Australia opens its doors for Filipino professionals

AUSTRALIA opens its doors to professionals like medical doctors, accountants, and engineers, a recruitment agency said Saturday.

Aside from professionals, trades people like automotive mechanics, refrigeration and air-conditioning technicians, carpenters, and dressmakers are also welcome Down Under, MAB International Services Inc. (MABIS) president and chief executive officer Vilma Burgos said.

She said these jobs are listed in Australia's 400 classifications of workers that the country needs.

According to Burgos, Australia needs all types of medical doctors, including general medical practitioners, surgeons, radiologists, psychiatrists, pathologists, pediatricians, and others.

On possible salary, she said, a registered nurse and a pharmacist could get 3,000 Australian dollars (almost 120,000 pesos) a month while a medical doctor could earn 6,000 Australian dollars (about 240 pesos) a month, excluding their allowances and benefits.

Burgos said her company, with website www.mabis-inc.com, was the first recruitment agency for jobs in Australia to be licensed by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).

“We don’t collect placement fee from our applicants who avail the expertise of MABIS in job search,” Burgos said.

Veronica Uy

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