Arrive at the holiday village that is about to work at noon to stay here, the accommodation room that provides for free here, after lying in bed, still decided to get up quickly to write this article, because I really want to write my six-year journey to find a job for you. Even if a word can be useful to you, less detours, it is also a success.
Before I officially start my job search, I still have to nag a few words.
- I`m not good at saving money, so my experience may not help your friends with savings goals in Australia, but you can read on, because at least looking at my experience will let you know how to avoid losing money.
- My experience is one of the most ordinary and ordinary backpackers of the 5000 working vacations in China every year, and the jobs are also very ordinary.
- As for finding a job in Australia, I have two principles. First, I must not be lazy. It is because of my preparation for laziness at home that I have been in Australia for two months. Second can rely on oneself never rely on others, I have never asked in the group who has a job to help introduce. There are two friends who have helped me in looking for a job in the past six months, and I will keep it in mind all the time.
- Before I came to Australia, I sat in my office for eight years and got my visa, and I thought: when I come to Australia, I`m not going anywhere. I`m heading straight to the farm, so I`m afraid that people will say that I can`t bear the pain of hypocrisy. Half a year later, my current principle is not to go to the farm, I admit that I just can not bear hardship.
Arriving at Perth
Reality splashed me with ice.
On April 11, 2018, I left Guangzhou and arrived at Perth Airport for more than 20 hours on Cool Airlines. This is my first time in Australia, got off the plane to go to the youth, rolled down the window, Perth`s night view from my eyes, even the air is sweet.
The evening wind moved my heart, and the song in the car I still remember how beautiful the lyrics of: Five Hundred Miles, were: listen to the siren that stretches a hundred miles, a hundred miles and a hundred miles, and drive me away. At that moment, romantic feelings surrounded me, my eyes full of ignorance of excitement and excitement. I had no idea that the next day I was completely defeated by reality, and only then did I know that it was not as easy as I thought it would be to work in Australia and find a job, even moving bricks from the farm.
As soon as I arrived in the evening, I opened a link to a web site called backpack inn in the domestic collection, which contained all kinds of farm employment information, and I thought at the time, it is not OK to find a farm directly to work, how simple it is to find a job.
The way the backpack inn was recruited was to leave a message at the bottom of the post. That night, I attached my personal information to almost all the recent farm job posts, and since then, I haven`t received a reply to this day.
Backpack inn to find a job this channel, we should not consider.
Less than one night after immersing in the excitement of arriving in Australia, I started. I didn`t prepare anything at home. I collected a backpack inn site, and who knew there was no job at all on this site. I hurriedly opened some of the previous collection of job-hunting strategies, but this time it is too late, I also like a headless fly, like a gourd painting ladle, do not know their direction and objectives, put a lot of resume, stone. Daily swipe domestic credit card hard life, sent to domestic friends social app said that he may not persist, want to return to the country.
Just then, I knew there was a change of sleep, was I not very stupid, in order to save the cost of accommodation, I first bought the members of Hlepx, muddled to find a Host, to go to the Margaritte River to change their sleep foolishly. This bitter experience will not be mentioned. My idea was, at least I didn`t have to pay for a meal, and I used that time to start looking for a job.
I opened the social app collection of other people`s job hunting strategies, put a lot of r é sum é s in their way, all stony, later seized a life-saving straw, found on Facebook a special agent for farm employment. He said that in mid-May there was an orange packing job north of Perth, an hourly salary of $22.86, and there was no hesitation to report personal information. Who knew it was a trap.
Because of the poor accommodation conditions, I only stayed in Perth for a week before I returned to Perth. I thought, anyway, I could earn some money from work in mid-May. I went back to Perth to stay in the youth first and see if I could find some temporary jobs. It felt like everything was starting to get better.
Source of work: 58.com
A job that doesn`t count as a job: babysitting
Back in Perth`s bed, with his bank card and tax number, he was more relaxed than he was when he came to Australia.
I thought to myself: packaging oranges in mid-May started work, and now there are more than 10 days left, so hurry to continue looking for work. At this time, I know the 58.com International Edition, and there is also the same employment information as that in China. When I opened it, I texted all the calls, and a man answered me that night.
It`s not exactly a job, because it`s only $100 a week, but I just need to stay at home from 3 pm to 8 pm every day.
