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10-12-2009 3:15pm#1
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I'm a guy :Pmandrake04 wrote: »You should consider doing Traffic control ticket. Its true that the girls often find it more difficult to get jobs than the lads ....but they often can work as Traffic Stop/Go chicks on the same gangs.
Me too! Im tryin to stick around til the end of Feb, purely for a gig in Melbourne I really wanna see and will most likely get to meet the bandYep, same here. I'm off home in January because of it.
But I'm well lookin forward to my 150 euro dole
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tonydatiger wrote: »Lads,
Any of you have any links for a sample template for an Australian CV. Or if any of you have any tips on how Australian CV's different from Irish CV's.
Cheers
after seeing a few CV, they don't differ apart from - in the info section state what visa status you have and when expire - this is the first question of non aussies we ask.
if going through and agent, they will take bits out of your cv anyway.
esp the hobbies, as no one cares you like GAA or socialising
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I'm a guy and I'm in IT
On a WHV you will be hard pressed to find certain types of jobs. Especially jobs where females normally work in e.g. retail, office admin. They just wont take you on cause its not worth the hassle having to train them up and then see them leave after 3 months. I am sure there is work but that bit harder to get and more people looking for fewer jobs.
I think the most important thing when coming to OZ is having a contact for a job. If you have family, friends over here make us of them. If you are good on the networking front than you will be fine, if you are not than things will be harder.0 -
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I would'nt say retail is a more female-orientated jobI'm a guy and I'm in IT
On a WHV you will be hard pressed to find certain types of jobs. Especially jobs where females normally work in e.g. retail, office admin. They just wont take you on cause its not worth the hassle having to train them up and then see them leave after 3 months. I am sure there is work but that bit harder to get and more people looking for fewer jobs.
I think the most important thing when coming to OZ is having a contact for a job. If you have family, friends over here make us of them. If you are good on the networking front than you will be fine, if you are not than things will be harder.
Even as a customer I've noticed the staff are mixed, as it does be back home
and I've done different kinds, clothes, electronics, supermarket etc
I honestly think its my visa that's puttin everyone off. I'm gna leave it off my CV completely and see if I hear back this time0 -
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mandrake04 wrote: »No I see men working in retail all the time, just never met any Irish guys on a WHV doing that sort of work. Maybe I hang around the wrong sort of Paddies!! .
I worked in Target which is a large dept. store across Oz similar to penneys I suppose. Worked there for 6 months. I took the job because the hours were pretty flexible and if I did get an interview for something else I could work it into my hours. As it turned out I worked 6 months there and loved it. The people I worked with were really cool and cant wait for me to come back to Perth. Right now Im working in IGA saving as much as I can to hit the east coast.
I think alot of guys dont like the idea of working retail but for me it was that or eat into my savings and go home. Its not that hard to get retail work but its not for everyone. Alot dont like travelling all the way to this side of the world to work a job they did in college or school. I met a few who had graduated college with a business deg. and wouldnt work retail because they were college graduates. They seemed to be doing alot of interviews but no job.
I worked in the construction Industry and was looking for work here but as soon as I arrived the jobs dried up due to the global recession. Jobs werent available as most companies wanted to hold out on hiring new staff to see what would happen. Construction jobs were hard to come by. It was the exception to get one and unless you had an income you couldnt do interviews forever with no end result.
Sorry for the long post but I just felt the retail sector was getting a bit of a bashing. Sure everybody would love to get 42 dollars an hour but to fund the holiday you need cash and interviews and holding out for a better offer dont get you to far.
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I worked in Target which is a large dept. store across Oz similar to penneys I suppose. Worked there for 6 months. I took the job because the hours were pretty flexible and if I did get an interview for something else I could work it into my hours. As it turned out I worked 6 months there and loved it. The people I worked with were really cool and cant wait for me to come back to Perth. Right now Im working in IGA saving as much as I can to hit the east coast.
I think alot of guys dont like the idea of working retail but for me it was that or eat into my savings and go home. Its not that hard to get retail work but its not for everyone. Alot dont like travelling all the way to this side of the world to work a job they did in college or school. I met a few who had graduated college with a business deg. and wouldnt work retail because they were college graduates. They seemed to be doing alot of interviews but no job.
I worked in the construction Industry and was looking for work here but as soon as I arrived the jobs dried up due to the global recession. Jobs werent available as most companies wanted to hold out on hiring new staff to see what would happen. Construction jobs were hard to come by. It was the exception to get one and unless you had an income you couldnt do interviews forever with no end result.
Sorry for the long post but I just felt the retail sector was getting a bit of a bashing. Sure everybody would love to get 42 dollars an hour but to fund the holiday you need cash and interviews and holding out for a better offer dont get you to far.
Good post... Moral of the story any job is better than no job. pride doesn't put $$ in your pocket
I had only mentioned that I knew there were construction jobs in Brissy because I have friends there............ I wouldnt know if there are retail jobs or not. There are jobs always labouring available because lads come to the end of the 6 months and go travelling its a case of making sure you are in the right place at the right time.
Talk of networking......people from farming backgrounds in Ireland have a big advantage and also being a Gaelic footballer can work wonders in Sydney.0 -
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To any lad here wondering what kind "CV" job they are looking for, dont bother. I was the same, back home did a bit of restaurant sh1t in my college days, then a boring office job. Came here during the height of the recession paranoia in early 09 when NOBODY was hiring, did bits and pieces here and there. Dont bother- construcion general labouring is
a- easier to get. Just hang around hostels/ irish bars and make friends with people who will sort you.
b- Usually finished by 3:30. Often 6 days a week if you need it.
c- Way better pay than offices, often cash in hand- either cash or on whats called an ABN (get yourself an Australian Business Number, essentially your services are what you offer as your own company), where you are paid in full and as a self employed businessman and meant to declare your earnings at the end of the tax year, but nobody bothers and there is a 7 year backlog on reviews. God bless the chronically disorganised Aussies
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A year ago I wouldnt have thought I could ever work a site, I was sh1t at woodwork/ metalwork etc in school and reckoned Id be found out. To work labour in Oz all you need to know is that a crowbar is called a matic, a pick up is called a ute, breaktime is called smoko, and essentially you are sorted as long as you can sweep, knock in a wall or two and lift bags of rubble Zero skill. Seriously, stay away from offices, they are death.
Good luck 0
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