Past experience doesn’t always count for asylum seekers when they apply for work in Australia. Shutterstock/Tero Vesalainen November 4, 2019 Asylum seekers left ‘desperate’ and ‘helpless’ when they try to find work in Australia Kiros Hiruy, Swinburne University of Technology; Megerssa T Walo, Swinburne University of Technology, and Rebecca Willow-Anne Hutton, Swinburne University of Technology No matter how skilled or qualified they are, asylum seekerd say they’ve often forced to take whatever basic job they can just to survive.
