What about the 6 month in same employer limitation on working holiday visas? Is mining (as some other industries) exempted? Or do they have a way to circunvent it?
@@Ray-Bradbury-o5s they're not exempt from that 6-month rule unless you're working in the north of the country, like Mt Isa which is a good place to go to The other position to target is drills offsider as this allows you to move around to different sites after the 6-month period, which employers seem willing to do. It's been a bit hit and miss with employers at the moment with people on working holiday visas, as it depends on the experience that they had with the last person that they employed. Going to a mining town makes a big difference, as they need bums in seats. So if you're standing in front of them it's pretty easy for them to employ you and use you up for 6 months in the job they need done We've had a number of people do the training and have some success and we've also had a few people that have struggled so it's a bit of a mixed bag at the moment to be honest with you Hope that answers your question
Great videos mate, thanks. I’m heading to aus from the uk in a few months and my plan is to go straight to Kalgoorlie and try and get an offsider role. Some people say if you do that you can get a job easy but others say there’s no jobs about. Also would a whv stop me being trained as a driller or other roles due to me not being able to stick around for more than 3 years max.
@@dominicocallaghan6167 thanks for the feedback and questions Your plan to go to Kalgoorlie is a good one. The only thing that I would suggest is that you look at doing the DIY package (Or one of the ones that does your resume as well) so you can have a look at the underground off-siding jobs as well. There is probably more underground off-siding jobs going at the moment than surface ones. Just the way the industry is with the metal prices (Gold $4200 an ounce Australian) at the moment We've had people go to Kalgoorlie and get different results. Like you said. Some people have a good result and others struggle. I think that's got more to do with the employer looking at them and saying, "is it going to take me 3 months to get this person up to speed or can I get this person up to speed in 3 or 4 weeks" If it's going to take 3 months then obviously that's something that the employers aren't going to want to be into and again that's where the training really helps I think that's where you get the different responses from different people, how well they've prepared themselves and the type of jobs that they're going after As for getting trained up as a driller, I'm not sure how that would go being on a working holiday Visa, but if you're doing a good job then I'm sure that they will want to train you so they can take advantage and use you as a fill in driller With people that go and do the drillers offsiders jobs that come in on overseas visas one of the advantages (that the employers seem to like) is that they can be moved around easily and are happy to move after 6 months, which is the way the companies get around the 6-month rule The more study you can do and the more you can do while you're still overseas before you arrive the easier it all is. There'll still be a few days of mucking around and getting your licence sorted out and a tax file number and a Medicare number and all that sort of stuff. So allow a week of mucking around but you really need to know all the mining information before you get here if you want to hit the ground running We get a lot of people that arrive and then work out that they need to know how it all works and then they try and do the training and it just adds an extra 2 to 3 weeks to everything that could have been done before you arrived I hope that answers your question. Thanks for watching and if you've got any more questions let me know
@@AustralianMiningforNewStarters yes I did the training twice now it’s great for the knowledge of mining underground I plan to go through it again once I arrive in Perth I did the DIY package highly recommended
What about the 6 month in same employer limitation on working holiday visas? Is mining (as some other industries) exempted? Or do they have a way to circunvent it?
@@Ray-Bradbury-o5s they're not exempt from that 6-month rule unless you're working in the north of the country, like Mt Isa which is a good place to go to
The other position to target is drills offsider as this allows you to move around to different sites after the 6-month period, which employers seem willing to do.
It's been a bit hit and miss with employers at the moment with people on working holiday visas, as it depends on the experience that they had with the last person that they employed. Going to a mining town makes a big difference, as they need bums in seats. So if you're standing in front of them it's pretty easy for them to employ you and use you up for 6 months in the job they need done
We've had a number of people do the training and have some success and we've also had a few people that have struggled so it's a bit of a mixed bag at the moment to be honest with you
Hope that answers your question
@AustralianMiningforNewStarters thanks a ton
Great videos mate, thanks. I’m heading to aus from the uk in a few months and my plan is to go straight to Kalgoorlie and try and get an offsider role. Some people say if you do that you can get a job easy but others say there’s no jobs about. Also would a whv stop me being trained as a driller or other roles due to me not being able to stick around for more than 3 years max.
@@dominicocallaghan6167 thanks for the feedback and questions
Your plan to go to Kalgoorlie is a good one. The only thing that I would suggest is that you look at doing the DIY package (Or one of the ones that does your resume as well) so you can have a look at the underground off-siding jobs as well. There is probably more underground off-siding jobs going at the moment than surface ones. Just the way the industry is with the metal prices (Gold $4200 an ounce Australian) at the moment
We've had people go to Kalgoorlie and get different results. Like you said. Some people have a good result and others struggle. I think that's got more to do with the employer looking at them and saying, "is it going to take me 3 months to get this person up to speed or can I get this person up to speed in 3 or 4 weeks"
If it's going to take 3 months then obviously that's something that the employers aren't going to want to be into and again that's where the training really helps
I think that's where you get the different responses from different people, how well they've prepared themselves and the type of jobs that they're going after
As for getting trained up as a driller, I'm not sure how that would go being on a working holiday Visa, but if you're doing a good job then I'm sure that they will want to train you so they can take advantage and use you as a fill in driller
With people that go and do the drillers offsiders jobs that come in on overseas visas one of the advantages (that the employers seem to like) is that they can be moved around easily and are happy to move after 6 months, which is the way the companies get around the 6-month rule
The more study you can do and the more you can do while you're still overseas before you arrive the easier it all is.
There'll still be a few days of mucking around and getting your licence sorted out and a tax file number and a Medicare number and all that sort of stuff. So allow a week of mucking around but you really need to know all the mining information before you get here if you want to hit the ground running
We get a lot of people that arrive and then work out that they need to know how it all works and then they try and do the training and it just adds an extra 2 to 3 weeks to everything that could have been done before you arrived
I hope that answers your question. Thanks for watching and if you've got any more questions let me know
Yes we’re doing the same from uk heading to Perth on 17th then kalgoolire
@bikerlad3138 that's great but make sure you do the training so you can talk to them about how it all works. Otherwise it'll be very problematic
@@AustralianMiningforNewStarters yes I did the training twice now it’s great for the knowledge of mining underground I plan to go through it again once I arrive in Perth I did the DIY package highly recommended
@bikerlad3138 good plan 👍 The more you know about it, the easier it is for them to say yes