The employer was a Fujian couple who had emigrated to Australia very early and had two children, a 7-year-old and a 5-year-old girl. Because the couple opened a restaurant, they didn`t have time to stay at home with their children at night. The Australian government rules that children can`t be at home alone, and they have to have adults. That`s why they asked me to go.
Two little boys after school, the sun set, the yard light is very good, I taught them to take pictures with cameras, they are very happy. They were born and raised in Australia, and there is no shortage of material life. They speak English since childhood, and in education, like Australian local children, they go home from school and play without any burden, but because their parents do business all the year round. What they lack most is companionship.
This is my first paid "job" in Australia. In Perth Warwick, there is a room of my own that eats very well three meals a day, because my parents open a Chinese restaurant, so every time they bring back a great meal, I sort of followed the kids. Because I like children very much, so I have had a very happy time, and I don`t have to work. Every day, at that time, just at home, that is, during this period, the agent packing orange recruitment said in social app, I`m sorry. The job was cancelled.
How ridiculous it is that we`ve been waiting so long for you to cancel with a word of cancellation. It`s so unreliable. Who knows he has recommended to another agent the people in our entire social app group waiting for this job. This job is to go to a strawberry farm in a town called Pemperton in the south to pick strawberries, counting how much money he earns from picking a basket of strawberries. Everyone knows that the novice can hardly earn money for his piece-counting work, but how can that be done? after a month`s visit to Australia, he has not yet taken the step of going out to work to earn money, so at this time, no matter whether it is sword hill or the sea of fire, I went through the fire without saying anything, and no one could stop me.
In this way, I quit my child-care "job", worked for 20 days, took more than 200 yuan salary, started my real "work" life in Australia.
Source of work: Facebook
Bitter and happy to pick strawberries for a month
In fact, this method of finding a job is not really an experience to learn from, because this is the lowest and simplest way to find a job: in Facebook, in your city, find a job group, and add some intermediary social app,. They recommend you a farm job.
In this way, the agent who had introduced an hourly job in orange packaging pushed us back to his friend, another agent, but the job was piece-by-piece, and it was difficult to recruit. I came to this town in a bus with a northeast girl I met on Facebook. The intermediary who introduced us to work was a Malaysian Chinese, who was not tall, spoke very little, and was nice. Sometimes things are childish. He asked his co-workers to drive us to where we lived-a cabin in the forest.
There was no cell phone signal, and the strawberry farm was about five minutes away from work. There are five or six small wooden houses scattered in the forest, and the landlord is an Australian native. The agent rents these cabins down and rents them to those of us who come to work. Each bed is 100 bucks a week, and he won`t make any money from our wages. And earn some money from the rent.
In this cabin, we live in six WHVer, from different cities in China, working together every day, cooking and chatting together after work. Although there is no cell phone signal, we have no money to buy a car when we first arrive, and we are "imprisoned" in this small forest all day long. But in fact, good, after all, there are so many people of the same age together, it is not too lonely.
When I arrived at the strawberry farm in mid-May, the weather in the south began to get colder in early June, with fewer and fewer strawberries. I used to push the car from 7: 00 a.m. to 2: 00 p.m., and I could earn up to $100, but then the working hours became less and less. 11:00 every day is almost off work, sometimes a day work can take two days, many strawberry farm workers have resigned.
Our cabin.
A shed for picking strawberries
Push the car between rows and pick strawberries, so they can be grown on shelves without bending over.
Picked strawberries in the basket, not a basket of about $5, every day after the end of the less than a basket of strawberries can be brought home to eat.
The plucked strawberries were placed in a plastic box, weighed on an electronic scale, and placed in a green basket.
A place to live.
Cabin backyard
Once a week, the agent sent us to the supermarket in the town to buy it free of charge.
Although this job sometimes feels tired and tired of pushing cars and running, but the good thing is not to bend over, this kind of tiredness is the tiredness of the body, plus the excitement of coming to Australia at that time has not passed, I feel that although I can`t earn any money, all the others are fine. And I don`t miss home. One day it rained heavily that I didn`t have a raincoat. Although I couldn`t pick strawberries in the shed, I was caught in the rain when I went to the other shed, and the ground was covered with mud and the shoes were full of water. At that moment, I was really depressed. I do not know that I have been desperate to choose to travel to work, whether it is right or wrong.
