Looking for Work in Sydney

Fol20

Hi Guys,

For anyone that has been to Sydney on a WHV, can they recommend any places or recruitment agencies to go to for work in Sydney. Im fairly open minded and would try my hand at any sort of job.

Thanks for the any suggestions guys, arrived in Sydney 5 days ago and would love to start working asap.

pete4130

first Q's are:

What age are you?

What experience or qualifications?

What do you want to work at?


If you want construction, get your white card done asap. It's about $99 1 day course thats almost impossible to fail. You need it for ANY construction work.

If you want to do bar work get your RSA card (responsible service of alcohol). again, about $100 for a 1 day course. Try to do your RSG (responsible service of gambling) combined. It allows yo to work in casinos.

To get started be willing to do anything. Hit everything up, gear each email/CV to the job you are sending it to.

Try gumtree.com.au and www.seek.com.au and just apply apply apply. It can take a few weeks at most to hear something back from someone. It's a big city with lots of competition so be careful with your money/savings until you have an income.

Be aware you can only work for one employer for 6 months on a WHV. If you get offered a 12 month contract, by all means take the job but know you can only stay 6 of those months or risk breach of visa.

Don't rely on emailing applications alone. If there is a phone number, call them. You'll get better responses.


Places like MacDonalds have free wifi for looking up jobs/internet too if you can't get access anywhere else.

If you aren't having much luck in Sydney initially, look to rural work, farming, driving tractors, fruit picking etc so you can start working right away. Make sure its in the appropriate postcode to secure your 2nd year WHV if you want to get it. There is a postcode list online to check. also make sure its the right job for you're 2nd WHV. For a farming/fruit picking job you could be looking at $19 per hour approx, meeting other people in your situation. So you'll make friend to travel with, find work with and get more settled and have the security of knowing you have an extra year here to enjoy it.

All the best!

Alanhooly

pete4130 wrote: »

If you want construction, get your white card done asap. It's about $99 1 day course thats almost impossible to fail. You need it for ANY construction work.

White card is 39 dollars and can be done online in about 2 hours. I'm working in construction now and getting on fine. Had never previously done it and didn't have a clue. A white lie here and there won't hurt to land the Job initially

astonaidan

Google the company techni-clean, Ive forgot the number for them, they have handy work for handy wages. Best say you got it from a guy at a pub so it cant be traced to me though, I left them at a days notice to do east coast
Young Love got me

pete4130

Alanhooly wrote: »

White card is 39 dollars and can be done online in about 2 hours. I'm working in construction now and getting on fine. Had never previously done it and didn't have a clue. A white lie here and there won't hurt to land the Job initially

Some larger companies won't accept an online white card course.

irishmover

pete4130 wrote: »

Some larger companies won't accept an online white card course.

Like who? I've worked on Watpac, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Theiss, XStrata to name a few sites ( albeit four of which were construction on mine sites) and all had no issues with the white card I had. Mine was an online one, I didn't pay for it so dunno how much it was though.

Slunk

Try ciara I think it is in industrious recruitment. She got me two very handy jobs in Sydney. Warehouse work. $25+ p/h

pete4130

I worked with Santos & Fluer who wouldn't accept it, neither would Bechtel or Conoco Phillips on Curtis Island and some smaller independent companies in Sydney. I've had interviews where I've been specifically asked if my white card was on online one or not.

It could depend on who in particular is dealing with your application and the procedures change so much in HR for these companies all the time depending on who the main client is.

irishmover

pete4130 wrote: »

I worked with Santos & Fluer who wouldn't accept it, neither would Bechtel or Conoco Phillips on Curtis Island and some smaller independent companies in Sydney. I've had interviews where I've been specifically asked if my white card was on online one or not.

It could depend on who in particular is dealing with your application and the procedures change so much in HR for these companies all the time depending on who the main client is.

Santos are the most anal shower, I've worked on a site for them but with a sub contractor so never had any trouble with white card just everything else. Bechtel I didn't think would have been that bad considering the inductions you'd have to do anyway for their sites but I never worked directly for Bechtel either.

pete4130

I had issues with going on site for Bechtel over my bridging visa. As its a rolling 90 day visa or something they wouldn't approve me. They only take people with more than 6 months on a visa. It's a good way to stop WHV coming on board.

Santos and Fleur are as bad as each other. Really strict.

The short time I was on Curtis Island with Bechtel I saw a generator come off a tow bar and roll backwards down a hill and off a ramp and a franker knock pallets of rebar over and break a guys leg. There was just a poor safety attitude all round that site for some reason.

