Hello,

I am looking to move to Australia with my family, but i need to find an employer sponsor.
I am an experienced builder & tiler, tiling is my speciality, especially be-spoke bathrooms, kitchens, floors & decking, i am currently self employed. My problem is that i am self taught and therefore i do not have any qualifications.

My wife has family on the gold coast who are prepared to sponsor us, but we also need an employer.Ideally we would like to be on the gold coast but it is not essential.

I can provide a portfolio of my works and references from clients.
Can anyone help please.

Thanks for reading my post.
Mark

It's a difficult situation for you Mark, if not impossible but I never like to use such words or Can't.

What you have working against you is:
. as you have recognised yourself - the lack of formal qualifications - and sounds like you've had a good read of immigration options.

and then with sponsorship:
. there's still a requirement for sponsored people to be qualified.

. most tiling done here within Australia is done by smaller sub-contractors, themselves ironically not necessarily being qualified but having skilled up through experience.

I'd not expect that too many of them if any have ever considered getting involved with immigration on sponsorship.

The government regularly reviews immigration requirements, and we have even had transport industry lobbyists wanting immigration to provide for truck drivers - asia being seen as a source to some horror! from those who have experience of roads in some asian locations but to be honest I would not be holding my breath on something occurring in regard to your own skills.

If you have Australia on your scope, I'd have a good look at the SOL and get an idea of what skill you could easily get qualified in (age permitting) for instance, something akin to your trade or area of work of you or your wife's if she works, say real estate sales for instance?, hairdressing? and get a year or so of experience and then go from there.
Could be better than attempting to batter down a brick wall.

Just a quick google on Tiling Companies brings up a myriad of hits - Tiling Companies - Google Search
and you'll have to sift manufactureres and other hits from actual companies, and there's no harm in having more than one poker in the fire, so no harm lost in emailing a few companies - outline your experience/portfolio in dot point form.
And you never know your luck!, as to getting a response, but you'll still have the qualification issue - any chance that you have the equivalent of our TAFE (Technical and Further Education) courses here that could see qualifications being fast tracked because of your experience.

But maybe it's something you can work on while you look at other qualification options.

hi guys

im a new zealand resadent,not citizen,originaly from england,i would love to drive in australia,but because im only a new zealand resadent i to need a sponser.it seems this is near immposible to find someone even tho theres a huge shortege of drivers in oz..aldo i will be a new zealand citizen in the year 2012 then i can go work in ozy without any visa,s or anything..i think this rule is silly to be honest..im a fully trained truck driver hold all driving licences and keen to work,and pay tax.and fill one of them spaces that needs filling.

so then i thought id ring immagration to talk about this rule,thay said to me if i was to go to maybe western australia and find a driving job theres a very good chance of getting a visa..im totaly confused by the whole thing..

any companys looking to sponser a driver id be more than happy to come across.

andy

maybe you could travel to ozy outback were skills are short and get a job and take it from there because you can obtain working visa from inside ozy..but i must be honest the whole immagration process is a paperwork nightmare..i know this because of wot i had to through to get resadency in new zealand..it cost me $10 grand in total,as the paper work got to much so i got a immagration agent to do it for me..but never say never,australia is an amazing country.