Australian Employment Policy's Effect on International Students' Jobs

This report investigates the impact of Australia's employment policy on international students' job opportunities. It begins by outlining the policy, which limits international students with valid visas to a maximum of 20 working hours per week, with no restrictions during vacations. The study highlights that this policy has led to job inconveniences, as employers are hesitant to hire students due to inconsistent labor supply, and that it has also resulted in a scarcity of job opportunities and a mismatch between job requirements and student labor provision. The research aims to determine the impact of this policy on international students' job prospects, outlining the policy, identifying the formulating body, determining available jobs and their requirements, and assessing the policy's effects. The report will utilize both primary data, through interviews and questionnaires, and secondary data from government websites, academic journals, and scholarly articles. The data analysis will employ text analysis, including data transcription, organization, interpretation, and conclusion. The research timeline spans several weeks, covering objectives, protocol design, data collection, transcription, analysis, and report preparation. The findings aim to reveal the extent to which the employment policy is affecting the choices of international students considering Australian higher education.

Running Head: The effects of employment policy on international students in Australia
EFFECT OF EMPLOYMENT POLICY ON JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA
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The effects of employment policy on international students in Australia
Statement of problem
For quite some time, the Australian employment policy has caused numerous effects to job
opportunities for international students who opt to study in Australia. This policy states that
international students who study in Australia and have valid Visa card, have the permission to
work for at most 20 hours within a week with no limit of working hours during vacations.
This policy was stipulated by the department of jobs and small businesses which is clad with
the mandate for job creation and management (Deeming & Smyth, 2017). However this
policy gives an opportunity for these students to earn at least some income for their upkeep,
the working hours are very few, less than a day in a week.
Research on the study topic shows that 12.7% of students who get invitations to study in
Australia get disappointed by the employment policy and as a result turn down the invitation.
This employment policy and other conduct instructions are given to the students during Visa
card application. As a result, many refuse to give in to the invitation (Harvey, 2014). Other
students, on arrival to respective institutions, get frustrated by the policy and opt out of the
university to try their luck in other countries.
What is the impact of the employment policy on job opportunities for these students?
Various impacts have been associated with this policy about job opportunities. First and
foremost, this policy has brought about job inconveniences (Mak & Brown, 2014). Now that
these students are only allowed to work up to a maximum of 20 hours a day, employers tend
to shy away from acquiring them as their employees due to inconsistency in labor supply
(Olsen, Burgess, & Sharma, 2015). Again, job opportunities for these students have become
too scarce over time. Employers tend to acquire more permanent labor as opposed to
temporary input. Due to this reason, these students are hardly getting jobs.

The effects of employment policy on international students in Australia
In addition to this, research shows that there is a massive mismatch between the requirements
of job and labor. Sometimes an employee may be requiring a more significant human
resource input than an international student can provide. In this case, therefore, students will
hardly get jobs as those jobs will rarely match their labor provision criteria. As a result of
these impacts and inconsistencies, many international students shy away from studying in
Australia and opt for other countries like the United States, Canada, New Zealand,
Switzerland, among other countries with more favorable policies (Rogen, 2014). It is in this
regard, therefore, that it becomes very imperative to research on this topic and unveil this
menace that’s driving international students out of Australian Universities.
The aim of this researches it to show the impacts of the Australian employment policy on job
opportunities for international students who choose to study in Australian higher education
institutions. The objectives of this research are:
1. Knowing the Australian employment policy
2. Identification of the body that formulates employment policy.
3. Determination of the jobs available for international students and their requirements.
4. Determination of the impacts on job opportunities for international students as a result
of the employment policy.

The effects of employment policy on international students in Australia
References
Deeming, C., & Smyth, P. (2017). Social investment after neoliberalism: policy paradigms and
political platforms. Journal of social policy, 17-20.
Harvey, P. (2014). Securing the right to employment: Social welfare policy and the unemployed in
the United States. Princeton University Press, 70-74.
Mak, A., & Brown, P. (2014). Contact and attitudes toward international students in Australia:
Intergroup anxiety and intercultural communication emotions as mediators. Journal of cross-
cultural psychology, 55-57.
Olsen, A., Burgess, Z., & Sharma, R. (2015). The comparative academic performance of
international students in Australia. International Higher Education, 54-62.
Rogen, M. (2014). Review of Indigenous Training and Employment (Australia): creating parity. The
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 50-62.

The effects of employment policy on international students in Australia
Data sources
For this research, both primary and secondary data will be used. Primary data will be sought
through interviews and questionnaires. Both the affected and unaffected students will be
interviewed to get their view on the same. Surveys will be appropriately used to gather
crucial information that can solely be so acquired.
Secondary data will be acquired from the government website, i.e., department of jobs and
small businesses. This information is readily available online and will, therefore, be readily
Accessible. Other crucial and relevant information will be acquired from scholarly articles,
academic journals, and websites. After data collection, the analysis will be done to find out
the impacts registered to job opportunities for these students. This analysis will finally
determine whether these impacts are as a result of the employment policy.
Data analysis
Text analysis criterion will be used to analyze the acquired data to bring precise
interpretation. The steps that will be followed therefore for this text data analysis will be:
Step 1: Data transcription: all the data collected verbally through speech shall be converted to
words and put down on a paper. Any other form of data shall be converted to text.
Step 2: Data organization: all opinions, suggestions, and commends shall be sorted and
grouped depending on relevance and similarity.

The effects of employment policy on international students in Australia
Step 3: data interpretation: after a systematic analysis of the transcripts and grouping
comments based on their similarly, this information will be interpreted to derive meaning out
of it.
Step 4: Conclusion and recommendations: after getting the meaning of the acquired
information, conclusion, suggestions for future study and predictions shall be made.
The research timetable
The proposed timetable for the research is as follows
Activity Estimated time
Coming up with research objectives One day
Designing a research protocol One day
Getting interviewees Two weeks
Data collection One week
Transcription of recordings One week
Translation of transcripts One week
Preliminary analysis in the field Two days
Preparation for presentation One day

The effects of employment policy on international students in Australia
Completion of analysis 1-2 weeks
Preparation of report One day