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Articles on finding work in Australia and New Zealand from overseas: CVs, skills assessment, licences, visas, interviews and settling in.

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• Second-year working holiday visa now a ballot? Places fall from 57,000 to 45,000 · 2026-09-25
  Working holiday visa ballots could disrupt farm staffing and travel plans. Check what is proposed, who is affected and what to prepare.
• Do more migrants shrink your slice of the economy? Treasury's answer is a $400 gap · 2026-09-25
  Treasury's forecast shows migration barely moves income per person, yet it shapes growth and ageing. What that means if you plan to work in Australia.
• Australian student dependants: do the announced exceptions cover your family? · 2026-09-25
  Australian student dependant announcements include specific exceptions and unresolved implementation detail. Check scope before relying on family accompaniment.
• New Zealand graduate work changes: which route could fit your qualification? · 2026-09-23
  New Zealand graduate work changes announced for November have different qualification, timing and family conditions. Compare the routes before relying on one.
• Australian working holiday ballot plans: can your extension strategy adapt? · 2026-09-23
  Australian working holiday extension plans depend on passport eligibility, final ballot arrangements and transition rules, not regional work alone.
• Australia or New Zealand tech work? Look past the transformation headline · 2026-09-22
  New Zealand technology plans raise demand questions for cloud, data and change skills. Examine funded work, responsibilities and the actual employment route.
• Australia's care economy is growing: how should you read the long view? · 2026-09-22
  Long-term Australian forecasts describe a larger care economy. Compare the projection with actual roles, professional requirements and your own plans.
• Australia's ageing workforce: does long-term need change your visa prospects? · 2026-09-22
  Australia's long-range ageing projections explain workforce pressures. They do not replace the occupation, employment and visa checks an applicant needs.
• New Zealand engineering: is the training opportunity there with the job? · 2026-09-21
  New Zealand's engineering downturn affected graduate hiring and experience building. Ask about supervision and project work alongside the advertised role.
• Australia's migration targets: what do they actually tell a job seeker? · 2026-09-21
  Australian migration targets do not explain every labour-market condition. Separate population measures, policy proposals and evidence about suitable work.
• Where does your skilled visa sit in the queue? Ministerial Directions 121 and 122 explained · 2026-09-21
  Two new Ministerial Directions rank skilled visa applications by sector, location and family make-up. See where yours may sit and how to prepare.
• Did 1,500 applications in two weeks just rewrite New Zealand's residence rules? What skilled workers should read into it · 2026-09-19
  More than 1,500 people applied for New Zealand's new residence routes in a fortnight. See what the surge says about demand, trades, teachers and the Green List.