Jobs/Accommodation in Australia for British expats
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Jobs/Accommodation in Australia for British expats
So I'm at that age now where I want to travel to Oz but I don't fancy slumming it in a hostel and work on a farm.
I read online that you can actually work in an office and one account described how she sourced a UK recruitment agency that had offices in Oz in order to get into an office job. Does anyone know if this is true? If I cannot acquire a job beforehand, how easy is it to find an office job while there?
And how easy it is for expats to find a place to rent with other flatmates?
I read online that you can actually work in an office and one account described how she sourced a UK recruitment agency that had offices in Oz in order to get into an office job. Does anyone know if this is true? If I cannot acquire a job beforehand, how easy is it to find an office job while there?
And how easy it is for expats to find a place to rent with other flatmates?
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Re: Jobs/Accommodation in Australia for British expats
So I'm at that age now where I want to travel to Oz but I don't fancy slumming it in a hostel and work on a farm.
I read online that you can actually work in an office and one account described how she sourced a UK recruitment agency that had offices in Oz in order to get into an office job. Does anyone know if this is true? If I cannot acquire a job beforehand, how easy is it to find an office job while there?
And how easy it is for expats to find a place to rent with other flatmates?
I read online that you can actually work in an office and one account described how she sourced a UK recruitment agency that had offices in Oz in order to get into an office job. Does anyone know if this is true? If I cannot acquire a job beforehand, how easy is it to find an office job while there?
And how easy it is for expats to find a place to rent with other flatmates?
I think it would be very difficult to secure a 6 month office job from the UK unless you had in demand/specialist skills.
Look at seek.com.au for jobs.
Gumtree is good for flat shares.
There are many good hostels in Australia, not sure why you think staying in one is 'slumming it'.
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Re: Jobs/Accommodation in Australia for British expats
Plenty of agencies here in Sydney offer temp office jobs that are suitable for people on WHVs. Job ads often say that 'WHV holders are welcome to apply' so it's nonsense to think that you have to go via a UK-owned agency to get one.
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Re: Jobs/Accommodation in Australia for British expats
Given the amount of Poms that work in recruitment in Sydney, it's virtually the same thing anyway.