Just found this link for Electrical Licensing. I have noticed that some members on the site have been frustrated with the time it takes to get their licenses. Please ensure you contact the relevant State Licensing Body before you leave the UK to find out what is required for you to work here in Australia. There are contact details for the offices in each state and territory.

http://www.workplace.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/5...ctApril2005.pdf

Here is another link that covers all other occupations that need a license in South Australia

http://www.ocba.sa.gov.au/businessadvice/l...ional_licensing

Thanks for that Jet

I have filed this ready to get all the steps ready for Paul. When I've done it I will post it and perhaps Elaine could put it in the FAQ's.

Jo :D

Also check out the link section for the "Huge List of Links" as there are other links that may help people in there.

Sasha :)

One more note for the Sparkies. Start the process as soon as you arrive, ring Colin Field (TRA) and get the ball rolling a day or 2 after you arrive as this TRA process is what takes the time. THIS IS A MUST if you want to start work within a 3 month period of arrival :bouncy:

Paul :ph43r:

Hi Paul,

Can you not start the process prior to leaving the UK, in an effort to be able to work almost on arrival ( understand that the courses if required you can't do in the UK)?, just curious.

Jet :)

One sparky told me once that every other state allows migrants to do the course before arrival - except SA which makes you wait till you get here :doh:

When I spoke with Colin Field (TRA) he insisted on an Oz address and contact details. They may well be ways around this, perhaps some of the other sparkies have told a little white lie about actually being here? :doh:

As for the course, you can download the regs and read up. At Peertech, you can also sit the exam earlier if you race through the 40 hrs or so of homework etc. :crying:

Paul :ph43r:

I am a fully qualified spark but have not been working on the tools for several years. We are applying via my wifes trade. If I want to start back on the tools will I have to get TRA or just go for the license?

Sproutyboy

I am a bit confused with this TRA business.I am going out on me being an electrician i have had my TRA passed already. I know that you have to re qualify to get yor licence when you get there .wHATS THIS ABOUT CONTACTING THE tra again once you are there.
Just passed my part p exam in uk cost me about £1000 to do.Electricians and plumbers have all the luck.

Hi

I'm just collating all this sort of info for Paul and there is already a great link on the FAQ's. Its excellent.

http://s2.invisionfree.com/Adelaidebrits/i...?showtopic=9217

I hope this works !

Jo :D

I can't make it work, sorry. :sigh: But it is there honest

works fine :D

The initial TRA is purely to show you are qualified for whatever skill you say you have with regards to applying for a visa. So in answer to your question you would only have to go and get your licence on arrival into Australia as it's your wife's skills that have got you there.

Not sure why people have to contact the TRA again once out there unless this is where you get your licence in SA ??? sorry another sparkey will have to answer that one.

Sasha :)

The first assessment is purely for visa validation. Once you arrive here, you send the very same information, plus one additional sheet that the TRA send to you (just add name and select trade assesment required, and pay 100 AUD). The "board" at the TRA do assessments every so often where it is more than one person who decides if after all you are qualified to do what you have been doing for the past 5, 10, or 15 years. All in all it is a money making exercise on behalf of the goverment, but that is the way it is............ :loopy:

Paul :ph43r:

I am no Sparkey but I have emailed the office of business and Consumer Affairs, Licensing Area to ask the same question.

Hopefully they will get back to me today and this will put an end to all this guessing and misinformation.

Must say I am becoming very disillusioned by all the threads regarding those who can't find work especially when I post a vacancy and only one interested party replies. Make what you will of that.......mmmmmmmm.......

Jet :)

The info I have posted is FACT, only went through the process last April so do know a little about it.

Paul :ph43r:

What a rip off Paul :o so basically you just use the same information that they passed as being correct and up to Aussie standards just months before for the purpose fo your visa purely to say yes you are again at extra cost :o :o that is shocking!

I know we were once told the 2 trades that are hard to get passed by the TRA are electiricians and chefs as they apparently do more training Australia before being fully qualified.

Sasha :)

Horses for courses Jet horses for courses ;) If people are desperate for work then they should re-read Andy's post above as I think that is the most honest bit of reading you will find.....not saying everyone else is lying just that fact that if you go by what Andy is saying you won't be too disillusioned when you get here or skint ;)

Sasha :)

Have sent you a PM Paul

??????? what post above the one with a couple of words in it?

Opps sorry Jet it was in the other employment thread that is running, sorry both seem to be along the same lines so forgetting where I was, here I've cut and pasted it for you....

I'm a mental health nurse, which is what got me here, but when I arrived ....I went for anything....aged care for a year, agency work, got offered a job with Optus in their call centre....even applied to the police as an "intelligence analyst" (obviously not intelligent enough though ....and still don't know what an intelligence analyst is....)

People have to be prepared to sweep streets or make burgers....whatever it takes.....anything above that is a bonus

When you migrate, you will drop to the bottom of the ladder and will need to climb again. Sometimes the steps are very slippy and it's all you can do to just hang on.....sometimes you can skip up 2 or 3 at a time.
Migration is a wild ride that is immensely difficult to plan...so do as the boy scouts do....and be prepared........ for anything, (they also sit around camp fires playing with their woggles, but I'm not sure I can recommend that as a strategy)

Sasha :)

Jet
I would have pm'ed you but as been as you put licensed carpenters I didn't.

Does the person wish to remain anonymous that had this job for offer as been as you couldn't post the details on the site, rather than people pm you.

As you have said in your reply to your other post, "I guess there are a lot of people looking for work after all"

People should also be made more aware that they can't do the job they have trained for straight away and that they will end up doing s***t jobs, before they come out and after giving up a good job.
Skilled people should not have to prepare to "sweep the gutter".
After people have spent all that money to get over, it looks like you have to do anything workwise to stay here and spend heaps more money again in training and gaining your license.

The invite of "SA needs you" is very misleading and dissillusions many people.

Julie

Julie,

The reason I did not advertise the contact details for the positions I posted was that the work was with several different companies and I was acting on their behalf.

But thanks so much for your interest. We were able to source licensed contractors from Immigration SA. If there is anyone else looking for tradies I can highly reccommend you contact a lady called Anna-Maria Carrera at the department as they have extensive lists of qualified and licensed tradespeople champing at the bit to gain work.

I am sorry Julie that you feel disillusioned with the government but I guess the only way to overcome these problems is to do plenty of research prior to migration to ensure you know what you are letting yourself in for, this site and many others are a great place to start. Whilst I know this does not help to solve your current dilemma it may assist other impending migrants.

Julie you could keep an eye on the new Vacancies forum on this board there maybe something there that is suitable.

Hope all goes well for your future and don't forget Adelaide is really only a village in comparison to ther cities and word does get around.

All the best,

Jet

I'm finding all this very confusing :blink: - (not difficult)
We have applied for the visa on my skills so Paul (plumber) did not have his skills assessed through TRA.
Does he need to do this here or if he made sure he had all the info he would have supplied for TRA together will that do when we get there - as well as the additional form. Can I get this additional form from over there or does it have to come from the TRA.
Hope someone knows what I'm rambling on about.
Any help much appreciated.
Jayne

Hi Jayne

Paul will not able to work as a plumber without having obtained a licence. To do this he has to satisfy the TRA that his skill and qualifications equate to that of a like tradesman in SA.

He will get a Visa on the back of your trade/job but will still need to go through the assessment. I would definately get all the information together prior to arrival then he is ready to have this done. Paul (my husband - elec) has satisfied the TRA of his skills for the Visa but he still has to prove his skills/qualification upon arrival to obtain a licence to trade.

Hope this helps.

Jo :D