It is widely known in Australia that people who arrive from overseas, but particularly from Asia have poor skills despite the fact that many have degrees from universities.

The Australian federal government has been attempting to address this issue for many years now spending millions on the problem.

Finding employment for such people, even though they have passed through additional training is near impossible.

I have seen many so-called (usually Asian) IT people and electronics engineers, systems engineers and indeed electrical engineers and more who have little in the way of skills.

They are unemployable in their chosen field and I personally would consider a business centred around supplying them with skills and eventually attempting to obtain jobs for them to be a loss-making enterprise.

The usual complaint they offer that they cannot get employment is "racial discrimination" and they bleat that the Australians will not employ them because of this.

The truth is far different.

Australian employers (and I have been an employer many times) will not hire a foreign trained engineer for $80,000 when they produce little work of value.

Forged resumes from those people is another problem and I have seen forged engineering and IT degrees printed using the linotype printing method (1950's printing method) on home-made paper!!

I even encountered one Chinese engineer who had THREE forged engineering degrees. One simple question usually fells them, for example, what is Kirchoff's voltage law?

I met another woman in interview (an Indian) who also claimed THREE degrees, one was from HARVARD!! She was simple to fell - I asked her what a MOSFET was...

I've met a few of them now and I'm no longer surprised they turn up with multiple degrees and the most fantastic resumes including stints at NASA.

I personally wouldn't waste a femto-second of my time on them.