Finding Work & Accommodation in Perth, Western Australia | FIFO | EP27 - Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video we dive into to talk about finding work & accommodation in Perth, WA, fly in fly out work, the benefits, applications and much more
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CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO 🎬
00:00 - Intro
01:35 - Recap: Last 4-5 weeks
02:31 - Why I moved to Perth
03:27 - Research, study & progression
05:05 - Finding work: opinions on Perth
05:30 - What I applied for
06:18 - 3 main ways
07:11 - 1st method: Online, with examples
07:48 - 2nd method: In person, with examples
08:43 - 3rd method: Networking, with examples
09:45 - How I found my job
11:06 - Documentation & standing out
11:41 - Ticking boxes for employers
12:33 - Documentation contact details
13:07 - Documentation contents
13:51 - Finding accommodation: short term
14:05 - How long to book
14:11 - Why to book short term
15:05 - Prior research & prices
15:44 - Ways to find with examples
16:03 - How I found mine
16:18 - Finding accommodation: long term
16:22 - Factors to consider
18:00 - Final tips
21:25 - Outro
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Hey, what’s going on everyone! Another addition to the series 🤩
This one’s about my personal experience with fly in fly out work (FIFO).
Any questions at all, feel free to comment below or send me a DM on IG 📲🤙🏾
Have a wonderful day legends! 🙏🏽
Very helpful!!
Thanks man. Really helped a lot of tips.
New sub here.
Thank you Benjamin! 😎🇦🇺✨
Hey Nikki, ahh that’s great to hear 🤩🙏🏽 glad it helped you (: thanks for the sub bro! ☺️👌🏾 Safe travels friend 👣🌍
@@BenjaminHardingx welcome. will support your channel man. thanks ✌️😎👑✨
Thanks a lot for the tips, man.
New sub here! 🙂
Ah thanks Allan 🙏🏽☺️ means a lot! (:
Great video. Hope to check out your updates.
Ah thank you ☺️ 🙏🏽 sounds good 👌🏾
In Summer '24 UK passport holders can work with no industry restrictions for up to 3yrs.
sick video, i’m heading out to start my working holiday visa in just over a fortnight and i’m buzzing ! my background is in hospitality but i’m looking to branch out and get new skills so i’ve been really drawn to mining. trying to keep a growth mindset and push myself out my comfort zone to stop myself working the same bar jobs which i’ve already progressed in.
Hello there Bruno, ah thanks so much mate! Glad you liked it (: That sounds great! Keep learning, experimenting & growing brother 🙏🏽🎉 buzzing for ya - hope it all goes well 🤙🏾
How's it going one year later buddy??? Looking to make the jump myself and I'm wanting to go into mining
Cheers dude ❤
No worries at all ☺️🙏🏽 thanks for your comment NatCorry (:
Good stuff 👏
Thank you ☺️ glad you liked it!
My friend is working out of Perth fifo plumber in the mines and loves it. He's telling me to join him.. so I'm now going to look into it 🤞
Sounds cool that mate, I hope it all works out for you 🤙🏾☺️
Any entry level jobs going for an Irishman looking to relocate?
I am also a plumber and I want to go and work there.
How can I apply for work from outside Australia?
@BenjaminHardingx thanks mate 👍
@@ragnarjakobsen7722 How can I submit from Job
rental market in Perth now...a year later is VERY tight. 0.5% vacancy rate !
Hey,
It's nice to see you here. Do you run the business? You look ambitious. Are you ambitious?
many FIFO roles in WA are now 8/6 rosters. (8 days on 6 off...not weeks!).
if at all possible DO NOT start an outdoor FIFO role in the summer months (nov - mar)...the area where the roles are situated (the Pilbara) is EXTREMELY hot in those months
Hey Dave, thanks for all this helpful info! Really appreciate it mate 🙏🏽☺️
Hey, when you said you applied for Hospitality work (bars restaurants ect) was that only including the mining companies or hospitality as a whole in Perth? Myself and a few friends are heading over end of this year and we all have hospitality backgrounds
Hey there Eryn, I applied for both! So fifo utilities (bar, restaurant, cleaning etc)
Searched on seek, jora, indeed.
Also went down Scarborough looking for bar work & few back then had vacancies!
