Bricklayer coming to Oz and now SCARED!

**tori0609** · 19-01-2012, 10:22 PM

Oh no! We have just read the thread on here saying that the bricklaying work is hard to get and that people are moving to different states and looking elsewhere!? We are due to arrive in Adelaide on 11th April and my hubby is a bricklayer - we have just read this and now we are panicking like mad! We both know it's going to be a struggle to begin with (we have no home to sell and have only a tiny amount of savings plus we have a toddler to care for too)
Any advice on where to go/what to do job-wise? We are both more than happy to do other trades and of course work hard though thought his job was sought after (what with it being on the list) - I've done admin/accountancy work for the past 12 yrs though was planning to stay at home with our little one for the forseable future.
Oh now we are SO scared and worrying as to wether we are doing the right thing or not???!!!

**ian mc** · 19-01-2012, 10:54 PM

It will be hard there are very few jobs for bricklayers just now ther are quite a few on here looking for work.There is plenty of other work in factories etc if you are willing to work else where then it should not be a problem.

**tori0609** · 20-01-2012, 01:20 PM

Thank-you Ian, it's a bit scary! We are now so pelased that we originally refused our state sponsorship visa as OH could have only been a bricklayer with that visa - at least with this one he can work as anything. Thanks for your words of advice - do you know of any recruitment agencies/the best ways to go about job hunting ?

**ian mc** · 20-01-2012, 01:26 PM

Try seek http://www.seek.com.au/ You will get an Idear of what is going on with what type of jobs are on offer.

**tori0609** · 20-01-2012, 01:28 PM

Thanks so much for that ian - will take a look now. Very much appreciated.

**kev27** · 16-02-2012, 03:10 AM

alrite guys me and my girlfriend arrived in october 2011 you are in the same shoes as me and my girlfriend the only thing is dif is that u got a kid. me and my girlfriend had only bought a couple of thousand over we had no house or savings but we just want to get to aus. we got to spend 2 years in south aus. im a bricklayer also and have found it very hard to find work i got work within the first week being hear but i got ripped off. then started with an english bloke but we fin the job last week and now both out of work been lookiing but its very tight out hear and i dont think its going to get beta for a while. you also have to have a licence to do anything its stupid. just bring abit of cash luckily my girlfriends working lol good luck maybe will meet up when u get hear

**doodles** · 16-02-2012, 05:11 AM

Hiya, a friend of ours is a bricklayer and applied a year ago for a visa for SA, half way through the application they took bricklayers off the skills list so he has to go to perth now and another of our friends who is already here is moving to Brisbane as he cant find any bricklaying work, Sorry to tell you this but im sure you would rather know now than when you arrive, hope this helps :(

**tori0609** · 16-02-2012, 09:43 AM

thanks for the extra info peeps. Scary stuff now that we are leavign 7 weeks today - I guess I may have to go to work (previously admin) whilst hubby stays at home with our 2yr old until things hopefully pick-up on the bricklaying front, we were refused the first visa too as the skills shortagelist for bricklayers was full once we had applied though got in fine on a 175 instead. will keep fingers crossed it picks up soon!!