The percentage of full-time workers in Australia fell to 49.97 percent last year, compared with 51.37 percent in 2012, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Part-time workers rose from 29.7% in 2012 to 31.7% last year.
In the five years to last year, the number of people looking for more working hours rose sharply, from 7.6 percent to 9.1 percent; however, the average monthly working hour fell from 141 hours to 139.7 hours.
"Today, for the first time since statistics have been recorded, less than half of Australians are working on permanent, paid leave full-time jobs," said Carney (Tanya Carney) and Stanford (Jim Stanford), economists for the study.
"less than half of Australians can imagine what we used to think of as permanent and well-being jobs." Stanford warns that many young people are contributing to the fact that they may never have a regular job.
Australia has a lot of part-time opportunities, waiters, housemakers, cleaners, cashiers, tellers, sales, etc. The following are the experiences and suggestions of overseas Chinese students:
1. Chinese restaurant waitress
It is extremely hard to be a waitress at a Chinese restaurant. The restaurant business has nothing to do with you. The business is good and does not raise wages. The salary is about $10 an hour or so. It is not recommended to speak English once in a while.
2. Rear chef
The first job is to do dishes, crazy dishes, the boss said after washing dishes to do some simple dishes, fried bacon, French fries work, the salary can rise from $10 to $12, the next three days, I resolutely quit.
At that time, I thought it would be pointless to find a job that could exercise language and spend too much time on unproductive and low-paid jobs.
3. 7 / 11 telle
Then I took advantage of summer vacations and the demand for part-time recruitment in Sydney was high. I got a job at a 7 / 11 convenience store.
The boss is a Chinese, and he told me that he had to do five training sessions at the beginning, 2 times a week, 3 times a week, for 50 dollars (8 hours), and 18 bucks per hour to become a regular worker, in accordance with the regulations of 7-11.
It sounds okay, and I can practice spoken English, so I agree.
Then there is the nightmare experience, the boss has arranged for me all the night shift (11pm-7am) this is 11: 7 ha!
I was trained by Indians and Pakistanis, who liked to be lazy and did a lot of work.
The store is in the city, and the late-night homeless start to wander around, often visiting 7-11, so personal safety at the store is also a concern.
Work very hard, there is little rest time, night shift is mainly to replenish goods, at the same time to greet guests.
Remember every morning shift on the bus home I can easily fall asleep, and then the car may fall off the corner from the seat. After 5 training can become a regular worker?
No, the boss would come by the day to watch the surveillance footage from the night shift before, and then all sorts of nitpicking, saying that the job was not skilled enough, that he had to continue training until he was satisfied, and told me that 18 bucks was not so easy to take, and that he could have hired PR,. CITIZEN, they speak better and know more about local life.
I thought that since your $18 is so difficult to get, I`d better not do it, the obvious is to bully honest people ah.
Later I heard that 7 11 this kind of situation is not uncommon, new students to pay attention to, suffer losses is very difficult to avoid, but can not blindly suffer losses, but also learn to learn lessons.
4. Convenience store telle
After this experience, I went to a non-chain convenience store, and before applying for employment, I first learned about the shop with the shop-goers, mainly involving the workload, the boss`s word of mouth, and the residents around the main composition.
I feel that I can contact my boss and get in touch with him. It`s a lot better to work at this shop. It`s only $14 per hour, but the workload is much less than 7 / 11.
There are locals around, so there are more opportunities to communicate in English, and you can also learn more about their habits, such as reading newspapers, paying attention to what news, and food preferences.
Get up at 05:30 every morning, pack up, get on the bus and make sure you open the shop before 7: 00. Manage the goods, replenish the goods, and chat with the old customers to sell and sell the goods on the shift at 3: 00 p. M.
The boss is very good, is a pair of Shandong couple, remember the Spring Festival also gave me 50 dollars bonus, hot weather let me eat ice cream in the shop.
I worked on the job for more than two months until the official start of school.
5. Sales
After school was introduced by friends, I started a job in Vodafone sales, which is in a white area, so my job is to speak English, sell cell phone cards, and sell cell phone packages.
This time English improved a lot, also earned a little living expenses, calm, until 16 June, before the final examination of the first semester.
Above about part-time said so much, summed up is to try to find an English-speaking job, students themselves are vulnerable groups, fairness can only be said to be relative.
Good English, IELTS high grades can try English training institutions, the hourly salary can be more than $25 per hour.
Good grades can be seen to do professional courses tutor, school, private institutions can try, wages are not bad.
