For a long time, Australia has attracted a large number of overseas students from China for further study by virtue of its high teaching quality, low cost of studying abroad and good living environment. Many students will choose to work while studying in Australia, so what are the rules for working in Australia? Let's take a look at it with me.
Relevant regulations on working in Australia
1. When they first arrived in Australia, few students found suitable jobs within three months due to language and environmental problems. After all, the main purpose of students studying abroad is to study, and we don't recommend students to work too early, so as not to affect their studies. Most students began to look for part-time jobs after 3 months.
2. If you are applying for a student visa, starting from April 26th, 2118, all students' Australian visas have their own work permits (previously, they had to go to Australia to apply for a work permit at a cost of $65).
3. The visa allows working hours, and must be over 18 years old, with a student visa that allows working. Offenders cancel their school status. The school stipulates that working hours should not exceed 25 hours per week, and holidays can be relaxed. The minimum wage is 11 Australian dollars per hour. If the job you are involved in is an internship as stipulated in the school curriculum, it is not counted as less than 25 hours. (Some school courses include internships. If these internships are part of the approved courses and are registered, overseas students can also participate. ) Even if you are a volunteer, working hours are counted within 21 hours without pay.
4. When international students come to Australia to study and start working, they will be affected by Australian tax laws.
international students must report to the Australian tax office (Australian tax office; ATO) tax application number (Tax File Number).
You need to show your certificate when you apply for the tax payment number. If you apply with your passport as a certificate, you need to go in person. Application forms are available at post offices and tax offices all over the country. For more detailed information, please contact the Australian Tax Office.
5. When you start working, your employer will ask you to provide your tax payment number within 28 days.
6. Many schools in Australia should see the attendance rate, and they can be expelled if they fail to reach 81%.
Necessary preparation before starting a job
1. Make full language preparation
Make sure that your language must pass the exam. Generally speaking, the level of your language determines the quality of your work. Generally, international students get good grades after taking the IELTS test in China, but when they start looking for a job, they often feel that the language is not very good. Especially in the service industry, the requirements for English are naturally higher; Chinese business requires you to speak many dialects. For example, most restaurant workers hope that you can speak Cantonese. If you know Japanese and Shanghainese, you will have more opportunities than others.
2, need to have a good psychological quality
When you start looking for a job, you don't want to find it quickly and smoothly. In general, you have to go through a process. At this time, you must persevere and face it correctly. At the same time, you should calmly analyze and think about your own problems in the job search process in order to improve the success rate of the next job search.
When you start working, you may meet a good employer, but you are also likely to meet a grumpy and tricky employer. At work, your employer's eyes will always be fixed on you, constantly criticizing and urging you, and some employers will abuse you from time to time. In the face of such an employer, you can only reluctantly accept it and work non-stop. It is best to smile at your employer and nod your head. Being wronged is common, so be patient. Of course, if the employer really damages your personality to a certain extent, you should also have a correct response to safeguard your dignity.
3. You must have a hard-working body
International students have a lot of physical work, and there is generally no rest from the beginning to the end of each job. Therefore, for international students who have just started to work, backache and limb weakness are bound to experience.
In the summer vacation, some foreign students will go to farms in South Australia or Queensland to do some picking work. Although they earn a lot, they all work for a long time, usually about 11 hours. Therefore, you should not only have a bitter mentality, but also have a strong body.
I started looking for a job. Due to the language limitation, most students found their first job with Chinese employers. This kind of working language environment is poor and the salary is low (usually 8-11 Australian dollars/hour), which is not an ideal place for long-term work. If your English level permits, apply for jobs in pure English environment as much as possible. Such jobs will not only be better paid, but also have obvious effects on improving your language ability.
Ways to find a job
1. Go door-to-door to find a job by yourself
For international students who work no more than 25 hours a week, this is a cost-saving and efficient way to find a job. Go directly to the company and the store to ask if there is a part-time job. If this company needs to recruit people, they will write down your phone number, and soon, most of the time, the next day, you can try out.
2. Recruitment advertisements in Australian newspapers
There are many part-time jobs in newspapers, which are classified by industry. Applicants can choose corresponding positions according to their own conditions and contact their employers directly by telephone, mail or post.
3. The most convenient way is to find a job online.
The websites of several employment agencies commonly used in Australia all have special search columns for part-time jobs, and students can choose according to their own areas. Part-time jobs with great demand mainly focus on catering, cleaning and packaging.
4. Through a job intermediary
When you first come to Australia, you can also entrust a job intermediary to find a job because you are a stranger and have limited information. Usually they will charge a service fee to ensure that they find a job. Serve until you find a job.
5. Participate in social activities and be recommended by friends
In some small and medium-sized businesses in Australia, the boss opens a shop and employs several employees. When business is booming, more people are needed to help, and it is usually a common recruitment method for existing employees to recommend their friends. Therefore, make more friends at ordinary times and participate in some social activities inside and outside the school as much as you can, so as to increase your chances of finding a job.
6. Employment guidance room in the university
The university is not obliged to help students find jobs, but there will be employment guidance rooms in the university where students can look for job opportunities if they are interested. In addition, some job opportunities will be posted on the bulletin board on campus. But generally speaking, there are very few job opportunities provided by schools.
7. Combine the above methods organically
8. Participate in some professional training, local qualification certificate
Because many jobs in Australia require local qualification certificate, most of the jobs that international students can get are relatively junior manual labor. Of course, if you are willing to invest some money and energy to participate in some professional training, the situation will be greatly improved.
For example, if you spend about 1511 Australian dollars and one month's holiday time to study for a primary certificate as a nursing worker, the agency in charge of training will help you arrange a part-time job of 21 hours a week. Generally, you do some work to take care of the elderly in the elderly care center. The work is not tiring, but the hourly salary is about 21 Australian dollars, which is higher on holidays. This way is very good for students who are going to study in Australia for a long time.
Precautions for working
1. Working requires hard work. If you can't allocate your time reasonably, you should give up and don't affect your study.
2. Generally, the jobs you can find in Australia are nothing more than waiters, waiteress, cleaner and casher. So don't look down on your eyes, not only can you not find a job, but you may distort your mind.
3. Although foreigners are more human, they take things seriously and will not allow too many mistakes, so it is particularly important to be cautious.
4. Restaurants are dangerous. Wearing leather shoes and trousers can at least protect them.
5. Sign a labor contract and strengthen the awareness of self-protection. There is a difference in wages when working in a shop run by a boss in China and an Australian boss. Most restaurant owners in China don't sign labor contracts when recruiting employees, so they don't have to pay taxes when paying their salaries. Failure to sign contracts encourages "illegal workers". Illegal workers may be hidden in any store, but in view of the special "nature of work" that needs to be "hidden", the kitchen in the restaurant has become the first choice for illegal workers. It is not a wise choice to work as an illegal worker. If the Immigration Bureau finds out, it will be sent back to China, so don't go to China town to work, because 81% of them are illegal workers there.
6. When looking for a job, you can entrust an intermediary in a big city, and the agency fee is not high, but you should be cautious. It's best not to go to the local Chinese employment agency because you are eager to find a job. They usually charge you an intermediary fee of about 211 Australian dollars, but many agencies are not standardized in their services, so you should be cautious.