How does the study abroad party find a job in Australia?

First, update your resume! Then, attack decisively! There are many job resources and types for international students to find jobs after graduation.

Besides, if you already live in Australia, the best channel is to use your local network. Let people know that you have plans to live and work in Australia and see if they can point you in a good direction.

If you want to find a part-time job, you can look for opportunities from youth hostels or local websites. Don't be afraid to walk into your favorite bar or restaurant, bring your resume and ask about all job opportunities with a smile.

Those international students who have already lived in Australia should be well aware of the cost of living there. If you want to step into the "real world" now, you must hope that your first "adult job" is more in line with your living standards.

In short, many international students are doing well in Australia. If possible, everyone should get ready before graduation.

What job am I looking for?

After I came back from Melb, around the beginning of February, I began to look for a full-time job that could bring stable income. I don't have PR, and my grades are average. I have only half a year's website development experience in a China company, but I never feel that I can't find a job, because I firmly believe that my skills, learning ability and thinking ability are greater than everything in this industry. There are too many directions in the IT industry, so my idea is that before you start looking, you should choose your own direction and future career, and focus on the point and depth (similar to doing one thing). It is because there are many directions in the industry that specialization and learning ability are what employers really consider for a junior employee.

Resume preparation

After the direction and specific position were determined, I began to revise my resume around the general requirements of this position. Resume should not be too long, just one page. Don't put anything you don't need, such as hobbies, interests and personality. It's a better way to start with skills, but it's enough to pass the education, because only very large companies, such as banks or Big Four, will use scores as the standard for the first round of screening. On the one hand, I can't score, on the other hand, I have always had a physical aversion to big companies, so I won't consider this issue at all. Next, you should list what you have done. If you have a portfolio, you should put links and a simple description. If you have work experience, you should put it. If not, put the school project experience. If not, do it first and then come back. (It should be noted that only the experience related to the position you requested, such as the position of php, is basically not listed. When listing experiences, try not to have paragraphs, but focus on the phrase bulletin. People who read resumes don't have time to read novels, so the maximum amount of information that can be provided to resume readers in the shortest time is the most worth considering (this is a bit like SEO). In addition, honesty and truthfulness are my own insistence. I only write about what I have really done, and only write about the skills I really know and have experience in. Don't write what I can't understand. Make sure that the skills you write are what you can actually do. The list of skills should also be arranged from the strongest to the weakest, so should the project experience, just as customers don't look at the website two pages later when they search things with Google. In addition, I didn't emphasize my character strengths and team personality at all in my resume, because these can be described by a cover letter, and I don't need to occupy precious resume space here. Besides, people don't believe this kind of thing if you write it yourself. When there is an interview, someone will naturally come to experience it. About resumes, that's all.

Enclosed letter

The next thing I started to do was to apply for a letter. Modifying the cover letter for different positions was one of the most painful things I experienced when I was looking for a job the year before last. So this time, after deciding to apply only for the same or similar positions, the cover letter becomes much easier. Writing a versatile cover letter is a very hard but beneficial thing, which is a typical one-time investment and multiple returns. The cover letter is about four or five paragraphs. You can search for words and sentences yourself. You'd better avoid writing too many sentences yourself. After all, most of us are not good at writing. Because it is a more formal letter, it is better to use a safer written expression. The first paragraph is about where I saw the position and what kind of situation I am, so I am willing to apply. In the second paragraph, we should list the skills we can meet according to each item in the job description. Just be confident and bold. In the third paragraph, you can talk about your character strengths, personality charm, team and so on, which is necessary. Finally, I would like to sum up what I think I can do for this position and what benefits I can bring to the company or team. I hope to have an interview opportunity, and attach my contact information, telephone number and email address. Of all the opportunities I voted for, 99% only changed the date and title, which is of course related to the broad name of web developer I voted for. I think we must pay attention to the importance of the cover letter. After all, most people read the cover letter of the email body first, and then click the attachment to read the resume. Compared with the importance of resume, it can be said to be more important. It can be said that it is a stepping stone. If this piece is lost, there will be no chance to knock.

After fixing the above two sharp weapons, you need to pay attention to some details. Don't use your usual contact email address, but register a special job search email address, from which you can directly see people's names. My personal suggestion is, of course, gmail, which is fast, has a large capacity and has no advertisements. It has many functions and is better integrated with Google products. The access mode of IMAP is perfect on iphone. After registering this special email address for job hunting, forward it directly to your usual email address in the settings (gmail is of course the best), thus avoiding the trouble of checking several emails every day. Create keyword filters in your frequently used mailboxes. When there are job-related keywords, they are marked with special job labels to divide folders. The advantage of using gmail completely is that you can directly choose your own email address as the special email address for job hunting when replying to emails, which is convenient and professional. Speaking of which, there is one little thing that makes me love gmail, by going up one flight of stairs. In our cover letter, there is usually something like this: I have attached my resume below. Once, after pasting the cover letter into the body of the email, I forgot to upload the attachment and directly clicked Send. At this moment, something surprising happened. A pop-up dialog box shows, "You have the word attach in the text, but the attachment is empty. Are you sure you want to send an email without any attachments? " I was shocked and impressed at that time. Such a small place is designed in terms of user experience, which makes people not love Google.

seek an opportunity

In fact, I think that after doing the above things well, finding a job is followed by a mechanical repetitive physical labor. How to do a good job in formal handcraft actually has a certain technical content. Seek is the largest job search website in Australia, and other websites include mycareer, but I only pay attention to seek, because Seek accounts for about 80% of the recruitment information in Australia, which is enough for anyone to vote. After registering seek, first improve the profile according to your own situation. Next, and most importantly, mail subscription. Seek provides a way to send new recruitment information updated every day to users' mailboxes according to keywords and other special needs. After setting special keywords, grades and salary requirements according to each position you want, the corresponding information added every day will be sent to your mailbox in the form of a list around 3 pm. So in the future, I will check my email every day and then choose what I think is appropriate to vote.

