Living in Australia - Find a job in Australia
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Most of Indonesian students that coming to Australia are quite rich or at least upper middle class. Just like any other parent, they want their best for their children education. My parent sent me to study overseas when I was 15, at that time I could tell you that I was so exiciting about studying abroad but not because I am going to have a better education, it's because I AM FREE from parent :) Lol:) What a stupid reason but yes that was true :)

6 years later - I graduated from University of Melbourne. and thanks god :) I managed to find a job though not a super dupper good job but yet the salary is enough for a food. I would argue that finding a job in Australia is extremely difficult especially for us -

There are a few reasons why it is difficult to find a job for us :
1) English is not our First Language thus we do not have excellent communication skills
2) This is a typical Indonesian lifestyle student - Go to Indonesian Church - Spend time with Indonesian friend - Although they are in Australia but yet they are still spend their time with another Indonesian thus they do not have a good networking and not have a good grasp of Australian Culture! One thing for sure the reason why an employer would like to employ an employee is not solely based on the technicall skill but the candidate ability to mix around with the group because most of the project will be on the group project rather than a solo.
3) Usually Indonesian students are spoilt by their parent. Their parent almost buy everything for their children :) No wonder a Singaporean friend told me that Indonesians are very rich :) At least that was an impression that they perceived when they saw us.

All right - All right , so where are we?

After a Indonesian student graduated, there are 4 things could happen :
1) Going back to Indonesia - for whatever reason: couldn't find a job in Australia; continuing daddy business
2) Take further study i.e Master - although some students have a good reason to take master but most of the Indonesian takes master because they couldn't accept the reality either they found it - its very difficult to find a job in Australia or going back to their home country and working for a peanut and the only way to postpone the reality is to take further education
3) Working part-time as a cheap labour
4) Succeed to find a job

Of course most people love to get the 4th option which is succeed to get a job in Australia but unfortunately not many people manage to get to this point. They need to be at least above average joe to get a job in Australia.

After a few years, sadly with people on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd categories, they start to complain about life; Desperate couldn't find a job in Australia and force to go back to Indonesia. Luckly if your dad are a rich businessman, you could start away continuing your daddy business but if it is not? then you need to work in Indonesia and start with peanut. These 1st,2nd and 3rd categories shares thing in common; they lost their hope! I couldn't stress enough how important hope is.

Well anyway the point of my post isn't to judge these people but instead

"What should have these people done to manage to get a job in Australia"
Anyone?