In mid-June, several of us discussed this leave, and I contacted social app, an intermediary I added to Facebook, and I said that a strawberry farm north of Perth was hired as a wrapper, a black worker paying cash, and a piece-by-piece job. But the weather in the north is still very warm, it is strawberry peak season, will earn more.
At that time, we were tired of the unhindered outdoor farm job, and although the packing job was a piece of work, it was always indoors, and closer to Perth, when it was convenient to watch a car and buy a car, everyone resigned together and went back to Perth.
Source of work: Facebook
Packed strawberries at Perth Strawberry Factory and bought the first car.
Specifically, the source of the job is Facebook. I remember when I first came to Perth, I posted a job post in the Perth group on Facebook. A netizen left me a message and I was social app, recommended me to the agent he knew. This is the strawberry farm to introduce packaging agent, a Hong Kong girl who has been here for many years.
When we arrived at the strawberry packing farm, the accommodation was even worse, because we had no car, and we were placed in the dormitory in the factory area. A small black house had two bunks up and down and could not turn around. There were nothing but four beds in the room, and there were no windows.
At this time, several other strawberry-picking colleagues, two boys in downtown Perth found a factory job, three want to go to the north of East Australia to collect second sign, everyone separated.
Then I was left alone in the dorm, and the agent introduced me to the house of a local Australian landlord she knew, with a weekly rent of 85 Australian dollars and two beds in one room, but I was the only one in the room for the half-month I lived. Still more happy. In the other room, a roommate and I worked in a strawberry factory, when I didn`t have a car and got off work in her car for $5 a day.
After picking strawberries from the south, not counting the credit card arrears, I had 1000 dollars in my Australian bank card. During this period, I broke the boat and used all my savings and borrowed some money to buy the first car in Australia at $2000 (the next part of the introduction to buy a car). Because at that time I could not bear the day without a car. When I bought the car, I was really happy. For the first time, I went on a short Roadtrip trip with my acquaintance (the two roommates who picked strawberries) to see the stars and the sunrise at the seaside of the Indian Ocean, and it began to get better.
But I didn`t like the job. It was the peak season at that time, working 12 hours a day nine in the morning and nine hours a day, waking up to work every day and going home to sleep after work. 12 hours of body really couldn`t bear it, and it was very difficult to ask for leave. The packaging assembly line is also very painful, every box of strawberries, as long as there is a little bit wrong, the supervisor will be in front of the speaker will constantly call you to get back the strawberry with your color number repackaged, this will only make you slower and slower, and you wrap on the side. The horn in front of me kept shouting all kinds of colors, so that I was very broken.
Production Line of Strawberry Packaging Plant
At that time, I began to set two signatures, the car also bought, and I resigned with the agent, ready to drive to the card (Carnarvon) to set two signatures. After I resigned from the strawberry packing factory, I had $600 in my pocket, and I was thinking, how could I not make any money? Before coming to Australia, I thought I would be able to break a thousand weekly salary, but now it still seems to be far away.
Workplace: card lette
For the first time, the weekly salary was broken, and the life of working and vacationing really began.
Just arrived at the card when the letter was not smooth, once held to want to return to the country, this stubble not to mention, mainly talk about my two-sign these jobs.
Waitress at River Gums Coffee shop, with an hourly salary of $22.86. A man swept the farm that day and was driven out by the wolf dog, but I had no way out. I had to go on with it. At this time, I was sitting in the car swiping Facebook card, the group built by the locals,: Carnarvon Noticeboard, and someone just posted a post about hiring a waitress at the, River Gums Cafe. I hurried to drive and ran over. The boss didn`t ask. Just say come to work the next day. It`s the easiest job I`ve ever done in Australia. It`s so easy that I can`t believe it. Every day it`s a dish looking at a guest`s smiling face, washing dishes and cutting fruit.
Banana farm packing, hourly salary 22.86. At the coffee shop on Tuesday, the boss asked me if I would like to go to her son`s packing factory to pack bananas. Of course I would. How can I let go of this good opportunity to make money? facts have proved that packaging bananas is too easy, as long as you stand there. In the shed, the wind can`t blow to rain, and it`s clean. The boss never let me do such a heavy job as carrying the box.
In the days of Kara`s letter, I rented a room for myself, went to work every day, cooked my own food, and gradually calmed down my heart. I wrote the first article about a part-time holiday:
The day I signed the second sign in the card:
The story of the River Gums Cafe.
