Aaaaggghhh!!! Ever since I made the brave (read: probably very stupid) move to quit my job and go home I have desperately seeking some form of (legal) financial income to support me and my houses once home. Alas, there simply isn't anything around - or at least, nothing around that can be found when you are currently outside of Brisbane...
In the UK, if you need a teaching job, there is only one place to look. TES online. That's it. The definitive place to find a job.
In Australia, you need a newspaper. A hard copy too, right there in your hands. Forget the internet, no one advertises there - they don't have good enough service provision and don't have the proper forethought to see just how advantageous it could be to advertise online! There are a few online sites, but they are pretty few and far between, and to be fair, are pretty ordinary - they keep publishing the same jobs (even though the application deadline has LONG passed - today is the 6th October and I can still see jobs with a closing date of 15th September!). I've tried seek.com.au (total waste of time - you state you want a job actually IN Brisbane and they show you a bunch in Cairns - go figure?), careerone.com.au (who really aren't much better - although they have a so-called job alerts thing that really is the most impossible thing to try and manage - and when they actually send you an alert, the closing date for the job has usually passed), Best Jobs Australia (which seem only to advertise jobs in China) and today I tried a new one - australiarecruit.net, who basically regurgitate the unhelpful careerone.com.au! I mean, since when does typing 'music' and 'education' into the search engine bring about a most meaningful job as a florist at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre? 'Bout the best thing I found was a Peforming Arts job in the UAE - which brings me to another future blog rant - Muslims and Music... but I'll save that for another time...
Anyway, I even tried signing up for some supply agencies - what a waste that was - one of them told me I'd need to do a phone interview, arranged a time and all (like I have nothing better to do at 11pm at night, right?) and then didn't call. And when I tried to reschedule - well, have I heard anything back? Damn right, I haven't!
So then I decided to go with Dad's great idea of having an online CV - apparently a lot of people do that (why? No-one seems to actually use the internet in Brisbane!). I spent all weekend (well, other than my time at Graeme's wedding, or at Erik's dinner - or at Mal's lunch on Sunday...) devising my "wham, bam, thank you Ma'am" whizz-bang website - but it took so long to upload that I was afraid I'd miss the closing time for one of the jobs I actually did find online - so I wasn't able to include it in my supporting statement. I literally got the popup window announcing a successful publish 30 minutes after I'd sent off my application.
Another disadvantage of being overseas looking for a job in Oz, is, unlike the Brits, who can't find enough teachers here and therefore don't mind appointing someone from a phone interview, schools at home just don't seem interested enough to do that - and if you mention that dreaded evil word "webcam"? Boo, hiss, get away from me Satan, I can't figure out how to do that...
So I seem destined to join the queue at Centrelink...
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