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How to Get Local Experience

The "Australia Job Search" page offers some tips about how to approach the lack of local experience. This can be a barrier for many new residents in getting Australian jobs.

One of the things that may create difficulties in landing your first job is the requirement for Australian experience.

When you start browsing job ads you will find this requirement quite often.

Well, if you did not live in Australia at all before becoming a permanent resident, you don’t have that experience. So how do you overcome this?

In most cases if your skills and experience are what the organisation needs, lacking Australian experience is not an issue.

But if you find that it is a problem, then one way to address it is to look for opportunities to do volunteer work.

How does volunteering help?

• It helps integrate faster into the Australian way of life, meet new people, make friends.
• And later on you can ask them to provide you with a reference. Your potential employers will want to talk about you with someone who knows how you work and behave in a work environment.
• If English is not your first language, volunteering will provide you with opportunities to do a lot of talking and to practise your English. You will also get familiar with the Australian slang and various turns of phrase that are unique to the Australian language.
• Volunteering can help you acquire new skills that you can include on your resume.
• And it speaks volumes about you to potential employers.

And, what is also important about volunteering is that you will get the satisfaction that you are doing something for the community.

Give it a try.

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