How does a migrant get their first job here?

If everyone says you need to have had a job here?

Thilaka arrived from Sri Lanka about 6 months ago. She has completed a course in Australia and speaks good (but not perfect) English. She spoke at our Suited for Work dinner last night and was a real hit.

Here are her qualifications:

2009 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (Currently following) TAFE NSW – Northern Sydney Institute, Australia

2008 Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education University of Colombo – Sri Lanka

2007 Postgraduate Diploma in Distance Education Indira Gandhi National Open University – India

2003 Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems (MIS) degree with Honours University College Dublin – Ireland

She needs a break to get her first job in Australia. She is really keen and would love an opportunity. Here are her key attributes:

• IT Teaching: Over eight years experience in preparing IT teaching materials and teaching online and face-to-face at university, vocational education and secondary school levels.

• Curriculum Development: Over four years experience in designing and developing curriculums for IT degree programmes. • Training and Assessment: Over eight years experience in preparing and conducting IT training and assessments for university and vocational education level.

• Communication: Bilingual – Excellent command of written/spoken English/Sinhalese. Over eight years experience in conducting presentations, online tutoring and mentoring and academic and non-academic counseling.

If you email me at diryall@mac.com I will send her full resume to you. Please help her get a break and get started in OZ (she will be on the channel 10 news between 5 and 6 pm tomorrow….Di

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