Fol20

Slunk wrote: »

Try ciara I think it is in industrious recruitment. She got me two very handy jobs in Sydney. Warehouse work. $25+ p/h

Hi Slunk,

I sent in my cv and ill be calling in on Wednesday for an interview. Fingers crossed i get something:) Thanks for the info.

Fol20

pete4130 wrote: »

first Q's are:

What age are you?

What experience or qualifications?

What do you want to work at?


If you want construction, get your white card done asap. It's about $99 1 day course thats almost impossible to fail. You need it for ANY construction work.

If you want to do bar work get your RSA card (responsible service of alcohol). again, about $100 for a 1 day course. Try to do your RSG (responsible service of gambling) combined. It allows yo to work in casinos.

To get started be willing to do anything. Hit everything up, gear each email/CV to the job you are sending it to.

Try gumtree.com.au and www.seek.com.au and just apply apply apply. It can take a few weeks at most to hear something back from someone. It's a big city with lots of competition so be careful with your money/savings until you have an income.

Be aware you can only work for one employer for 6 months on a WHV. If you get offered a 12 month contract, by all means take the job but know you can only stay 6 of those months or risk breach of visa.

Don't rely on emailing applications alone. If there is a phone number, call them. You'll get better responses.


Places like MacDonalds have free wifi for looking up jobs/internet too if you can't get access anywhere else.

If you aren't having much luck in Sydney initially, look to rural work, farming, driving tractors, fruit picking etc so you can start working right away. Make sure its in the appropriate postcode to secure your 2nd year WHV if you want to get it. There is a postcode list online to check. also make sure its the right job for you're 2nd WHV. For a farming/fruit picking job you could be looking at $19 per hour approx, meeting other people in your situation. So you'll make friend to travel with, find work with and get more settled and have the security of knowing you have an extra year here to enjoy it.

All the best!

Hi Pete,

Iv applied for an RSA course tomorrow. I suppose there is no harm in getting this as well so fingers crossed ill be able to get some sort of work.

Thanks,

Finbarr

Alanhooly

pete4130 wrote: »

Some larger companies won't accept an online white card course.

It has been accepted no problems at the four different sites I have worked at so far.

Anyway, get the white card sorted one way or another and you should be fine!

Mellor

pete4130 wrote: »

Some larger companies won't accept an online white card course.

If the card is issued by Workcover then I'm not sure there is any way to know where or how you did the course.

pete4130

I think the issue is that anybody can do the online course in somebody else's name.

AFAIK with the online course you bring your certificate of completion that you print out and need to get it signed by witness & a JP as a stat dec saying you completed the course and have a witness sign to say they were present when you did the online course. At least thats how it was a few years ago when I did an online white card course.

Some companies don't want to take on the risk of someone having a white card when they didn't actually do the course themselves.

Mellor

pete4130 wrote: »

I think the issue is that anybody can do the online course in somebody else's name.

Some companies don't want to take on the risk of someone having a white card when they didn't actually do the course themselves.

I'd be inclined to agree. There's no guarantee they actually did it at all.

But I don't understand how a company would know if somebody did it online. I'd assume they get the same white card as everyone else.

If that's not the case and it says "online" or whatever. Then obviously it's a different story

mandrake04

Mellor wrote: »

I think you might have the wrong impression about that site. I'm not sure they are bring entirely honest.

Yeah I only realised it wasn't really NSW government after I posted it.

Mellor

mandrake04 wrote: »

Yeah I only realised it wasn't really NSW government after I posted it.

I didn't notice at first. Was only the big price advertisement that made be think about it.
Clearly trying to copy other government sites. Sneaky.

minzabud

I did mine recently online for 59au, it's a Queensland whitecard and Im working on a big site in south australia no problems, I would have done it in person and probably will when I get to a city but it's only on once every few months and a four hour drive away, luck of the draw I guess.

pete4130

minzabud wrote: »

I did mine recently online for 59au, it's a Queensland whitecard and Im working on a big site in south australia no problems, I would have done it in person and probably will when I get to a city but it's only on once every few months and a four hour drive away, luck of the draw I guess.

White cards are/should be nationally recognised regardless of state. My 1st white card was a QLD online one and a NSW job sent me to a 1 day course to get a NSW white card that I did in the flesh.

Fol20

Thanks boards community! As always your advice has been very helpful Iv already worked a few days thanks to ye. Nice One