Spice farms pick coriander, onions, basil, etc., with an hourly salary of $20.
At that time, I resigned from the coffee shop with a very tangled mood, because the job was so easy that the banana boss went on vacation. One day there was no working hour, and the coffee shop business was not very good, and it was always resting. I need to collect two signatures, then a total of 15 hours a week, I really can not, I do not want to waste time, I quit ruthlessly.
The job was posted to the Facebook card group when I first arrived, and a farmer left me a message. When I got a job at a coffee shop, I turned her down. Then I asked her again if she needed someone, and she did, and I went to work.
Because spices grow so fast that they can`t be picked every day, the working hours are very stable, from 8: 00 a.m. to 6: 00 p.m. You can also choose to get off work at five o`clock. I choose to work at five o`clock every day because it is too tired to bend over for a day.
One day in the yellow land, and one day bending over, I almost collapsed, vowing not to step into the farm half a step in my life as long as I got another job. Here I met a good friend in Kana, a very good girl, Xinjiang, who told me that the Bestwestern motel hired a cleaner, and I actually saw the news on the Facebook group and sent a resume. But there is no following. The girl told me that you must insist on going a few more times before there is any hope.
In this way, I personally went to the front desk to send my resume four times, and finally got the job. An hourly salary of $24.
Here`s my previous article:
When I was a janitor in Australia,
Because the motel only worked half a day, I went on working on the farm for more than a dozen days, and agreed with my boss that every afternoon would go by. At this time, I finally realized briefly that the weekly salary was broken, but it was not good, it was very hard, and then I quit my farm job, went to the motel every morning to work as a cleaner, and came back in the afternoon to write nothing. In a twinkling of an eye, by the end of October, my two-sign hours were almost enough, so I bought a return ticket and resigned, started a road trip, returned to Perth, and returned to the embrace of the motherland.
At this time, my Australian bank card has a deposit of $10, 000. Although I have been in Australia for half a year, I do not earn much money, but at least it is better than myself. After all, I only had $1200 in my pocket when I first arrived. Before returning home, I took a trip by car alone, bought Apple`s latest mobile phone, bought round-trip tickets, and bought gifts for my family. This little hard-earned money was almost flaunted.
Back to Australia.
A resort on the south side of Western Australia, one room per person.
After a month of eating, drinking and having fun at home, I returned to Australia at the end of November, different from the novelty and excitement when I first landed on the ground. To tell the truth, this time when I arrived in Australia, I had a deep loss and suddenly felt that I had enough to play. Everything used to make me crazy about the strange scenery now become so boring, I just want to return to China, but compared to the first time, more calm and calm, know their own direction. After all, there are so many social app fans to support me, even if I write here, it is not a waste of these days.
The second time I landed in Australia, I chose the familiar Western Australia. Why, because I have been in Perth and the north of Western Australia in the first half of the year, and I have not been to the south. Moreover, it is now Australia`s summer, and it is also the peak tourist season in the south. There should be job opportunities, and on-line view of the south of Western Australia is still very beautiful, so there is no hesitation to choose to return to Western Australia, to the south of Western Australia.
So my first year of Australia will be complete, the whole of Western Australia has been basically experienced, the next year can go to East Australia.
Source of work: Google Maps
This time in China, I am not lazy, my goal is to vote in the domestic resume, no matter whether or not to find a job, after all, I should do, there is no regret. It turned out that there was always a payoff. After I put in hundreds of resumes, a resort finally replied that I needed someone, who would have needed a telephone interview, because my Australian phone was down, and they couldn`t call the number in my country. Send me a direct e-mail to report on November 22nd, official work on the 23rd.
Specific method:
Download a vpn application in China. Open Google Maps, search for hotel-related keywords like HOTEL,Motel,resort,roadhouse, and sign all the hotels you want to find with an asterisk.
As shown in the picture, this time I want to come to the south of Western Australia, I will all the hotels in the south with yellow asterisks, although it does not look much, but many are overlapping, in fact, I probably marked hundreds of.
Click on each asterisk and Google Maps will display their home address, click on it to find their home email, and send in pre-prepared Coverletter and PDF attachments. Add some polite words at the beginning and end to show sincerity. If you want to go, throw every day and stick to it for a week.
In fact, in two simple steps, you can find a regular, native Australian job. In that case, why don`t you give it a try!