Trying to find Accom there though was a nightmare & so expensive for what you get 😅 didn’t check Perth city but it’s pretty busy normally. Northbridge too. Hope this helps 🙏🏽 thanks for your comment (:
Im looking at doing DAMA designated area migration agreement, finding it really hard to get a response from anyone. They seem very slow and relaxed about getting back to you.
Im a truck driver and will go pretty much anywhere as i just want to get away from the UK.
Hello mate, thanks for your comment!
Yeah I’ve heard of DAMA. Those visas take ages to get sorted, that’s why I’ve gone for all the easy to apply for ones. You eligible for the working holiday visa?
Is that burns bch at the beginning of the video? If it is wow its sure changed since i remember it as a young fella in the 70s. Just a few beach shacks back then and sand dunes and a caravan park 😊
Hey Acdz, at the very beginning yes it is! Old burns beach (: oh really? There’s so many new developments with new burns beach too! Expanding down the coastline atm. There’s still a caravan park right next to the coast, I bet that’s the same one too ayy 🙌🏽 thanks for sharing (:
@@BenjaminHardingx even mullaloo bch was like the ends of the world back then 🤣
I can simplify this guide. Know someone in management. If not. No chance. Or at least in underground mining which pays better.
Hey man, to work as a Drillers Offsider you have to have a WA driving licence, for this you also need a permanent address in Australia as I saw on the Department of Transport website. How did you get around being able to convert a UK driving licence to a WA one without having a permanent address? (ie: if you were living in temp accommodation such as a hostel?)
Hey mate, thanks for reaching out with this comment (: yeah, correct 👍🏽 I have had a full time address in WA since Oct 2022. That address is what’s on my WA driving licence & registered with my banks etc. I was only in the hostel for like 4 days as had to move out of the house for a week that crossed over with fifo swing. The hostels were so expensive back then too 😅
Any other questions, lmk 🤙🏾
Hope this helps, cheers bud!
hey bud, im not sure if you been ask, isnt it cheaper to live in bali than perth for your 7 days off?
Hey Don1ci1cio, cheers for ya comment. I’m not working in FIFO anymore but my friends go over a lot & say that. I got a lot commitments here at the moment (:
Hi Ben, was the construction work you did in the Northern Territory easy to find? How did you go about it? I'm thinking of heading over in a month or so and it seems like I'd be best getting the regional work out of the way first with the time of year. Construction in Darwin counts towards the 88 days doesn't it?
Hey Daireb123, thanks for reaching out! It did take a few weeks yeah. I signed up with 2-3 agencies when I arrived.
1. Core staff
2. Protech
3. Red Appointments agency I found my labouring job.
Worked on casual basis & just did as many hours as they would give me.
Yeah the whole of NT is considered regional & goes towards the 88 days.
I don’t think you have to do it after JULY though? Double check that on home affairs website.
Hope this helps & all the best 🤙🏾😆
@@BenjaminHardingx thanks for the quick reply. I'll look into those agencies. So if I can only get casual hours too how does it work? I know weekends don't count towards the 88 days unless you're full time, so is it one day for every 7.5 hours worked? I'm Irish so still got to do the days unfortunately...
@@BenjaminHardingx and what tickets did you need for the labouring?
@@daireb123 hey mate, so when I was doing it I’d work casual for 5 days from Monday to Friday, that working week I’d get more than 38+ hours so that counted as 7 days of the 88.
My workplace was giving me 10 hours a day too so I was generating good money with casual rate & overtime. When I was there I saw a lot of expansion in the NT suburbs. The above was my agent, but the employer I worked for was Ostojic Civil Construction, they’re huge up there 🙌🏽 I’d say start with Red Appointments & see if Amanda is still working there, she was awesome & got me setup super fast (: hope this helps bud!
@@daireb123 just needed the white card (:
Im an offshore worker in the UK. Have built offshore wind turbines for the past 7 years. Do you think there will be plenty of opportunity for me in the mines in WA?
Hey Ryan, thanks for reaching out bud! Hope all is good in the UK 🤙🏾
If you’ve got a large amount of work experience in a trade, that’s going to be so advantageous! You’d just need to figure out what visa to go on that allows you to work. Also if there’s any vacancies similar to your experience? Seek jobs is one of the biggest for job ads, you had a look on there yet?
