Desperate for some advice.....

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Does anyone know of any reputable nurse recruiting companies for Canadians who want to work in Australia? I'm finding it so very difficult to find any information on the web. Any info you give me would be so greatly appreiated.

Thank you,

Alisha

Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

hi there I was 24 and I had been in the country for 6 months when I went to Dunedoo! I had been working for 3 of those months and backpacking for the other 3. i was on a Working Holiday Maker Visa at the time.

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Specializes in Paediatrics, Adolescents, Obstetrics.

No need to apologize for asking questions, I am more than happy to help! I know first hand what it is like moving overseas and trying to find your way around the systems etc, I am sure I would have found it easier if I had some inside info!

Most hospitals should have a careers pages where you can find some contact details on... If you find a job listing that you like or are interested in if you open the job description a lot of them will list who you can contact in order to get more information on the position. In Australia we do jobs a little differently to Canada, each hospital is independant so you are not applying to a health authority but directly to the hospital/HR department.

What towns were you thinking of? I can see if I can help you with some of the digging around on the net as well, as I know the Aussie system really well.

As far as visa's go, I would wait until you hear about sponsorship first as I think you will need a letter of confirmation from your employer in order to finalize your visa.

The other place you can sometime find information on current jobs is seek.com.au, and some recruitment agencies post on there too!

I had dealt with http://www.genevahealth.com.au/ when I had initially looked into the USA as well and I found all my dealings with them were great! They were very helpful and answered lots of questions for me.

This is another recruitment agency I found, their benefits sound amazing: http://www.nurseatcall.com.au/ they offer 2-4year sponsorship (BUT there is no way they could lock you into that... that I am aware of anyway. You always have the right to break your contract!) My friend who came over was sponsored on a 4year visa to Australia and she went home after 11months with no repercussions.

BTW just so you know if you see agency's referring to super/superannuation that is our retirement fund (like CPP), just thought you might wonder what they are meaning cause a lot of them specify that in their benefits.

Also when you are looking at going with an agency you can expect a slightly higher per hour rate of pay, when you look at nursing wages in Australia the hourly rate is less than Canada, however our shift bonuses are better, and that is where you make your money, we also have 6weeks vacation pay if you work fulltime, which is better than Canada.

If you do make it to Australia and find yourself around Northern Queensland let me know!

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

Try emailing the international recruiter for the hospital. that is what I did when I wanted to get a permanent job. But if you just wanted to do a few months I am sure that if you sent an email they could do something maybe banking in a hospital. That is like a pool or in house agency.

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Specializes in Oncology, Med-Surg, Long Term Care.

Thanks to the both of you for all the advice.

DownunderRN, I made a little headway yesterday. I sent off my resume and cover letter to a recruiter and they are going to have an informal phone interview with me on Monday. I also phoned a nursing manager at The Tweed Hospital, and she told me that most hospitals do want you to stay a year with a 457 Visa, but she told me that if I want to leave early just to break the contract. She said she shouldn't be telling me that, but a lot of people do it apparently. I can't believe she told me that, ha ha. Do you have an email Downunder RN, I will definitely stay in touch if I get to go out there. You've been such a great help. I may have more questions too, lol. I don't know how to PM or if you can on this site or i'd just send you my email.

Thanks again and hope to hear from you soon :)

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Specializes in Paediatrics, Adolescents, Obstetrics.

you can email me at [email protected] that is my junk email and I will give you my real one from there so that my real email does not get flooded with spam from posting it.

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Hello,

I'm an Indian RN with PD of 2007 having 11+ years of experience in med -surg. I did complete my NCLEX-RN and registered in michigan state. I was in the process of relocating to US and I couldn't migrate due to visa retrogression in 2006. My papers are in NVC and signed contract with St. John's health system, michigan in 2005.its been a decade I have no contact with my petitioner. Right now I have been interviewed by PassportUSA health carousel &promised to offer a job in USA and start my paperwork in terms of I-140 transfer and visa screen renewal , endorsement of Rn license to where I get offer to work. Kindly provide valuable suggestions as im desperate to move further knowing india's PD as of 2004 .does anyone have any idea about PassportUSA and ever tried through them ?

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