Today came to the hotel report, the manager enthusiastically introduced me to every employee, everyone warmly shook hands with me hug. The resort is similar to the Bestwestern model I used to do in Kanaofen. It`s a guest room plus restaurant with a bar that looks formal and should be the largest resort in this tourist village. Free accommodations, $5 a meal, $11 pizza per employee, four hours of work free staff beer, coffee and drinks.
As I sat in my resort room, the whole world was mute, looking forward to a new life that was about to begin, and thinking of home every minute. True loneliness I am completely experienced, once so yearning to be alone, the real experience to know that this feeling is not good, need a strong heart. Fortunately, I have friends in the social app platform to support me, encourage me, so that I have the motivation to write in my spare time, but also some things to do, so that I am not so lonely.
In a few days apply for second sign, if the second sign goes down smoothly, I will work here 5 months or so, and then return home. The next year I plan to go to East Australia, but I just go around casually and don`t let myself be so nervous anymore. There are many big cities and opportunities in East Australia. If you can find a guide and edit the relevant work for a period of time, if you can`t find it, Just play in East Australia and return home.
Because I`ve had enough of it, and I want to go home.
So far, my job search experience in Australia has been fully reported. I do not know if I can be competent for this job because my colleagues are native Australians, and I am relatively introverted. I have just arrived today. I put myself in the room all afternoon, also blame this room is so comfortable, there is such a comfortable bed, who would like to go out!
Supplementary content
About resumes, about material preparation, etc.
A copy of Coverletter, I never knew how to write this thing, and then I used to give a brief account of myself in English, such as where I came from, what kind of visa I was holding. Domestic work experience (preferably a little bit of help in Australia), own specialties, personality traits, and work experience in Australia (if not, write about being good at doing housework, etc.)
A PDF version of the resume, and then print the resume several copies of the paper with.
Facebook app: after downloading and registering, search Google Maps for the names of several cities or towns you want to go to (most of the jobs in small towns are regular white workers, easy to save money, and more reliable, so I like to live in small towns. More comfortable, the surrounding scenery is also more beautiful, rest time can go to travel, although a bit boring. (there are too many black jobs in big cities), write down the names of places you want to go, and search for groups on Facebook: keywords such as small town name job/work, there will be a lot of group names similar to the QQ group. All local work information sharing groups, click to join the group, pending approval.
After approval to enter, all the information sent by the local people to recruit workers should be browsed through, and even those who have expired must be shot down. Since his family has previously recruited staff, it means that people may be recruited in the future. After screenshots of all posts about recruitment, follow the email or phone number left above and send your resume through the email. Remember, in order to find a favorite job, do not be lazy!
Google Maps app: download a Google Map, see how to see above.
Download the Gumtree app (need Apple Australia ID, domestic Apple Market does not have this APP), search JOB column above, search the place you want to go or job title, choose what you are interested in, check to see if there is an e-mail phone or so on. Send out your resume.
I think Facebook is the most convenient, effective and reliable way to find a job, but it is more suitable when you are already in a small town where you post your job information or when you are in two or three days to get there, because some employers need to be hired as soon as possible. You can`t go up in the first place, and they`ll find someone else.
Finally, I wish myself the ability to do this job, as far as possible to overcome their introverts, and more people to communicate;
I also wish WHVer just landed in Australia less detours, looking for work smoothly, truly realize the significance of working vacation, when encountered difficulties, think about why they started at the beginning;
I also wish the WHVer who have found jobs in Australia can have a happy day, make money to travel, and lead the life they want.
If you want to communicate with me about work, life and other things related to working vacation, welcome to leave messages in the backstage. I will check them frequently and reply in time. Thank you for your support and encouragement. Let me find the meaning of working in Australia on holiday!
The job has stabilized these days, and I`ll start writing: Australia`s car-buying experience / second entry-baggage lists / work trips that have to be brought with them. Is it a man or a company? / everyone has a small hotel facing the sea (I went to visit the owner of that small hotel yesterday, and I didn`t think he really had a story, His father, a survivor of the famous PQ17 flotilla destruction in World War II, whose story is a typical story of British immigrants, is ready to sell a small hotel, an ocean-facing outsider that is actually not expensive. But I can`t afford to buy it, wait until the time to read my article, but I`m afraid my English is too bad, I`m sorry about this material, I`m worried that I can`t write this article well.
Good night!:)
