, applying from outside Australia is a waste of time – you resume won’t even get read!

And from inside Australia, your application will only be read and taken seriously if your resume is sent with a covering letter detailing how your skills match the job you are applying for. Permanent employment can be quite hard to find with contract work ranging anywhere from three months to two years or longer often the easier way to go.....

More on job search to come....

This may be the mother of all mining booms

by Michael Suchbury
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/this-may-be-the-mother-of-all-mining-booms/story-e6frg8zx-1225834054395

Skills Shortage

As the economy emerges from the downturn Australia is on a drive to attract skills. Recently the Department of Immigration has issued its proposed list of occupations in demand. At the same time Skills Australia has released its National Workforce Development Strategy that:

"While Australia is comparatively strong in operational management, Australian organisation lag in the areas of people management and the deployment of skills, significantly behind the best performing countries.

Australia ranks low in almost all people management dimensions ... Australian business must improve their human resource-related practices with a target of attracting, retaining and promoting the best talent and more importantly addressing poor performance."
Green, Roy et al 2009 http://skillsaustralia.gov.au/PDFs_RTFs/WWF_strategy.pdf