Hello everyone! I'm Watson, I'm Luana. Today, we want to talk to you about our two-year experience in "Australia Working Holiday" . That's right, because we often receive fans on IG asking us about... or... He currently has a stable job and he doesn't know if he should quit his job and go to Australia for a working holiday, so today we want to share and then we will share and then there... Why first of all our purpose of going to Australia is "different" from that of many people. At that time, before the epidemic, we both had stable jobs in Hangzhou. My income and Asi's income were both in There are also opportunities for promotion at the same time. In fact, suddenly leaving the workplace at this point is a very important thing because generally at our age, we are about to enter the next stage of the workplace, and if you leave now and then come back in a year or two, then During this period of time in Australia, it may be considered as a gap in your resume. There will be a gap! So many people will hesitate whether I should give up this stable job or a promotion opportunity now. What about Australia? Yes,
our industry is actually changing very fast, so if you come back from 1-2 years, you may have to relearn a lot of things or even start from scratch at a lower position, so your colleagues may be all over the place. University graduates, and then someone of your age may have been promoted to a supervisory position or have a better salary and position than you, so it is indeed a more difficult decision whether to leave your job and go to Australia for a gap year. If it is the same as before, then every day Our life has to stay in a relatively narrow range. What troubles us every day is the pressure exerted on us by the external environment . In this case, there are actually very few opportunities to pursue it. If your living environment has always been relatively "stable", then I don't think about these "special problems". Actually, it's like why we talked about going to Australia for a working holiday because we happened to be traveling in Chiang Mai, so we talked about working holiday and found that our two ideas actually hit it off. It's that we all think we want to seize the feeling of applying for this Australian working holiday visa before the age limit, that is, before the age of 31 , and then to really experience what it is like to live abroad for a long time. Although it is important to listen to everyone's suggestions Of course, your current work is also very important, but the most important basis for judgment is to think about what is most important in your heart for the future? Then make a choice according to the priority of your values, or conversely think if you don't Will you regret doing this in the future? Although it sounds like the process of our decision was easy and simple, there are still some details to pay attention to after we really start preparing, especially because I hold a mainland passport and then a mainland passport every year The number of places is limited There are 5000 places, which are distributed in three times, so every time many people have to grab the qualification to hand over the visa before they can start preparing for the next part. For example, we need the English score certificate of the IELTS or PTE test, as well as college education and transcripts. In addition, there must be a basic financial proof of at least an equivalent deposit of 5,000 Australian dollars. Usually, it is more secure to save more. For example, it requires more than 30,000 yuan or 140,000 Taiwan dollars. If the above materials are Taiwan passports, as long as the financial resources are proved, yes It needs to be prepared, so at that time, the two of us just needed to prepare a deposit certificate of about 300,000 Taiwan dollars. There are two opinions on the Internet. One is that your money should be kept in the account for at least one month, which is more secure. The other is It is that your money only needs to go through the process. Just print out your deposit certificate and you can take it out at any time. But we chose the former or put the deposit in that account for a longer period of time, which is safer and more After arriving in Australia , it can actually be used as an "emergency reserve" for you. Apart from these, visa fees and medical examination fees are payable by all applicants regardless of the region. Well, I remember that the visa fees for mainland China and Taiwan seem to be the same. It was more than 400 Australian dollars at that time, but it seems that there has been a price increase recently, so the medical examination fee is probably between 400-500 Australian dollars . In the mainland, it is about 800-1,400 yuan. According to where you are, you should call and ask directly for Taiwan. It is about NT$2,500-2,800. There are currently two designated hospitals in Taipei, one in Taichung and one in Kaohsiung, so the overall application process and cost are the same. Overall, the process and cost of Taiwan passport application are relatively convenient and cheap, and there is no need to test. In English, you don't have to look at the university transcript, then you pay online, then go to the medical examination and sign it immediately. In my case, I submitted the application in February 2019 and then got the visa in April. In fact, it is not long before we will talk about it. How did we find our first job in Australia? We contacted a friend who was working and vacationing in Australia when we were in Taiwan before departure, and through him, we applied for our first job with a human resources agency in Australia . We had jobs, so we had jobs as soon as we landed, and when we were in Taiwan, we printed out some of our "inauguration letter" and then showed it to the customs when we entered the country, just to prove to him that we had savings and then When we land, we will have a job. In fact, it will be smoother to enter the country. After arriving in Australia, we have actually worked two jobs seamlessly with the manpower agency. With these two jobs, we have accumulated 88 working days to apply for the second visa. (Slip of the tongue) After applying for the second visa, we decided to start our original plan and wanted to have a deeper understanding of the local culture and life in Australia. We chose the way of working and living in the local people’s home in Australia while traveling along the way, so it is actually the second year of this experience of working and living, and in the process, Watson and I often sincerely think about the risk. We had Otherwise, it wouldn't have been such a special experience. Then we also met a lot of Australian families who were really good to us, and we still keep in touch now, so we really hope that we can go back this Christmas. See if they are right, we can open a few special issues for this part to give you an in-depth talk. Speaking of work, we have actually been relatively smooth in the two years of work experience and have met a lot of good people. I think this is in addition to In addition to being lucky, it is because we have done some things right, so we have summarized 3 suggestions and can give you the first suggestion. Although English is very important, don't think English ability is "too important" because in fact, it is based on Our experience and our experience in Australia for the past two years. In fact, if you walk- in directly to the store to hand in your resume and then introduce yourself to the manager or store manager, the success rate will be much higher than if you submit your resume on the Internet. That's right, but many people don't dare to do this because they think his English ability is not very good, so they don't dare to take this step. But in fact, they really don't care that much. They are more concerned about how you feel to others. How does it feel to be outgoing talking to others? You have to dare to speak. Well
