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Too many have expressed or experienced the difficulty of finding a white-collar job in AU/NZ, I'm no exception. Here, I wish to talk about some analyses on the root cause of that.
Too plain jobs, not too few:
I've heard numerous complains like, typically, "so few chances here". Is that really true? Just think how many C/C++ positions you can found in Australia compared with how many IC designers in Shanghai( with almost the same population as Australia).There's no doubt, much more such opportunities in the former case. The fundamental reason is the lack of really technical positions. Take myself for example, as software engineer working in embedded electronics, could hardly find any suitable roles in the market. The typical job description for so-called "embedded software engineer" is like:
*C/C++ programming
*OOP concpt
*shell script
*Know TCP/IP/UDP app programming
That's all, if without extra requirements like know Java, SQL, Javascript, C# (shit~~)
Is that really the "embedded software engineer", definitely not, it's indeed the application programmer on a ready ARM9 device, which doesn't need you to do anymore than programming on PC, except each time you have to download or burn the built image into that device, which is defined as "embedded software".
Knowing how many people on earth know C/C++? Then think about how to present your unique competitiveness over others? I've no idea, except memorizing all the C/C++ syntax(I did encounter such interviewer in NZ), to prove that you know C/C++ "better than others"? Frankly I never did C++ development before coming to NZ, I should say I was luck to get my current job as I pretended that I knew well C++/QT/Boost...
A horizontal job market rather than vertical
This distinct experience made me rethink my history of success or failure, which I hardly noted before (I would have never thought about it until death if not migrating to NZ). One explanation I can give is,
The more special skills the job requires the easier you can get the job,
which sounds a bit contrary to our common sense so far, right? It is true. When you attend a interview on a Bluetooth development role in an IC designer, you are not competing with millions of people in Shanghai, but just very few, given how many out of 10 millions have such knowledge and experience. That's the reason I didn't feel getting a technically suitable job very hard, in such a fiercely competing market. Or think about my American classmate graduated on a phD degree in battery technology, how many in the US would compete with him for a position in certain company? Those jobs are in the top level of the pyramid, which means pretty few people would apply for.
The situation in AU/NZ however is exact opposite, job seekers are not vertically divided based various technical levels. Rather, thousands of them are keen on one position. I never expected that I would need to get a position that numerous graduates do, while no way for me to show I'm stronger than others (who doesn't know C/C++/socket programming?). The interview questions asked here were never used in my formal companies (when I was an interviewer, I would feel I'm a fool if asking those to job seekers, or the humiliation to our team), as it sounded too non-technical.
So, it's the first time to experience what Chinese described as "thousands of horses crossing one bridge"!
To an extreme case, if you apply for, say, government office workers. Surely everyone knows that that's not something only expert can do. But just imagine how many are applying? The guy I know working in NZ tax bureau tends to be modest, "unlike you skilled professional, my job is what anybody can do". The fact behind this is, how hard you know I can get it after beating native English-speaking white people/maori people?
What are the strong points of that then, well, though not sure, it would be no more than something like, communication skills, personal attractiveness, whatever, definitely not that technical people like me are good at.
Besides, one thing I can't understand is given the reality, both AU and NZ immigration office still define the IT jobs as a "shortage"? Almost no technical jobs in the market that nobody can do, instead, IT employers are constantly busy selecting one from hundreds of applicants. Removing the jobs like web programming from shortage list seems to be brilliant. |
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发表于 20-10-2015 18:30:42
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