Introduction

I moved to Australia recently (since Aug 2011) after I joined Readify team in Melbourne, VIC. I have to say since then it has been a great experience in such short time.

Readify is hiring national wide & overseas. For overseas candidates; Readify will sponsor you to come & work with them in Australia. Why don’t you read about our recruitment process?

About Readify

Readify was founded in 1999. Since this time they have established themselves as certified experts on the .NET Application Development Platform within Australia.

You can read more about Readify here.

Australia is a great multicultural country. Readify is tiny version of that. It’s a multicultural environment company. Over 30 nationalities working here at Readify. All gifted, talented software development geeks. Many of us are also community activists in different areas around Microsoft technologies.

So it’s a multicultural company of smart people from all over the world. It’s diversity in culture with equal opportunity to everyone.

Readify is hiring

Mohamed Meligy an Egyptian fellow working at Readify team in Sydney, NSW posted a cool blog post about this topic “Hey, Readify is hiring all across Australia, from all over the world!”. It’s a good to read post if you want to know few more about Readify. You’ll read about different iconic smart people working at Readify. An I guarantee that it’s just a very small sample. A blog post won’t be enough to cover all of them and  their contribution to developer communities.

Readify is hiring national wide & overseas. For overseas candidates; Readify will sponsor you to come & work with them in Australia. Why don’t you read about our recruitment process?

Have a look at the available positions (Sr. Developers, Sr. Consultants)in different Australian states. Then go ahead and apply online or send your CV to careers@readify.net. And if you have any question contact our recruitment manager.

One thing I want to highlight, Senior developers are consultants at the end of the day. Read positions description of each available position to know the differences between both.

Why Readify

The main reason I decided to get out of the Middle East was the management and the way people think and work in my home region.

I had my expectations for Readify too. I used to have a friend who used to work with Readify. From what he told me I decided to apply.

Readify exceeded my expectations from different aspects. It’s very comfortable working environment. What I mean by environment is that they give you the choices and help you to get what you wish to work on. You just need to keep your working profile up to date.

They assist you in your Professional Development through their PD program. They will give you the time, you just need to start it. It’s your career PD at the end of the day.

They invest in you because they believe in your capabilities and skills. They support you and assist you to do things the right way in a standard way during your engagement with different clients.

Depending on your engagement. You could work on client site, or from home, of maybe in different state. So many options with different project types using different Microsoft technologies.

For example, my first engagement (~3 months) I was using MVC3, IoC, CSS3 & JavaScript. My current engagement (could reach ~6 months) I’m using WPF4, WCF4, MEF, EF4.1, IoC & many other things.

Which state I should work in?

I’ve worked in 2 States since I arrived. First engagement for 2.5 months was in Perth, WA –Western Australia-. And then moved back to my home state Melbourne, VIC –Victoria-.

Perth is a wonderful city. I guess they call it the Sun city. Its weather is awesome. I have to say being in Australia the weather is challenging. But living in Perth you are in what I called normal Middle Eastern weather, its not the gulf region weather and also not messy winter weather.

The government of WA in Perth is trying to make it’s people happy to attract population. Lot’s of free events, free transportation regions –transits-  and many other things. It is a wonderful city I must say.

Readify team WA is really cool. I believe I met most of them in different gatherings and also during my engagement. Yes WA team loves to meet frequently. And when another Readifian member from different state is visiting, they have to celebrate this day somehow. I really enjoyed being with them.

My home city Melbourne, VIC. This is where I belong & I love it. Well it’s my home. I must love it.

Other available states are QLD, Queensland (city of Brisbane) & New South Wales, NSW (city of Sydney). I don’t know much about those 2 states as I never been there. But anyplace in Australia is a good place to live in.

Egyptian developers, you should try to apply

As I’m Egyptian. And I’ve worked with many good developers in Egypt. I believe we do have many talented developers that would meet Readify expectations. And you should know that expectations are high. Readify works by standards. And they strictly follow these standards to guarantee the delivery of high quality software development services.

You don’t have to worry. The recruitment process will decide if you’ll fit or not.All you need is to apply. Give it a shot and leave the rest to the recruitment team. You should know that the process itself is a good experience to have with Readify.

My experience, I applied back in 2008 and I failed at code review stage. And I reapplied in 2010 & passed. You can apply in 6 months –or as they advise you-. That was just me who took too long to reapply.