, the requirement for English ability is actually that as long as you can communicate on a daily basis, it is OK. So don’t be afraid of your poor English. You must sell yourself confidently. We have an IG account for learning English and Australian slang. After we arrived in Australia, we found that the English world of Australians is completely different from the English we learned in Taiwan. It is very different from American and British. They have a lot of their own. Slang is a bit like ours... how to say it is a stalk that only Taiwanese know or some usage that only Taiwanese know, so you can follow our IG There are many Australian slang words you can learn in advance before going to Australia When you arrive in Australia, they will definitely think that you are super local . The second suggestion is to exercise your screening ability and find reliable sources of information. Because there are so many "recruiting" and "recruiting" information on the Internet, you must learn how to distinguish the authenticity from the fake. If you feel that you don't know anyone in Australia and you don't know where to start, you can first find a white-job job through a local regular human resources company in Australia , and then slowly expand your circle of friends to ask Ask your colleagues around you and ask them to introduce you to your next job. You can also use the FB community, WeChat public account, and WeChat group because I feel that compared to the line, WeChat has the "information volume" on it. " and The "activity level" is much better than that of the line, so you can actually use it or ask a friend who has experience around you. It is best if he has worked himself, and then you can apply for it after you understand it. You can ask us if you do n't. If so, it may be similar to those young people who went to work in Cambodia. You just don't know what the job is like. If you pass it, you may not be cut off, but you may be squeezed for working hours or The salary is very low or many people will be deceived to a very remote place to say that there is a job there. After you go there, you will wait endlessly for the day when the job starts, and then you will be burning rent. He is lying to you. Then earn your rent money. This is actually quite common in Australia. These situations are possible . The third suggestion is to understand the general work content in Australia in advance and then delineate your own development direction because it is not just a working holiday visa. If you just want to experience life, you can apply for a working holiday, but if you really want to experience "study abroad" or "study travel", you can also apply for a student visa for "part-time work-study" or you have If you want to try to immigrate to Australia a little bit, in fact, if you decide on this direction at the beginning and prepare for it, it will save you a lot of time. We have seen many people who regretted it later because they did not plan ahead. For
wasting a lot of time , it doesn't matter if you didn't think so clearly at first There is a certain direction. For example, you go to Australia to practice your English in this environment. When you are looking for a job, you should look for those local companies with rich nationalities or those who have many communication opportunities. Some job options in the service industry are relatively elementary, such as: maybe some auxiliary positions in factories or farms, such as for example, both of us have been supervisors and assistants to supervisors. Usually, for this role, he needs to communicate directly in English. The local supervisor in Australia reports and communicates, and then positions like the quality control position or the waiter in the service industry require a lot of use of English in that workplace, but it does not require too much English. A high level does not require you to have some professional vocabulary or professional knowledge, as long as you have the ability to communicate on a daily basis, that is OK It's just that this will be a bit more complicated, but in fact, Watson has also interviewed for this kind of office job in Australia, and
then he also worked in an immigration company in Cairns, so after this we can share if If you want to do this kind of special white-collar office experience, how should you prepare? I can tell everyone that if you just want to make money, then
you want your work content to be simple and easy to work with a lot of hours. In fact, you can consider that in some remote parts of Australia, such as Northridge, Central or Western Australia, there are many Roadhouses or in some small towns around big cities, they will be more difficult to recruit and then
it is The living environment may not be as convenient as in big cities, so relatively its salary will be higher, and the working hours will be longer, and you basically don’t have much place to spend in that place, so people who can usually save a lot of money back You all have at least a period of work experience where you have money and nowhere to spend, as long as you can stand loneliness, yes, so the jobs we listed above are relatively common, but in fact, there are many development directions . In the end, it is you It is best to have a general development direction and delineate a range before looking for a job. This will be more beneficial to your long-term development. Then again, one thing that almost everyone who comes to Australia will feel is that our time in Australia suddenly changes. You have a lot of time for yourself after work, so how can we use the extra time effectively? We have shared a content in IG about two different income curves of working holiday in Australia. If you are in Australia When you are just earning money, you don’t make good use of this time to improve your ability or plan your growth path. When the visa ends and you want to go back, you will find that you will still return to the starting point, even because of the empty space in the past two years. Your income is not as good as before. If your goal is very clear and you just want to find a way to stay in Australia, you can follow the application process as soon as possible to do some necessary planning, such as taking some professional licenses or It is to study some related courses. If you know that you will definitely return to work in a year or two because of your family or other reasons, you can plan a study plan in advance for your own major or field. We have some in Australia. In fact, you can wear headphones to listen to things when you are working in a farm or factory, so you can prepare the e-books or courses you want to study in advance, and you can use the time to listen to them when you are at work. You can even create a self-media to share it. The content you have learned is because we have discussed before we went that we will definitely return to China, so we also used our work time in Australia to listen to a lot of books, hundreds of books and courses, and then every day We entered a lot, so we wanted to set up a self-media account to share what we learned every day, and then we have the account of "slash couple". After that, we will also make another video to share with you "if How to start from 0 to be a self-media.” To summarize today, I shared our original intention to go to Australia, the different requirements for applying for a working holiday visa in the mainland and Taiwan, and some suggestions for the new package to find a job and how to use the time. Hope for you A little help. Although for most people going to Australia for a working holiday is just a small journey in life, it is actually a very valuable asset for us. If you also want to go to Australia to experience "Australian life" and see Welcome to leave a message here and tell us what is your purpose of going to Australia ? Whether you want to learn English, experience life, make money, or work hard to get rid of the single. You are also welcome to follow our IG. If you have any questions, you can send us a private message Finally, don't forget to subscribe to our channel so that you won't miss our experience sharing about Australia in the future. See you next week.
