The green card for studying in Australia has become an essential foundation for employment.

A university in Australia held a small and medium-sized campus job fair for graduates, with more than 40 exhibitors, including Fortune 500 companies, government departments, school employment training institutions and various professional intermediary companies. At the job fair, there was no phenomenon similar to that of domestic job-seeking graduates, but it also attracted many students and graduates to consult.

According to the report (), Bob Birrell, a demographer at Monash University, said that the employment opportunities of young Australians will face competition from 200,000 international students who have obtained temporary residence visas and 6,543,800+0.06 million international students waiting for permanent residence. Professor's statement is somewhat alarmist, because in reality, no matter for temporary visa holders or green card (official name is permanent residency, commonly known as PR) waiters, metropolises are rejected by Australian enterprises. Whether elite or mediocre, there is no doubt that a green card has become a necessary basis for finding an ideal job in Australia.

I haven't sent any resumes.

In front of various booths, you can see well-made brochures with different styles. As far as exhibitors are concerned, most of them do not receive resumes on the spot. Some exhibitors ask students to leave their contact information, and then send recruitment information by email. In order to improve efficiency, exhibitors simply let students input information into the database and send emails on a unified date. It is not so much a job fair as a trade fair, where you can get information from all walks of life, and from time to time there are small gifts and sweets distributed by exhibitors.

An international student from China said, "Today, I mainly come to learn about the situation and see what new companies there are. Then go to their website and have a look. "

Another graduate student in the language department who is about to graduate said, "I came early with my resume, but I didn't send a letter." After asking around, I found that there is no corresponding job, most of them are business, and some of them are part-time childcare. I don't want to do this. "

The most active people on the scene are international students, who are volunteers. They are busy wearing work clothes, pouring water, delivering snacks and handing out leaflets. "Welcome to our job fair." A Korean student is busy distributing leaflets, while enthusiastically helping to promote it in English that is not fluent. It seems that volunteer work experience may be more practical than visiting job fairs.

To apply for a good job, you must first go through PR.

At the job fair, the booths of some government agencies and well-known enterprises are the most popular, and the booth staff, especially the human resources director, are surrounded by students. The first recruitment requirement provided by the Australian government departments present is: permanent residents or Australian citizens, which obviously excludes all international students without green cards. Only some well-known enterprises recruit international students, and the requirements are extremely high. There are only a handful of positions in famous enterprises that open their doors to international students.

The person in charge of the booth of a well-known accounting company at the scene said that if they are Australian local students, they can not only apply for accounting and auditing positions, but also apply for other positions; If you are an international student, you must have PR (permanent residence status) to apply for accounting and auditing related jobs. "If it is an international student who meets the application conditions, we only provide accounting positions. The IELTS score was very high when applying. In addition, it would be better if you have Australian work experience. " An accountant in this company believes that besides excellent professional skills, "dealing with people" is equally important, because it is often necessary to communicate with customers by mail and telephone. From this point of view, IELTS score is very important as an authoritative standard to measure the excellent English ability. For international students, whether they can successfully pass the language barrier has become the key to stand out in the application and interview. However, everything should be based on whether there is PR or not.

A female student from China who graduated from the accounting department of the school said, "Today, two other students and I came to the school specially to attend the job fair. At present, I am still taking IELTS, and I have to take four 7 points before June this year to apply for PR. Otherwise, after July 1, there will be four 8 points! "

Five exhibitors were interviewed randomly about the possibility of providing employer's guarantee, and none of them expressed their willingness to provide employer's guarantee for international students in order to apply for permanent residence status.

Internship program, spend money to buy experience

At the job fair, more than five exhibitors provided self-funded internship programs, most of which were provided by intermediary companies or employment agencies. On the one hand, they get information about job opportunities from the company, on the other hand, they collect information about job seekers, which serves as a bridge between the two sides. The professional intermediary market is gradually expanding to the campus. The first one is the short-term internship program for students or graduates.

An industry insider who specializes in internship programs in China, Beijing and Shanghai said that students who want to apply for internship programs must first pay a deposit of 500 Australian dollars, and then they can arrange three interview opportunities according to their application intentions. If one of the three internships is hired, the internship fee will be paid; If you can't pass the three chances, you will be refunded 350 Australian dollars. It is understood that the cost of the internship program varies according to the time and job type.

Another person in the industry who specializes in local internship programs in Australia said that the deposit fee of their company is also 500 Australian dollars, and the deposit is non-refundable. Before paying the deposit, there will be a project briefing and pre-admission based on resume screening to ensure that the internship intention and expected service are clearly negotiated with the students. People in the industry attract students with the selling point of "internship in a big company and gaining priceless experience". Both of them did not disclose the name of the company available for internship on the grounds of trade secrets. However, both of them said that the interview pass rate of this institution was very high, reaching 100% and 98% respectively.

Although overseas internship can provide rare work and life experience, it is a compromise choice for international students who cannot stay and work in Australia. However, industry insiders remind that international students should carefully consider the cost performance when applying for overseas internship programs, because most of these internship programs do not provide remuneration or have low remuneration. In addition to the project fee, applicants have to pay their own air tickets and accommodation fees, ranging from 4,000 to 5,000 Australian dollars to tens of thousands. The work experience bought at such a high price is not available to ordinary students.