One of the problems I struggled with was experience, and specifically “fifo experience”. Hope this helps mate 👍🏽
@@BenjaminHardingx well, I fly to different countries and then get a helicopter to the installation ship so I would guess that would qualify as fifo experience. I earn about 70-80k gbp in the Uk every year but seen mechy position for 2-300k a year in WA. Insane
@@ryanbell4952ahh yeah, nice one mate! Yeah the money in the mines is so high 🔥💯 could apply for some & see what comes back ayy, best of luck with the search bud 🙏🏽 (:
Yes, what are you waiting for? 😂
Is a mining fifo job applyable to extend my working visa? i'm going to perth in 2weeks and instead of doing farms i would like to do a fifo job
Hey Vibeart, thanks for reaching out! 🙏🏽 (: I’ve heard that you can do it that way. To be sure though id check the job role & location postcode on the home affairs website to be safe!
Here’s the link below for more info:
immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/work-holiday-417/specified-work
Hope this helps friend! Any other questions, give me a shout ☺️🤙🏾
Do you think it will be easier to find work than it has been for yourself for someone who has a trade such as a mechanical fitter or electrical engineer for example
Hey Owen, thanks for reaching out mate! 🙏🏽 yeah I reckon so. Going into mining for me I only had the construction background with labouring (so very limiting for jobs to apply for)
The more experience & qualified the better, are you certs from aus? Would your qualifications be recognised in WA? That be good to find out - hope this helps & all the best with the search! (:
What the off sider hourly rate ? Also mining isnt wasy to get into ,you dont make big money unless you have a trade , on a holiday visa you wont get hired as an operator on a mine site ,unless its driving a moxy on the construction side and the money isnt fantastic
Hey mate, thanks for reaching out! Only just seen this 😅 I was on $30 p/hr (35 with HR). Isn’t the best amount but my options were limited at the time, hope this helps 🤙🏾
@BenjaminHardingx ah I'm already in mining man , I'm a diesel fitter ,I do 6 week swings ,I'm a contractor for a major company ,In newman as we speak , I was just been nosey
Great video ..
I am heading to perth on a work visa soon and i am targeting construction FIFO. Any advice?
And hey, you just got a new subscriber.
If you will still be in Perth, can we meet up once i am around?
Hey Viktor, yeah nice one! Myself & all my backpacker travel friends found it really hard to get into, especially on the WH 417 visa. I hear from locals & other fifo workers that best way in is through referral/someone you know already working in the industry. If they have contacts that know of vacancies & can match your experience & qualifications then that be good. I myself have struggled massively with it, my work has dried up & the client projects have been slowing down. I’ve applied for so many jobs online & it’s super competitive. You may have a different experience to me though, could get lucky & find a way in somehow 🤙🏾
Most companies want fifo experience & alot of experience in the job you’re applying for so make it visible straight away on your CV/Resume. Apply for all jobs you think you’d be able to provide value & consistently keep applying. (I applied for weeks to months). Network where you can & talk to everyone. Online & offline 🙏🏽
Thanks for subbing my friend, the support means a lot 🙏🏽☺️ and yeah man, I’ll be around- give us a shout on IG 🤙🏾
Cheers for ya comment & best of luck with it all bud!
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if at all possible DO NOT start an outdoor FIFO role in the summer months (nov - mar)...the area where the roles are situated (the Pilbara) is EXTREMELY hot in those months
Do you hold any certs related to your current job profile?
Hey mate, thanks for your comment (:
Yeah: first aid, work at heights, needed HR licence too but I had no work coming in with that job, so changed industries after that. Hope this helps 🤙🏾 all the best with it bud 🙏🏽
Can you help me found mining engineer job in perrh 😢.i tried many but😢
Hi, been watching a few of your videos with my partner. We are really considering moving as an option of sponsors visa has come up.
Main worry is household income to outgoings. Would 130k be enough for a family of 5 roughly? I know it’s hard for you to say without having 3 children yourself but any help would be appreciated. Thankyou
Hey there Kiesherlock91,
Thanks for reaching out (: yeah, hard to say on that one. Alot of variables there to consider, how much you spend, where you want to live & what accom you choose, sponsor visa costs, weekly living costs (food,drink), travel/commuting costs. I’d just do as much research as possible into what you want your family life to look like in that new location ✈️🏡
Also consider when the next pay checks coming in after you relocate. If it’s a while then the bigger the “safety net” (funds in the bank) then the better.
