Moving in May to Adelaide seeking work in Insurance

Hi All,

I am planning on moving to Adelaide on a Spouse Visa from London with my wife who is from Adelaide in May/June and have made a tentative attempt to find a job as an insurance broker. I haven't had much of a response although I have over 25 years experience in the industry. I would love to secure employment before I arrive but some of the feedback I have had is that I probably won't be taken seriously until I arrive. So I might have to take a risk and migrate without a job offer.

Does anyone on this forum work in Insurance or can anyone recommend a reliable employment agent particularly those who specialise in insurance or financial services who might be able to help me

Thanks in advance

Paul

Hi All,

 

I am planning on moving to Adelaide on a Spouse Visa from London with my wife who is from Adelaide in May/June and have made a tentative attempt to find a job as an insurance broker. I haven't had much of a response although I have over 25 years experience in the industry. I would love to secure employment before I arrive but some of the feedback I have had is that I probably won't be taken seriously until I arrive. So I might have to take a risk and migrate without a job offer.

 

Does anyone on this forum work in Insurance or can anyone recommend a reliable employment agent particularly those who specialise in insurance or financial services who might be able to help me

 

Thanks in advance

 

Paul

Adelaide is a basket case, suggest you be versatile, patient, patient, patient and well.......patient

6000 jobs gone from adelaide CBD in 2 years

http://indaily.com.au/news/local/2017/03/16/adelaides-cbd-loses-more-than-6000-jobs-in-two-years/

good news though...

This growth was mainly driven by newly opened hairdressing and beauty salons, and partially by the growing popularity of nail care services.

if that's your skill set. Great!

Adelaide is a basket case, suggest you be versatile, patient, patient, patient and well.......patient

 

6000 jobs gone from adelaide CBD in 2 years

 

http://indaily.com.au/news/local/2017/03/16/adelaides-cbd-loses-more-than-6000-jobs-in-two-years/

 

 

good news though...

 

This growth was mainly driven by newly opened hairdressing and beauty salons, and partially by the growing popularity of nail care services.

if that's your skill set. Great!

As the Aussies would say "Good Onya" for leaving. If anyone has anything constructive to say I would still like to hear from you. I haven't got the option to move to any other city because my wife's family lives in Adelaide and that is the purpose for our move otherwise I would stay in London.

As the Aussies would say "Good Onya" for leaving. If anyone has anything constructive to say I would still like to hear from you. I haven't got the option to move to any other city because my wife's family lives in Adelaide and that is the purpose for our move otherwise I would stay in London.

It'll take some time but once you're here, you can easily network.

Best of luck to you!

It'll take some time but once you're here, you can easily network.

Best of luck to you!

Thanks Emmie I appreciate it

Theelph,

Just be careful mate, not with standing personal pressures, you have to think about the practicality of it, if you wife's family owns a huge business in adelaide and you're happy to coast along with the family business, then super, play golf, fill your socks, but if you have any standards, professionalism or integrity and or ambition for your children well.............. see above - all those qualities will be sorely tested in adelaide as it's as one person once said - a race to the bottom...

Paul, I've sent you a PM.

I've removed a number of posts and edited others. Please stick to the topic and stop trying to score points from each other otherwise all perpetrators will be given some time off.

Sadly We have observed that in particular Adelaide, and the whole state in general, is apparently run by incompetents who have no future vision. The less than 2 million residents of South Australia are being financially raped to support the rapidly decreasing economic base. Many long-time Adelaide residents, homegrown and otherwise, are becoming alarmed at the deterioration of the economy and are selling up and moving interstate; of course, there will be exceptions to this yet SA has become a backwater with myopic vision and will not recover for many decades to come.it's mostly a great place to raise your kids( up to age 10 - after that forget it!!!!) if you have a decent and secure income and not resort to odd jobs that are beneath one's capability.

We sold our house in 2015 and moved to a place that is vibrant, prosperous and truly inclusive; it is worth the effort to take the risk as we but cannot to take our children and their future our of this decay that this particular state is in. South Australia is in a race to the bottom and I don't think this a viewer friendly sport!

My wife is from adelaide she feels that the state is in a dire mess as it has never been before. And, for the record, I am a hopeless optimist who always strives for a balance and rejects knee-jerk reactions.

After all, one can't eat the sun and a beach becomes just that... a beach. Australia has been good to us and will continue to be so -- only not in Adelaide. Cheers!

so we left in 2015, good riddance....................................

Paul, I've sent you a PM.

Hi All,

 

I am planning on moving to Adelaide on a Spouse Visa from London with my wife who is from Adelaide in May/June and have made a tentative attempt to find a job as an insurance broker. I haven't had much of a response although I have over 25 years experience in the industry. I would love to secure employment before I arrive but some of the feedback I have had is that I probably won't be taken seriously until I arrive. So I might have to take a risk and migrate without a job offer.

 

Does anyone on this forum work in Insurance or can anyone recommend a reliable employment agent particularly those who specialise in insurance or financial services who might be able to help me

 

Thanks in advance

 

Paul

Hi Paul, good luck with looking for a job in your line of work. It doesn't seem to be all doom and gloom in SA in my line of work health which is being transformed and modernised with jobs http://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/public+content/sa+health+internet/health+reform

I managed to get a job from the UK so everything is possible if you search and just send out those CVs and cover letters.

Thanks doubter

Hey there. I cannot comment on your employment line but do appreciate it can be nerve wracking making the move. And different again when migrating with an Aus spouse who is returning home. That was me 4 years ago or so

It is often the case that employers don't consider applications from overseas and for many, if not most, making the move first the job hunting once here is usually the way people have to go about it. The job market can be hard to crack but honestly, everyone is different and some struggle, others don't. Read up on making your CV more in the Australian format as this can help. There is info online about this and how it can differ from the UK format.

Employers also seem to like cover letters hitting the job description with examples using the STAR format. If I can manage to do it from the UK anyone can.

Thanks snifter and doubter, I have been in touch with an employment agent who has offered to help while I am still in the UK but we have decided we are moving in June regardless of whether I have a job offer or not. Taking the leap of faith....

Good luck