Half of migrant engineers in Australia unemployed or working in other sectors, despite qualifications

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Half of migrant engineers in Australia unemployed or working in other sectors, despite qualifications
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Australia has an engineer shortage, but half of all qualified migrant engineers in Australia still cannot get work in the field.

abc.net.au/news/act-half-migrant-engineers-unemployed-different-sector-shortage/101537542When Ritesh Mahato emigrated from India to Australia in 2017 to pursue an engineering career, he was prepared for competition.

"Doesn't matter if you've got 20 years' experience in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Middle East," Ms Lazkany said."Just having accreditation, you won't be able to get a job in Australia," Mr Mahato agreed. That's despite a current national shortage of 30,000 engineers that's forecast to reach 100,000 by 2030.

"We need to look at our student engineers, but we also need to consider the current skilled migrant engineers who are already in Australia. We do also need to look at making sure that we bring the skilled migrant engineers that we need from overseas."Mr Mahato's found some interim support through a Facebook group, Nepalese Engineers in Canberra.

He experienced his own work woes on arrival to Australia in 2005, but eventually landed an engineering job in Canberra.

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