Indian Community in Australia

Indian Students

How to find jobs in Australia

Different ways to find jobs in Australia on Student Visa 

If you are in Australia on student visa or planning to come to Australia on student visa, then this information would help you to find jobs in Australia. Before I would advise on how to find a job in Australia, I would like you to be careful with scammers. There are many scammers online who pretends to help you to get job in exchange of money. Some scammers advertisement on Facebook. Below is the example. 

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So do not give any money or any of your details to this type of scammers. Below are several ways you can find a job in Australia. 

Customer Service Jobs: 

It is easy to get jobs in supermarket and in food industry in Australia. Students love this type of jobs due to flexible hours and weekend work so they can study as well as work. 

How to find jobs in supermarket: 

Coles, Woolworths, ALDI, Bunnings warehouse, Big W, Target, Dominos, Hungry Jacks, KFC, Mc Donalds. Go to their career page and look for vacancies. Example: Google Career in Coles and it will show you career page. Upload your resume there.  

If your friend works, there you can simply ask him if he can refer you to their store manager. Usually store manager has power to recruit.  

Recruitment Agencies: 

The best way to find job in Australia is to register with recruitment agency. There are many agencies for community and labour work. Below is list of recruitment agencies. Search jobs on their website and submit resume. Once submitted wait for 2 days and if you don’t hear back from them simply call the agency. Most of the agencies will be happy to register you in their database so if they get any casual job, they can contact you.  

Trade connex 

Labour Revolution 

Pulse Recruitment 

Labour power 

Labour Solutions 

Omni Recruit 

You can find more agencies name from here.  

Seek.com.au website is leading job search website in Australia. You can create your resume on seek.com.au and make your profile visible to recruitment agencies so they can contact you.  

Knock the door: 

This is the other method you can use to find work. For example, you want to work in the café or restaurant, you can go to nearby café or restaurant where you live and handout your resume and ask them if they have any vacancy?  

If you are on dependent visa or have full time work permit you can do some short-term course which will get you job. You can find more information about that here.  

Delivery Jobs: 

If you have car or bike and want flexible hours, you can join Uber Eats or drive a car and earn money via Uber drive or DiDi 

Before you look for a job you must have some documents with you. You can find out what documents you must have before you start a job in Australia. 

Did you know you can earn money in your spare time by filling survey?   

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