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Employment Opportunities

Once you have secured your Australian Visa with work rights, the next step is to go and find employment!

We recommend some of the following websites for employment for most skilled occupations or temporary vacancies.

www.workplace.gov.au
www.jobguide.dest.gov.au
www.seek.com.au
www.job-directory.com.au
www.autopages.com.au
www.bluecollar.com.au
www.mycareer.com.au
www.careerone.com.au
www.monster.com.au
www.bojob.com.au
www.jobsjobsjobs.com.au

You can also visit the following Australian Newspapers which are a good source for jobs.

The Advertiser (Adelaide)
The Age (Melbourne)
The Australian (Sydney/Canberra)
The Australian Financial Review (Sydney)
The Canberra Times
The Courier-Mail (Brisbane)
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
Herald-Sun (Melbourne)
The Mercury (Hobart)
The Sydney Morning Herald
The West Australian (Perth)
The South Western Times (Bunbury)

Trades Occupations that are currently in big demand in Australia include:

• Automotive Electrician
• Baker
• Boat Builder and Repairer,
• Bricklayer
• Cabinetmaker
• Carpenter
• Carpenter and Joiner
• Cook
• Drainer
• Electrical Powerline Tradesperson
• Electrician (Special Class)
• Electronic Equipment Tradesperson
• Fibrous Plasterer
• Fitter
• Floor Finisher
• Furniture Upholsterer
• Gasfitter
• General Electrician
• General Electronic Instrument –Tradesperson
• General Plumber
• Hairdresser
• Joiner
• Lift Mechanic
• Mechanical Services and Air-conditioning
• Plumber Metal Fabricator (Boilermaker)
• Metal Machinist (First Class)
• Motor Mechanic
• Panel Beater
• Pastry Cook
• Pressure Welder
• Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Mechanic
• Roof Plumber
• Roof Slater and Tiler
• Solid Plasterer
• Sheetmetal Worker (First Class)
• Stonemason
• Toolmaker
• Vehicle Body Maker
• Vehicle Painter
• Wall and Floor Tiler
• Welder (First Class)

12 Month WHM Visa Applicants

If you have secured your 12 month WHM Visa, you can pick up work in bars, building and construction, child care, catering, café and restaurants, fruit picking and packing, get cash quickly by doing harvest work, cattle and farm work, tree planting, felling or mining, fishing and pearling, work which will enable you to secure a second work visa so long as you work long enough!

Make sure you take a couple of copies of your CV and some references, even take a disc of it or have it on the web, so you can email it and register with numerous employment agencies.

Get a bank account as soon as possible, so employers can pay you – contact us and we will organise you one!

You will also need to get yourself a Tax File Number (TFN). You will need to give this to your employer otherwise you will be taxed at the emergency rate of 48.5% on your pay instead of the usual rate of between 15-30%. You will also be able to claim some if not all your tax back on your departure by having a TFN - contact us and we will organise you one!

In Australia, 'superannuation' (called pension in other countries), whereby employers must pay 9% of what you earn into a fund for retirement. This 9% will be in addition to what the employer pays you.

You can't retrieve this money until you are old enough to retire or under other special circumstances, however as a foreigner, when you leave Australia you can get all your superannuation contributions back – contact us and we’ll tell you how!