Hmmmmm not sure if I am even allowed to post this but someone can remove it for me if it shouldnt be here.

I just figured that there are a lot of people looking for work and we are having a lot of trouble finding workers in Australia, so if anyone is interested, Australia is looking for workers in the mining industry with or without experience, we just don't have the people here to do the work that is happening.

Anyway the average wage is around $100 000 a year, so if you are single and need work I guess it couldnt hurt to apply I have put the link to the people who can help. I have absolutely no information on it, its just that we have heaps of American here who are being brought over as well as people from NZ..
Sorry if this shouldnt be here.

http://www.australia-mining.com/?g2

Hi Josie.... I read your job posting for Australia...Is it mandatory that the person be single to apply?
please let me know.

awesome information Josie!! thank you

TY for the information. How did you find out about this website? Sites like that scare me a little. I will look around for some official Australian websites that would help. If I find anything, I'll post it here so others can get the information as well.

this site may help

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110324102708AA1woKd



I have also made it my aim to research other countries seeking to hire folks at living wages. This is an avenue I handt considered before that just might work,,,,


thanx Josie

Thats a good idea, I know that up here where I live we have just recieved a contract for I think around 34 billlion dollars, we don't have the people to cover the jobs, then we have huge mining contracts as well, we are in the Northern Territory, then Western Australia and Queensland also have a lot of mining at the moment, so check out those areas.

A huge majority of the workers coming up here are from overseas, so it's definately worth looking into and I know that the average wage would be close to what they have stated as we have a lot of miners on their weeks off stay with us.

http://jobs.riotinto.com.au/browse

This might be a better site

You know, I saw a link advertising this and I just wasn't sure how legit it was. Thank you for posting about it. May have to check into it.

My daughter and her husband live in Perth, Western Australia, and I spent 6 weeks with them this Easter. You are right, there are a lot of jobs in the mining industry,very well paid too, but most are FIFO, (fly in and fly out), in WA. Most of the mines are located in the outback, and workers rotate on so many weeks working at the mine,then so many weeks off returning to the cities. It goes without saying that it is a very hot climate, in the mining areas in particular.

I like West Australia, the weather is wonderful but I do not mind the heat, and the people are so friendly, but it is an expensive place to live caused in part through the mining boom, when compared to the cost of living here in the UK. The salaries are higher in the mining industry, so the cost of living would not be a major issue for anyone gaining employment in mining in WA.

Brilliant idea Josie!

It's very true people...they are literally screaming out for people to work in the top end (Northern Territory). But if living in the outback isn't your thing, there is also plenty of work around in the major cities of Oz.

www.mycareer.com.au

That is one of many websites to look at, just google jobs in Australia.

All you need is a genuine desire to work and succeed.

It's a nice post Josie.

But I work helping to build mining equipment for P&H, Bucyrus/Cat,
and others. Mining is not just pick and shovel work. I believe most mines are looking for skilled operators, technicians, mechanics, and engineers. They are not going to just hand the keys to a multi million dollar machine to some slubb and say, "ere ya go lad. Ave a good time, and see ya at the pub after your shift".
Besides that, mining can be a hot, dirty, and sometimes dangerous
way to make a buck. It's not for everyone.

Ahh I hope to get an oversea job as well, thanks for your information~

This thread makes me think of other "hot" job locations where people flock hoping to make a fat wad of money.

What usually works out is if it sounds too good to be true it isn't.

I remember as a kid in the midwest when the oil boom hit. The crews that came in with skills and supplies did well for a while. They were kept in compounds in isolated areas and people talked about how much money they made but there was little or no envolvement.

Then more people came and wages fell and the supplies ran out. Houseing , food, and protection only existed for those who could pay through the nose to get it or lived by the law of the gun. Crime rates soured (Especially against women and small businesses.) Rental property was destroyed, entire neighborhoods became slums, and the ecological damage was appauling. Tax payers did not want to pay to regulate the corporations that had plently of lawyers to fight their efforts.

Locals grew to hate the incoming workers. And often looked the other way when workers were screwed out of their pay, gouged for the smallest comforts, and if they caught them alone would burn their vehicals with or without the occupants to the ground. Those that took pity on them or befriended them were hated with equal vengence. Injured workers would have to be transported long distances for even emergency care. If they got crosswise of the local law enforcement if they survived to see a judge you could bet there was no bail and much harsher punishments.

I can't speak to the climate in Austrailia but in the midwest it was in many of these compounds, hot dessert dry, or flash flooding, and then in the winter the brutal wind could freeze you to death in a manner of minutes in snow drifts along the roads deeper than full size tractor trailers. A bed or a bath was a luxury that could end up costing a days wages or more and bootleg whiskey was more expensive than gasoline. Bed bugs, STD's, fight scars, and out of wed lock pregnancy and abandoned children were sad facts of life. Most workers left after several years really no better off than they came.

Kinda pizzes me off when i hear people moan about not having a job, yet won't do anything to get up off their azzes to look for work, or look for pathetic excuses not to work. Everybody who is capable can find something...

Honestly here, if you are not working it is because you choose not to. In our motel we employ workers from overseas. Not because it is cheaper, simply because we cannot find Australian workers.

Honestly, if I had the means to move to have a sure job, knowing how nice that sounds, I might even jump on it. My big problem is that I tried that once moving to the other half of America, and things turned out REALLY bad. I won't go into full details, but even though it sounds amazing and I would honestly love to move to a place like AZ one day, as of right now, I simply don't have the means to protect myself financially or even move out to a place like that ya know?

that is not the case here though

there are an abundance of people seeking work, something like five for every possible ADVERTISED opening,,,that means at least 80 percent wont HAVE a job unless they are in a network to HEAR about positions and have the right references

than there is location, and credit, and past work history and all the other criteria that go into hiring here in america

Our climate varies all over the country and the mines are in variuos places, from the hot to the cold, I can only speak for the NT which is hot, but it's not really unpleasant, our winters hit 80 to 90 through the days and our summers probably 90 to 110 .
Mining can be hard work, obviously that is the reason the pay is good, you do fly in and out, you live in the camps that they provide, well at least the ones up here you do, they supply sleeping arrangements and food.
Their are no drugs or alcohol allowed and you are tested each day, if you fail the test you are fired.
I have not heard any of the boys complain who work in the mines, yep they work their backsides off, most of them stay 4 or 5 years, but the ones I know end up with homes and cares out of it, no they are not all qualified when they start

Unemployment is high here to in the UK, around 8% or nearly 3 million people, sadly, 1 million of those are young people below 24. It is good to hear of job opportunities, so at least people are made aware of them, even if moving to another country is not for them. My daughter and her husband, and with two very young children, made the
move 8 years ago to Perth, WA, and I am very pleased to say they are making a successful new life for themselves, and are very happy living in Australia.

Here is an interesting statistic which I found very surprising, the total population of all Australia is approximately 23 million people. No wonder they need workers.

In the UK we have a total population of approximately 62 million.