5 Tips For Getting A Job in Australia

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I have been a recruiter for a number of hospitality and corporate positions and there are some mistakes that I see many tourists and International visitors making time and time again. So here are my five tips and tricks to help you land a job in Australia.   Use your words wisely. What you say matters. If you say something you have to be able and willing to follow through with it. There are many cultures where it is normal to make plans with no expectations of following though on them. Aussies are different. If you say that you can Read more

Coffs Harbour…Farms Paying $12 Per Hour?

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Hi Guys we just received the following message from a member and felt obliged to share it with the community, have you encountered this? Hi I’m staying in Coffs Harbour at a very popular hostel at the minute and I just did one day at the farm and was told by everybody In my hostel that every farmer In Coffs Harbour are only paying people 12 dollars an hour and nothing more witch is very bad slave work as I just payed 160 euro to stay in the hostel and got one days work and I worked out 8 hours Read more

Manjimup: The Tomato Farm Experience

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Hi everyone, we are a group of 8 backpackers with Australian Working Holiday Visas and have been working and living in Pemberton , Western Australia. We worked for 88 days to get our 2nd year Visa: specified work in a regional area. Through the backpackers hostel in Pemberton we got a job at a tomato farm – ‘Allstates’ in Manjimup. We worked there for about 3 months and this is how we fared. Missing Payments We tried to contact the farmer – Paul Da Silva – several times. The hostel owner – Troy Della Franca – also tried to contact Read more

3 Hot Jobs Right Now

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Everyones looking for work, here’s three hot jobs listed at Fruit Picking Jobs. If you don’t like what you see simply check out the job board any time! 15 Grape Pickers Needed in Renmark South Australia Pay – Horticultural Award ( As per government legislation) Immediate start 15 Positions Counts for 2nd Year Visa Great working environment Apply Now Tomato Farm – Bowen Queensland 70 workers needed for Tomato farm in Bowen NQ Counts for 2nd Year Visa Work begins the 4th week of May Expected to stay for season ( will help with 2nd year visa days) Transport to Read more

Gun Fruit Picker Regularly Makes $2000 A Week

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So you’ve thought all the hard work was getting a fruit picking job? Well that’s just the beginning, as reported by the age, experienced fruit picker Rick Barry is no stranger to hard work. Then again he’s always off by 2pm…. so what’s he’s secret?   Long Hours   Employers said Rick is one of the hardest workers in the Sunraysia citrus industry, regualrly working about 60 hours a week in local orchards. A standard working week from Irymple, near M lasts is from Sunday to Friday, 6 days! I wonder if he gets down to the pub on a Read more

Fruit Picking Scam Corrigin

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  We were just scammed by someone pretending to be named “Jacob McCabe”. 10 days ago, wee saw an ad on Gumtree about a job at an herb farm in Corrigin, WA. It seemed interesting, the wage was correct and by the hour, so we decided to apply. A few hours later, I got a text from “Jacob”, the “farm manager”, telling me he had 13 positions available to start on March 9th, and asking me for my CV and details.   “Seemed Legit”   After several extremely detailed emails that seemed legit, we were told that we had the Read more

Manjimup: The Tomato Farm Experience

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Hi everyone, we are a group 8 backpackers with Australian Working Holiday Visas and have been working and living in Pemberton Western Australia. This was to get our 88 days specified work in a regional area for our 2nd year visa. Through the backpackers hostel in Pemberton we got a job at a tomato farm -Allstates in Manjimup-. We worked there for about 3 months and below is the story of how we fared.   Missing Payments   We tried to contact the farmer -Paul Da Silva- several times. Also the hostel owner -Troy Della Franca- tried to contact him Read more

Strawberry Season commences at the Beerenberg Farm

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The Beerenberg Farm is getting ready for their upcoming harvest, with strawberries, cherries, gherkins, plums, roses (their petals go in their petal jelly) and hot chillies. Beerenberg Strawberry Farm grow so much that they have over 50 people working just to look after the harvest! The Farm is also a Tourist Attraction which has attracted pickers from all over the world since 1975. To give you an insight into how big the harvest is, last year over 28,000 people picked 5 tonnes of strawberries! That’s alot of picking! If you’re in the area this Sunday, October 27th,  the farm will Read more

Territory lemon grower squeezes ahead of the pack

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Northern Territory lemons will be arriving in southern markets early this year, just as prices soar due to a supply shortage. First round picking just finished at the Sevenfields orchard, south of Katherine, almost two months earlier than in previous years. Sevenfields manager, Andy Hancock, says the company had been working towards an October harvest, to take advantage of high early-season prices. “It is unusual for us, because at this time we are usually about to start picking mangoes,” he said. “Generally we pick late December, or January, but we have just picked about 15 tonnes in the last week. Read more

Cadell

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Cadell is a small town in the centre of a citrus growing area, located on the mighty Murray River. The town is on the edge of a large agricultural region known as the Riverland. Named after Captain Cadell, it shares its name with Australia’s recent Tour de France champion, Cadel Evans. Remember to check out the Murray River Giant Pumpkin Competition, held annually at the Cadell Easter Harvest Festival.   Fruit Picking Work in Cadell January to April – Grape picking May to February – Citrus June to August – Vine pruning October to March – Stonefruit Fruit Picking Jobs Read more