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Getting a job in Australia, 2026

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Australia has tilted decisively toward employer sponsorship: fourteen thousand more sponsored places, regional cut by more than half, New South Wales closed. The thresholds after 1 July 2026, the rule change that resets your permanent residence clock if you switch jobs, the full points table band by band, every assessing authority's fees, and why registration beats the visa for doctors and nurses.

Country guidePublished 20 September 2026·Every figure checked 20 September 2026·18 min read
AUD 79,423
Core Skills income threshold, indexed 1 July 2026
Indexation reported 1 to 2 Jul 2026
15 days
Median processing for the 482 Specialist Skills stream
Home Affairs, data as at 4 Sep 2026
+14,040
Extra employer sponsored places in the 2026 to 2027 program
Program planning levels
−18,890
Regional places cut in the same year
Program planning levels
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Step one is not the visa. Step one is the interview call.

Everything in this guide about permits, thresholds and documents only comes into play after an employer in Australia has chosen you. Nobody applies for a work permit without an offer letter, and nobody gets an offer letter without an interview. The order is fixed:

  1. Step 1 · what EDZER does
    A strong résumé, a strong LinkedIn, and a job search strategy
  2. Step 2
    Interview calls from employers in Australia
  3. Step 3
    An offer, and the eligibility checks that come with it
  4. Step 4
    Only now: the visa, the permit and the documents below

Sponsored places rose but the regional programme was cut and NSW nomination closed, so the employer-sponsored route carries more of the load and employers are selective about who they nominate. Step one is the whole game, and it is the part almost everyone under-invests in.

How a résumé is expected to look in Australia

Australian convention: no photograph, two to three pages is accepted, a career summary at the top, and a response to selection criteria where a posting asks for one.

Where people actually apply

Workforce Australia · LinkedIn · SEEK · Indeed Australia

What EDZER does for step one
  • Your résumé, rewritten for the country. In the format its recruiters expect, by a human writer, with a 90 to 100 ATS score guaranteed
  • Your LinkedIn profile, rebuilt. Every section written so recruiters searching there find you and read on
  • Profiles on that country's job portals. Set up and optimised to match, so every application reads the same
  • A job search strategy document. Which roles, which employers, which portals, in what order, for your profile
  • An interview prep kit. For the roles you are targeting, so the calls turn into offers
  • Guidance on where and how to apply for jobs. From our team, so you are not guessing which door to knock on
What EDZER does not do
  • Visa or work permit applications, or immigration advice of any kind
  • Document attestation or credential evaluation
  • Placing you in a job or promising an offer: the recruiter decides selection, on your profile

Our job is to make sure you are presented in the strongest way possible, so that the interview calls come. What happens in the interview is yours.

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Section 01

Skills in Demand, the thresholds, and the clock you must not reset

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Australia spent 2026 quietly rewriting its own hierarchy. The 2026 to 2027 program adds about fourteen thousand employer sponsored places and cuts regional by nearly nineteen thousand. New South Wales has closed its state nomination for the year and is telling applicants to look elsewhere. If you are planning around points and a state, you are planning around the part of the system that is shrinking.

The practical hierarchy, in order

  1. Find a sponsoring employer. That is now the dominant route, by design.
  2. Clear the Specialist Skills income threshold if you possibly can. It is the single biggest processing advantage in the system: a median of 15 days against 4 months.
  3. Treat subclass 186 Temporary Residence Transition as your permanent residence route, and do not change employers mid clock, because since 29 November 2025 that resets your two years.
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Points, states, and where the places actually went

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Section 03

Skills assessment, English, regulators, costs and the Australian resume

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