Airservices Australia Global Search for ATCs
 

Airservices Australia has just announced that a global search for experienced controllers to commence training and employment in 2007 has been launched.

Applicants must hold a current ICAO ATC licence, have a high proficiency level of english (Australian will do), be able to satisfy immigration requirements, and have exercised operational ATC endorsements in the last 2 years.

Visit the website for more info http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/...ecruitment.asp.

Come back Eurogoose....all is forgiven, the fatted calf is in the oven!!!

And that attractive salary package is????????

· salary during training will be between $A65-70,000
· salary upon completion of training will be between $A70-100K plus depending on the proven skills and experience, and will be determined on an individual basis.

Can I have 30 seconds of think music?........................hmmm, nah.

Christ thats less than i get as an assistant, although it is the same as a london bus driver,, hmmm shows you really dosent it:E

If the salary is lower then the cost of living probably is too; shows you how expensive it is to live here compared to Oz; don't forget a lot of what we pay for things goes to the government in taxes.
I found the same thing when I consided applying for a post in the Caribbean; the salary was much lower than UK, but cost of living lower.

That's all very well, but you'd need to have rocks in your head to even consider working for the bunch of cowboys that is AirServices Australia!

And how much does a sh*tty little bedsit in London cost in AUD??? :rolleyes:

Mr Chevvron is totally correct.

The salary offered is a lot less than any ATCO in the UK would be offered, regardless of location.

Who, in their right mind, would want make such a move to a country which, on the face of it is a great place to live but in reallity has higher taxes than the UK, greater relative unemployment figures and a climate which would test the most experienced resident of the Sahara desert.

You are kidding right?

On that salary living in Brisbane you could easily afford a house and send your kids to private school. Not to mention swim in the most beautiful beaches 8 months of the year, enjoyin a temp range of 8-35C, moderate sub-tropical climate. Your kids grow up playing in the home pool 8 months of the year, playing outdoors everyday, rain or sunshine and enjoy a clean beautiful city, with the best sporting climate in the world.

If you don't agree, please dont come we have enough POMS to last us forever.

Like living in Swanwick or Prestwick could compare.

And yes EuroGoose please come home. Bring that wonderful family with you, Hunter still has a seat for you.

Groove

You know I look back fondly at all those countless wasted hours of sitting in traffic on the M25 trying to get to work (soon to be the M27 'eh), while watching the fuel needle slowly drop having paid christ knows how many dollars a litre for gas and insurance in a vehicle I was one of the only people in my street who was lucky enough to have off street parking out the front of my 60 year old 650 square foot half a million dollar semi-detached with a postage stamp of a back yard 30 miles from work because that's all I could afford on my wonderful ATCO salary all the time praying the pollution didn't affect my health and force me to rely on the NHS

No, no wait, it was the single bedroom $650,000 flat in Harrow that I rented across the road from the school that didn't have ANY grass for the kids to play and where I had to leave my car out on the road to be broken into twice that still took me an hour and a half to get to work with all the traffic in the pissing down rain .......... that will always hold a special place in my heart.................rrrriiiiiiigggghhhhhhhtttttt. :rolleyes:

Is this just a coincidence........... didn't the Australian government just pass the final hurdle in implementing their new Industrial Relations laws?? Don't want to sound like a conspiracist but this has AWA written all over it!!!!

My wife and I were discussing that exact thing this morning when an old work buddy of mine from Brisbane centre emailed me the link.

And I was discussing the same thing with the same bloke this morning. The company has got to get serious. If they want to entice guys with experience, they need to pay them what guys already working with the same experience have, ie the top of the pay scale. Simple. You know full well that Airservices are looking at this as a way of getting the dudes who have left to come back and not actually entice anyone else to leave their job. Guys in the UK are not the target audience. It is the sand pit and Canada. Most of those left knowing if they want to come back, they start at the bottom again. Airservices is thinking that by putting the start up 3 or 4 increments, this may sway some of them. They don't want just straight out experienced people, they want guys with experience in Australian ATC and TAAATS.
Side note, my titties bounce with laughter everytime some idiot does a straight currency conversion from one country to their own/another and bases their perceived level of potential living standard on that. Very very naive.

Now that's a lovely image at 0555 local!

'Global Search for ATCOs' sounds like a pitch for a reality TV show.....

....I wonder..........

Track Coastal......

Angolia, South Africa (can you imagine how many applications we will get from there!!!), Sweden, Mexico..... just to name a few.

Groove

Jerricho.....

Is it tempting, to leave all that snow and come home?????

Dirty Pierre & ATC Groove,

Nah, not yet...Although Brisbane Tower would be nice :}

Not Hunter please..then I have to sit next to Blandy & Carl again :}

It would probably be TOPS, sitting with other ex Euro, who must be doing his head in over the night shifts :ugh:...Where are you TT , have you been banned again ?

I have just opened a fortune cookie that says "You will set forth on a long journey very soon".

No wait, that'll be the UK in January ;)

Here's a further question.........will there be a "relocation package" to help with the move? Dreaming? Probably, but Nav Canada certainly did to the tune of $15000 CAD (granted it was receiptable but still)

Without causing an international incident, is this a positive or a negative comment?