Struggling to find a Working Holiday Visa job in Sydney? This guide shares how we secured our casual and contract roles, and has practical advice to help you do the same.
Three months into our ‘flying by the seat of our pants’ travel adventure that brought us to the other side of the world, we found ourselves in need of a bank account top-up. We’d spent most of the rest of our savings on a campervan, and it was time to put the ‘working’ part of our Aussie Working Holiday Visa into action.
We started our job hunt in Sydney in late December, which is frankly a pretty bad time to be starting as lots of businesses were closed over Christmas. After countless applications, in mid-January Ashley managed to land a contract role working in events systems admin. It took me a little longer, but I managed to land a call centre customer service role by mid-February, with a decent casual wage and the ability to work from home once I was trained!
While I was looking for advice, I found lots of TikToks on the subject, which could be helpful if you’re looking for hospitality work in particular. However, I don’t feel like they aligned with my personal experience of job seeking in Sydney on a Working Holiday Visa. Most videos feature people handing out CVs in person, and while that’s one way of doing it, neither of us actually handed out one physical CV. I also found that most of these related specifically to hospitality jobs, whereas we secured more office-based work.
Online searces for advice didn’t prove the most helpful tips either, mostly generic advice and some Reddit posts. As a result, I wanted to share our own experience of job hunting in Sydney as a 30-something British couple, and compile an ultimate resource of ways to find jobs here on a Working Holiday Visa.
This guide is specifically tailored to my experience in Sydney, however you’ll find lots of these tips relevant for any Australian city!
(P.S I’d love to be able to add to the post in future with even more unique tips – so if you’ve secured a Sydney job in a way that I haven’t covered, please do comment!)
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