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Don't think anyone other than the Department of Immigration and Citizenship can offer a visa!
Although there were a couple last year, given the near complete reversal in the employment situation since the last visa was granted, I can't see DIC being happy with 457 visas in the foreseeable future. That said, you never know how quickly things are going to turn around in this industry!
Although there were a couple last year, given the near complete reversal in the employment situation since the last visa was granted, I can't see DIC being happy with 457 visas in the foreseeable future. That said, you never know how quickly things are going to turn around in this industry!
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Don't think anyone other than the Department of Immigration and Citizenship can offer a visa!
So, if QantasLink is not willing to sponsor an individual for such a visa, DIC will not "offer" it...
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Oh, but the shiny allure of a jet engine...only to get paid as much as a QLink FO anyway.
Are we really that short of pilots in the medium-future that Qantas has to now run three cadet shemes? Whispers a while ago of Virgin doing the same. Probably bullocks but interesting times ahead.
Are we really that short of pilots in the medium-future that Qantas has to now run three cadet shemes? Whispers a while ago of Virgin doing the same. Probably bullocks but interesting times ahead.
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Is there anyone out there who had previously been accepted then put on hold? If so, are these people being taken up or is it back to the start of the line?
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Get out in the real world, get the experience and move on to some solid multi command. Sure there are risks, both financial and even personnel. But we've all done it, and in much tougher times than now.
Australian Government Secret Intelligence Service wants an Assistant Director-General Information Management and Technology. That person will contribute actively to the broader strategic leadership of ASIS as a member of its senior leadership team etc.
SALARY: $151,463 to $166,174 plus super plus executive car.
A Qantas A380 second officer is reputed to pick up a cool $180,000 a year and an F/O $280,000 a year for swanning around the world staying at the best hotels and monitoring a computer. Eventually they become captains at $380,000 a year plus perks.
Is it any wonder there is no shortage of would-be cadet pilots forking out big bucks to learn to fly and eventually reaching the dizzy status of monitoring the radios from the jump seat of an A380. They would be crazy to spend their parents money being ripped off at a dodgy flying school on a battered C150 only to spend the next few years flogging a Cessna 210 around Arnhem land to build up hours to get into the jump seat as a computer programmer in an A380...
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Been out of the game for quite sometime now, over 5+ yrs, now in my 40's. Do you think there is much chance of getting a look in for the Qlink cadetship, even though i meet their requirements. Also do you older guys with families even think it is worth it. I do have a family to think about.
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If you wanted to progress onto a Qantas second officer role would the turboprop time at Qlink be enough to meet the '1000 hours turbine' experience required?? or is turbine specifically only jets, not turboprops....?
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Qantas don't require 1000 hours turbine.
http://careers.qantas.com.au/Careers...-Nov-2009.aspx
But while we're on the topic of Qantas....if they ever decide to recruit again, is the old system of not recruiting from Eastern/Sunstate still in place or have times moved on from that?
http://careers.qantas.com.au/Careers...-Nov-2009.aspx
But while we're on the topic of Qantas....if they ever decide to recruit again, is the old system of not recruiting from Eastern/Sunstate still in place or have times moved on from that?
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So now this scheme is back up and running, what happens with all those who got conditional offers last time? I'm not one, but know quite a few who got the offer and some who even left their job to fulfill the requirements only to be left out in the cold...one should be a little skeptical if offered anything this time around.
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