Popular with many French people, this country has drawn up a list of sectors where recruitment is exploding, sometimes with big salaries to boot!
Many French people, students, young graduates or professionals, choose to go abroad to live the great adventure, discover new cultures or integrate a new job market. Among them, many turn to Anglo-Saxon countries such as Canada, England, the United States, and increasingly Australia. The country has around 50 to 70,000 French people and this number is constantly increasing.
With an average age of 35.5 years, it is mainly young people who decide to go to Australia, especially since the country has set up the “Working Holiday Visa” program for them. It allows a foreign national, an adult and under 35 years old, to stay one year on Australian territory and work for the same employer for a maximum of 6 months, in all possible sectors of activity. Enough to encourage the arrival of a young and dynamic workforce, qualified or not.
But in recent months the country seems to be reaching saturation point, as evidenced by the many videos of French people explaining that they are leaving Australia because they cannot find a job. Whether in Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne, many of them tell of experiencing failure after failure, because all the sectors they are looking towards seem blocked.
Yet according to economist Callam Pickering of Indeed (Asia Pacific), job offers in certain professions are exploding in Australia. The country is said to be looking for veterinarians, therapists and agricultural workers in particular. He adds that Australia’s ageing population “is creating a huge demand for doctors, nurses and aged care workers”. While the country’s strong population growth “is driving job creation in the education sector”.
Furthermore, it is in the technology sectors that salaries are high, around 80,000 euros per year for a software engineer position. As are the civil, aeronautical and mining engineering sectors, where salaries can go up to 100,000 euros per year.
The main reason for this is the difficulty the country has in hiring in these sectors. So much so that in 2022, the Australian government decided to put in place measures to allow foreign students present in Australia to stay four to six years after their studies, and to shorten the time taken to obtain a suitable visa at the end of their studies.
More manual profiles such as mechanics and electricians are also in high demand and therefore well paid, between 45,000 and 60,000 euros per year. But all these jobs require certain skills that the holders of the working holiday visa (WHV), the youngest, do not have.