Questions We Get Asked

Usually nothing about your skills. The two most common causes are a profile that gets filtered before a person reads it, and applying through a channel where you compete with hundreds of others. Both are fixable, and fixing them in the wrong order wastes months. Positioning first, then how you reach people. More on this: How to Get a Corporate Job as an International Student.

Many people have to, and there's no shame in it. The risk is that months pass and the survival job becomes the whole plan. If you take one, protect a few hours a week for the actual job search and treat that time as non-negotiable. Full roadmap: From Survival Job to Corporate Career.

It varies too much to give a useful average. Field, visa, English confidence, how long you've been out of professional work, and what the market is doing all change the answer. Anyone quoting you a fixed number is guessing.

No. Age and career gaps are handled by how you frame them, not by hiding them. Career changers and later-stage migrants land corporate roles here regularly. The framing work is the same work.

Yes. The 485 carries full work rights with no restriction on employer or hours for its duration. The obstacle is rarely eligibility, it's that some employers don't understand the visa and assume complications that aren't there. That's a communication problem, and it's solvable. More detail: 482 vs 485 Visa.

This limit has changed more than once in recent years, so we won't state a figure here that could go stale. Check your current visa grant conditions, or the Department of Home Affairs directly, for the exact number that applies to you right now.

No. Plenty of people are hired on temporary visas. Some employers prefer PR and some roles genuinely require it, particularly in parts of government and defence. But treating PR as a prerequisite for everything rules you out of far more than the market actually rules you out of.

State your work rights plainly rather than leaving it to be guessed at. Ambiguity makes a recruiter assume the more complicated answer. One clear line is enough, you don't need to explain the visa subclass in detail. More: Resume & LinkedIn Tips for Skilled Migrants.

No. We're career coaches, not registered migration agents, and giving immigration assistance in Australia without registration isn't permitted. For anything about your visa itself, speak to a registered migration agent or check the Department of Home Affairs directly.

Two pages, reverse chronological, no photo, no date of birth, no marital status, and achievements written with numbers attached rather than as duty lists. Many overseas formats include personal details that Australian recruiters aren't expecting and that can work against you. Full breakdown: Resume & LinkedIn Tips for Skilled Migrants.

No. It's standard in many countries and it isn't here. Leave it off.

Yes, more than most people arriving here expect. Recruiters search it directly, and a profile that's just a copy of your resume won't surface for the searches they run. Your headline in particular is doing more work than you think.

Fewer than you probably are, with more effort each. High-volume applying feels productive and rarely is. Most people would do better sending a smaller number of tailored applications and spending the recovered time reaching people directly. More: How to Get a Corporate Job as an International Student.

As a starting point, not as the finished product. Recruiters read a lot of applications and generic AI phrasing is recognisable. Use it to get unstuck, then rewrite it in language you'd actually use in an interview, because you will have to.

You substitute for it rather than wait for it. A documented project that mirrors real work in your target role gives an employer something concrete to assess. Volunteering, contract work and internships also count. The point is evidence, not the label.

A significant share of hiring in Australia happens through people who already know someone. If you've just arrived, you have no network to draw on, which is a structural disadvantage rather than a personal failing. It's also the single most fixable one.

Some, selectively. Recruiters work for the employer, not for you, and a generic message won't get a reply. A specific one about a role you're genuinely suited to sometimes will. They're one channel, not the channel.

It counts when it's translated into terms this market recognises. Company names that mean nothing locally, job titles that map differently, and industry context that doesn't carry over are all fixable presentation problems rather than a reason your experience is worthless.

Almost never the real issue. Communication clarity in an interview matters, and that's about structure and preparation rather than accent. People overestimate this as a barrier and it distracts from the things that are actually blocking them.

No, and be careful with anyone who does. No coaching company controls an employer's hiring decision. What we do is remove the things that are stopping you from getting a fair look, and stay with you until you land one. More: how the program works.

No. The resume is one output of four systems. If a rewritten resume were enough, most of our clients would have solved this on their own months earlier. See the full program.

It depends on where you're starting. Someone whose positioning is already solid and who's stuck on outreach is a different piece of work to someone whose resume has never been read properly by an Australian recruiter. The strategy call is free, there's no obligation, and if the program isn't right for you we'll say so on that call rather than after you've paid.

Fair question, and one worth asking of anyone in this space. Our results page names real people, their roles and their employers, most of it verifiable through their own public LinkedIn posts. The strategy call is free and we'll tell you on it if we don't think we can help.