It is very important that there are many recruitment information sent by headhunting agents. I don't vote for this kind of thing, because most of them sink into the sea, don't directly contact people in the company for interviews, and don't understand the company. It's best not to do such a waste of time and thankless thing. Another thing worth doing is to record the companies and positions you have invested in. Because the general process is that the other party will be shortlisted first, then call and email you to make an appointment for the next interview or test. Often at this time, when you have invested dozens or hundreds of copies, it is impossible for someone to call you to tell you the company name, because you need to save a doc, which contains the company position, location, company information, the corresponding job description page on seek, company page and so on. On the one hand, you can know which positions you have voted for, and you can avoid multiple delivery failures. On the other hand, you can count the number of positions you voted for. If you don't reply for a long time or not, you should adjust your resume and cover letter in time. I use google docs for this, which is very convenient, because the cloud can be accessed anywhere, just like the mailbox. In addition, I also divided the documents of different regions, namely Sydney, Melbourne and so on. According to my statistics, Sydney has the most opportunities, accounting for about two-thirds of Australia. Of course, the population and competition are also the most. Melbu's words, the number is about one-third to one-half of Sydney's, and other regions together, there are as many opportunities as Melbu. In my case, Sydney received the most responses, followed by Queensland and other regions, and melb did not respond positively. The only time I contacted by email was when I was rejected 20 days later. Probably because I am so short of people in Sydney and Queensland. From the perspective of technology distribution, no matter the front end or the back end, websites or web applications are the most developed. Then the back-end technology php is the most. Net is similar to j2ee, python, RoR and even perl, but it is rare. In addition to doing the web, there are many databases, whether for analysis, development, mining or management, which are optional directions (although personally feel boring). Then mobile development such as iOS can see that there is an increasingly hot trend, which is worth chasing. The underlying system development or network is probably the least (but it seems that money is the most because it is scarce). In terms of salary, Sydney is one of the best in Australia, and it is true in terms of salary. 45k+super is the industry benchmark (for beginners/beginners, of course). Other places can also get around 40k, but compared with the house price, this 40k is much more valuable than that in Sydney.

wait for

In fact, for me, if I get an interview, the chance of getting an offer is probably more than half. The most anxious thing is actually the stage of waiting for an answer. Within two weeks after I officially started to submit my resume, there were only a few emails and phone calls, and there were no serious interview opportunities, but in the next two weeks, interviews began to break out (last Wednesday, this Thursday and next Thursday). I think this has a lot to do with Australians being lazy in life and work, so you don't have to worry at all, and you don't have to be too anxious (I also received a phone call for an interview 20 days ago). As long as there is a phone call and email reply, it shows that your cover letter and resume are useful and eye-catching, but if there is basically no phone call and email reply within two or three weeks, you should make adjustments in time. As for the interview, I really can't give any practical and useful advice. Let's take a look at the common interview questions. Don't panic suddenly then. Technical problems are slowly preparing to accumulate. I feel that I can see the past from what I wear (like me, who never likes to wear formal clothes, I still buy a semi-formal and semi-casual shirt to make the interview sacred). Don't be too saturated and hungry before the interview, otherwise it will affect the operation of the brain. It is ok to drink some coffee energy drinks before you start (but note that both are diuretics, and don't drink too much water for a long interview. Don't be supercilious in the interview, laugh when you should, and don't laugh when you shouldn't. It is best to control the atmosphere in the interview process by yourself to avoid being too nervous or too excited. The most important thing is honesty, because you have no memory of lies. If you ask them repeatedly, you might as well say nothing. As for English, don't speak too fast. If you want to say it, you don't have to prepare any business English. Avoid swearing if you can, but it's no big deal to blurt it out when you get excited. After all, Australians are unconventional and conservative in this respect, so you don't have to pay special attention to it. The feeling of my interview is that in fact, in our industry, the skills are not much different. After all, learning ability is more important, so the role of personal charm is much greater than expected. Most geeks like people who are open, interesting and have their own lives. It is said that the company has a harmonious team atmosphere, which is what they value. Of course, these are all based on the fact that skills can meet the minimum basic requirements. The benefits of working abroad can be reflected here. After all, any value is created by people, and talents are everything in the work. It will be more efficient and effective to treat people as talents.

If the interview goes well, the next step is to accept or not to accept the job. When you have too many interviews and choose too many companies, accepting or not accepting the offer is a tangled proposition. Whether to choose what you love or choose what you love is an endless question (in all fields). Because I always only care about what I like, it is natural for me to turn down one or two job opportunities and wait for the company I like. But this does not apply to everyone. After all, personal pursuits are different. In addition, if opportunities and offer are very rare for you, it is not undesirable to seize fleeting opportunities. After all, you will have more energy to pursue the people and things you love with food and clothing.

As for finding a job, I don't have much experience in our place and this industry, which is probably the above. I hope I can help some friends who are struggling in kangaroo country.