The comments below are real and from Reddit. They’re three months old. Getting a job in Adelaide can be a slog. Thats why you need a professional resume writer with a background in employment and training.
“Had a national role, recruiters say I’ll get bored with roles available in Adelaide (isn’t that up to me 🤔) and now I’m about to join hospitality for a whopping 9 hours a week. Very depressing conditions. About 95% do not even respond.”
“Honestly, keep applying for roles where you have skills, Adelaide unfortunately is who you know, not what you know. I’d highly recommend getting a front facing LinkedIn and start connecting with people and recruiters. As a graphic designer, I’ve been head hunted in Adelaide through LinkedIn.”
“If you are willing to take lower paying jobs you will need to make your cv look “less than”. When I first moved back to Australia I wasn’t getting any interviews. I dropped off my degrees, downplayed some of my experience, and I finally got several job interviews.”
“Very hard I know. But the closer you go to the job, the better are your chances for a job. I was driving taxi and every time I dropped someone at the airport or picked from airport, I network with them professionally and leave a resume with them to contact me if there was anything. In most cases I used to ask for their email id, and send them the resume. Doing it for 5 months I finally got into an engineering job interview.”
“When I moved to Adelaide 10 years ago I couldn’t get a look in anywhere. It’s all about who you know in Adelaide so I started to build a network. I volunteered at a lot of places and took casual jobs whenever and wherever they were going (fringe, Adelaide show, events, etc). I talked to EVERYONE and told everyone I was looking for a job. Finally from word of mouth I got a job at a restaurant and once I was in and had a solid Adelaide reference, I was golden. I know it sucks, but hang in there. Get your name out there. Talk to everyone. Know it’s not an issue with you, but a way this town works. Wishing you all the best!”
“Was in a similar situation. Ended up taking casual admin work with one of the local health networks and slowly getting back into my field through that.”
“It took me 6 months to find another job, so I definitively know how you feel. Wrote bespoke cover letters for every job that i had skills for… it still took ages until someone gave me a job.”
“Do the old fashioned walk-ins, especially with smaller businesses as larger businesses will just direct you to the careers section on their website because they don’t want to deal with walk-ins… you’d be surprised how effective it still is, know a lot of people who have got jobs this way… sometimes it’s the small businesses that advertise on their windows or in the local papers because they don’t have to pay recruiters. Sometimes you can get a WFH position in your field based interstate?”
“For hospitality, just rack up there (cafe or restaurants) when it’s closing time, and ask to speak with the manager and tell them you really need a job. No need to ask if they are hiring or not. Closing time is good because that’s where the staff and the manager really will have the time to pay you some attention cause they won’t be busy (& less chance to throw away your resume)”
“I’m 20F, and I’ve lived in Adelaide my entire life and I love it here, but job hunting has been a nightmare in terms of short-term employment (retail, hospo, those kinda jobs), so I’m thinking I need to get my s**t together and find a course of study/start working towards a proper career, but every person I’ve asked in regards to work says that there’s no demand for any of those jobs (I’ve tried looking into social work, hairdressing, film and television I hold a diploma in that, banking, sales) so what jobs are actually in demand here?”