Have a look at the YAWL project of the Business Process Modelling Group at the Queensland University of Technology. YAWL stands for Yet Another Workflow Language and is based on petri nets. The BPM group claims it can model any workflow pattern. Link: http://www.yawl.fit.qut.edu.au/.
Hah, you are replying to the wrong post. I really have no idea about how companies organise work visas and/or permits for offshore "IT specialists". I have also no idea how much such workers get paid and how that compares to wages given to locals. That's precisely why I did not mention these points in my first post.
The whole point of my post was to compare permanent residents to non -permanent residents in regards to their chances of getting employed.
FYI the original article was about skilled migrants. A skilled migrant is someone who comes in Australia and obtains permanent residence here based on his skills, age, English language proficiency, marital status, etc. In fact there is a quite complicated process in place, which is supposedly such in order to let only healthy, young, highly skilled, fluent English speaking/reading/writing and altoghether proomising specialists live in Australia and enrich the Australian labour market/for more information you can visit http://www.immi.gov.au/. I am talking about Skilled Migration - not temporary work permits...
OK, now having that in mind - please re-read my original post and then comment.
hehe, you are more like an exception i suppose. i can work any hours i want now - because i am still on a student visa (until i graduate officialy - that is until i get a testamur) and i have applied for a few jobs. i got a reply from 3 of them. two of them asked me whether i am a permanent resident, to which i replied that i can work but i am not a permanent resident yet, explaining that the chances of getting it are very close to 100% - and i got no reply whatsoever from booth of them. i lied to the third company and told them i was a permanent resident. i got an interview and all went well, but when they asked me if i am a PR, i told them i am not and they told me that they cannot sponsor non-australians..so i didn;t get that one too. so now i gave up and i am waiting for my application to get processed before applying for any other jobs. i can give you some more examples of my friends, who also couldn;t get jobs because of their non-PR status here. there are also exceptions - but the rule does hold - it is extremely hard to get a job after finishing your degree and while waiting for a PR.
I am just preparing my documents to apply for permanent residence in Australia after finishing my IT degree here (in Australia). There are a few things that Australians can't see (while the immigration authorities can) that impede people like me to get a job straight after graduation.
Firstly, it is impossible to get a job without a permanent residence status. The actual application and documents take about 7-8 months to get reviewed and approved (or declined). This gives a good chance to all Australians to get jobs before any immigrants, who finish their degrees at the same time.
Second, There is a language/cultiral barrier. I personally know people who have applied for IT jobs, and have been rejected on the basis of "would not fit in the corporate culture" excuse. I can sense that if an employer is presented with two equally skilled job applicants he/she would choose the Australian. I can understand this, and I respect this. Also, I know that the society is very culturally tolerant, but still...
I suppose that lower wages for immigrants is not an issue here, as it is not possible (in 95% of the cases) to obtain employment without permanent residence visa, and once you have permanent residence status the companies do not differentiate between Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents (oh well, probably the government and the military do).
So - please do not complain about immigrants getting your jobs. If you want jobs - study harder and get better degrees. And also - I have heard that about 60% of all jobs are given without formal advertisements - do you think it is that easy for an immigrant to get one of these??
There are so many ways to commit fraud on Ebay - even legally under Ebay's protection...
In example - when you're selling do not mention any insurance/postage cost and after the auction hit the buyer with something ridiculous - let's say something like $50USD for ins and another $50 for postage. If the buyer complains to Ebay, their reply would be something like "You should have asked about postage/handling price before the end of the auction". No involvement whatsoever...You just gotta be reasonable...
As to Ebay's credit - well at least they actually do something about Nigerian scams. Even though it takes them like 2-3 weeks..no matter how obviuos the scam is.
Why not just make a container for the passport - like a cigarette holder - but lighter, which does not allow reading the RFID chip at all from any distance?
I wonder whether they are going to provide any internationalisation - like in more rare languages and scripts...gmail are improving that part of their service and are quite good at it...
It doesn't seem like hotmail are adding cyrillic in example.
Slashdot Mirror
Remember?: "If 256-bit triple-DES or similar techniques are used then decryption could require supercomputer-levels of cracking."
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/04/13 48200&tid=123
revolutionized organ transplants, led to development of global positioning systems, and helped feed millions around the world
That's something!
Have a look at the YAWL project of the Business Process Modelling Group at the Queensland University of Technology. YAWL stands for Yet Another Workflow Language and is based on petri nets. The BPM group claims it can model any workflow pattern. Link: http://www.yawl.fit.qut.edu.au/.
The whole point of my post was to compare permanent residents to non -permanent residents in regards to their chances of getting employed.
FYI the original article was about skilled migrants. A skilled migrant is someone who comes in Australia and obtains permanent residence here based on his skills, age, English language proficiency, marital status, etc. In fact there is a quite complicated process in place, which is supposedly such in order to let only healthy, young, highly skilled, fluent English speaking/reading/writing and altoghether proomising specialists live in Australia and enrich the Australian labour marketOK, now having that in mind - please re-read my original post and then comment.
As if there is any point talking to strangers...
hehe, you are more like an exception i suppose. i can work any hours i want now - because i am still on a student visa (until i graduate officialy - that is until i get a testamur) and i have applied for a few jobs. i got a reply from 3 of them. two of them asked me whether i am a permanent resident, to which i replied that i can work but i am not a permanent resident yet, explaining that the chances of getting it are very close to 100% - and i got no reply whatsoever from booth of them. i lied to the third company and told them i was a permanent resident. i got an interview and all went well, but when they asked me if i am a PR, i told them i am not and they told me that they cannot sponsor non-australians..so i didn;t get that one too. so now i gave up and i am waiting for my application to get processed before applying for any other jobs. i can give you some more examples of my friends, who also couldn;t get jobs because of their non-PR status here. there are also exceptions - but the rule does hold - it is extremely hard to get a job after finishing your degree and while waiting for a PR.
Firstly, it is impossible to get a job without a permanent residence status. The actual application and documents take about 7-8 months to get reviewed and approved (or declined). This gives a good chance to all Australians to get jobs before any immigrants, who finish their degrees at the same time.
Second, There is a language/cultiral barrier. I personally know people who have applied for IT jobs, and have been rejected on the basis of "would not fit in the corporate culture" excuse. I can sense that if an employer is presented with two equally skilled job applicants he/she would choose the Australian. I can understand this, and I respect this. Also, I know that the society is very culturally tolerant, but still...
I suppose that lower wages for immigrants is not an issue here, as it is not possible (in 95% of the cases) to obtain employment without permanent residence visa, and once you have permanent residence status the companies do not differentiate between Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents (oh well, probably the government and the military do).
So - please do not complain about immigrants getting your jobs. If you want jobs - study harder and get better degrees. And also - I have heard that about 60% of all jobs are given without formal advertisements - do you think it is that easy for an immigrant to get one of these??http://www.atpm.com/7.05/datahand.shtml
That's what I call a keyboard..not even 20 keys..
In example - when you're selling do not mention any insurance/postage cost and after the auction hit the buyer with something ridiculous - let's say something like $50USD for ins and another $50 for postage. If the buyer complains to Ebay, their reply would be something like "You should have asked about postage/handling price before the end of the auction". No involvement whatsoever...You just gotta be reasonable...
As to Ebay's credit - well at least they actually do something about Nigerian scams. Even though it takes them like 2-3 weeks..no matter how obviuos the scam is.
Why not just make a container for the passport - like a cigarette holder - but lighter, which does not allow reading the RFID chip at all from any distance?
I can *crack* a hard drive in 9 seconds!
It doesn't seem like hotmail are adding cyrillic in example.