Australian Backpackers Job Placement Assistance

WORKING HOLIDAY MAKERS

We offer job assistance whilst you are in Australia. The job offers could be for a short term temporary contract, long term (6months), harvesting/farm work or even on a day to day basis, casual work.

The following are the methods we use to provide the job offers:

• 3 months membership at Travellers at work, on-line job agency. Customers can activate that anytime, for example, if they would like to travel for a month or 2 before they look for work, they can contact us to activate this membership after their travels so that they can fully benefit their membership. Once the customer fills out all of their relevant information on-line they will start to receive job offers in their particular area of Australia.
• We have a job placement officer who works in the office and arranges job offers upon request for our customers. We have a list of employers from around Australia and we advise customers to call us when they need assistance finding work and we provide job offers for their current location. For example, most will want to relax and enjoy their first weeks in Australia and not want to start looking for work when they arrive. They then call us when they are ready to start and we activate their Travellers at Work membership and use our contacts to find job placements.

Each of our hostels has a job club where Australian backpackers get the first job offers that come in and numerous jobs are displayed. Employers ring our Hostel each day looking for work.

• We have strong relationships with fruit picking farms and outback country work and can offer these jobs upon request in various places around Australia.

Most backpacker jobs pay between $15 and $20 per hour. After tax full-time wages range from $400 to $700 per week.

Eligible temporary residents are now available to access their superannuation savings upon departure from Australia. You must pay 29% tax as a non-resident but can sometimes get 50% - 75% tax back when you leave the country.

We provide in our starter pack information about getting tax back and we have contacts of companies who can help the guest claiming their taxes back if they are eligible.

If you have a working holiday visa you can work up to 6 months with the same employer.

If you have worked as a seasonal worker in an eligible regional Australian area for a minimum of 3 months you can apply for a second working holiday visa.

Seasonal work means the following: harvesting and /or packing of fruit and vegetable crops, wwoofing( willing working on organic farms), plant and animal cultivation, fishing and pearling, tree farming and felling.

You have to fulfill a few requirements if you want to apply for your second visa and you will be obliged to go for a medical examination. You are able to leave and come back to Australia during your 2nd Visa.