Hope this helps in some way, best of luck with your research 🙏🏽🇦🇺
pre tax income in Aus$? = no
take home pay in Aus$? = possibly
uk pounds take home = certainly
uk pounds pre tax = yes
did you have previous Drilling experience?
Hey Richard, thanks for ya comment! And no I didn’t, only construction experience, cheers :)
Hi mate, I'm petroleum engineer without experience how can i get FiFo job in there?
Hey mate, cheers for reaching out 🤙🏾 I’d say apply for all your desired jobs online (start with “SEEK” ) & network in person as much as possible.
I know of a few people that got in with no experience by a referral of their mate or someone they know in the industry. Cheers & all the best 🙏🏽
Hello bro.
Can I get a job as I have done Bechlors in Mechanical engineer,
Hello mate, thanks for reaching out! (:
The degree will be good to apply with but alot of companies need experience. I’d recommended applying on seek jobs with everything you can offer the employer in relation to the job role you’re applying for (state this clearly on your resume/cv), then see what comes back. Hope this helps bud 🙏🏽 all the best with the search (:
With the roster two weeks on and one week off, can you spend your week off on site but not do work.
Hey mate, cheers for ya comment!
I wasn’t allowed to because the accommodation & food was being paid for by the client, I needed to work to get those 2 paid for. If I didn’t it would’ve cost me alot. Also with such a regional location, it was the only accom in the area so those rooms were always filled with workers.
Hope this helps 🤙🏾
Hello Brother I don't know if you reply but still hope. I'm from India and very passionate about mining industry because from starting I'm living in a mining area. I have worked hard here but now I wanted to join Australia mining industry so Can you please help me out if possible I'll be in forever debt of yours brother. I want to know will mining companies sponsor my visa? And I want to relocate if I have. PLEASE SIR
Hello, how many years old I has have for work in FIFO, what is the range of years old. And how is the Darwin programme of migration. Greets from Uruguay.
Hello there Waltergarre, I have mates that do fifo from 18 years old up to 50+ years old. So a big range of age.
Darwin is great in the dry season, lovely warm temperatures but the wet season is pretty full on! Depends on what ya relocating for, work, travel or both? I was working in civil construction and work got rained off a lot. If your working inside then no worries. Hope this helps mate (: 🙏🏽
@@BenjaminHardingx Hello Benjamin thanks for you answer . I have any question; if I go to Darwin with tourist visa can I meet work. Greets.
Do they pay you in USD or AUD?
AUD 🤙🏾😁
Australian pesos 😂😊
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Hi im from kenya i wonder if the mining company sponser visa and flight?...
Hey, thanks for reaching out mate!
I’m not too sure on that one unfortunately. You’d have to talk with your employer about their procedures for such things.
My flights were booked and paid for prior to departing from Perth to site.
Hope this helps 🤙🏾
Cheers
Hi I am here in Perth for 1 month plus searching jobs . Can you help me in beginner guide to get job in fifo . Thank you your new subscriber
Hey Msvideo, thanks for reaching out! (:
I’d recommend looking at your work experience & skills then see what jobs would best suit this in relation to fifo.
Highlight this work experience & skills on your CV/resume (put it in clear sight) so your future employer can see them. References also help.
Apply for all the jobs you can find, online (seek jobs, Jora, indeed, direct on employers website)
Talk the the locals, network in person, see if any of your friends know of jobs going (this is How I got my job)
Be consistent every day with the process until you find something - Hope this helps (: massive happy new year to you mate 🎉🙏🏽 thanks
Ok let me help. Reach out and I'll show you what to do. I worked drills, Dump Trucks and now a HR manager in mining. If your serious I can help. Many want it on a silver plate.. doesn't work like that. Cheers!
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Can you get me job please 🙏
@@user-ic1wi1cr1y Hey, I've reached out on LinkedIn, hope we can connect there. Originally from UK am in Perth in August, seeking some advice 💜
What is the entry level to go to mining with nothing
Hey Muhammad, thanks for your comment! Only just seen this 😅 I had my white card but also needed first aid, working at heights and to get my HR licence. That was bare minimum for the offsider job, hope this helps (: