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With a $4375AU Gold price, are you looking for your mining job in the right place?
$4375AU Gold price, are you looking for your mining job in the right place?
If you have been looking to get into the mining industry but not having much luck. Then this article explains how, if you don’t have all the information, it becomes very hard to get your first mining job. An example of this is the new high in the Australian Gold price, of $4375 an ounce. If you don’t know about the boom in Gold, it means you are probably looking in the wrong place for your first mining job.
So, what does this have to do with jobs? At this price every Gold mining company in the country is trying to ramp up production. This means ramping up existing operations as well as opening new ones. Which means lots and lots of new jobs, most of which will have to be filled with new starters. If you didn’t know this (like most don’t), you would only be looking at the Coal and Iron Ore jobs.
If you have only been looking at Coal and Iron Ore it’s not your fault, it’s all the media seem to cover regarding jobs. How are you supposed to look at the Gold jobs, if the media don’t cover that they need people? It’s the same problem with Copper. The mining companies are ramping up and reopening mothballed mines all over the country. They are doing this to take advantage of the prices and like with Gold, this means jobs. Lots and lots of production mining jobs. What mining jobs am I talking about? Jobs like Nipper, Truck Operator, Service Crew, Paste Crew, Agi and Offsider (both surface and underground). If you type “underground” into seek you will see all these jobs, come up.
Employers want experience, there is no way around that. However, it’s not the type of experience people think they want. Most people think that its time driving a truck, with a ticket attached. That’s not going to get you a job, the person that decides who gets hired like the foreman or PM (project manager), could care less about your equipment tickets. They can’t use them, they have to issue their own onsite inductions, procedures and equipment tickets as per each states mining regulations. Teaching someone to drive the truck is the easy part, teaching them enough about how the mine works, so they can be left alone to drive the truck on their own. That’s the hard part and why there is a high turnover of new starters.
If you come at the Foreman or PM with a resume full of equipment tickets. It just screams “I don’t know how your mine works” and those resumes get culled in the first round. When the Foreman looks at your resume you have 6 seconds, there is either something on there that tells them you know something, anything about how their mine works or there isn’t. So, if you can show the employer that you know how their mine works and what’s going to be expected of you working on their mine site. Then you have something to offer them.
So, the moral to the story is, knowing how the mine works and what is going to be expected of you on site, is the best way to get a job. Education is key and those that know Gold is making another new high in Aussie dollars are ahead of the game. That’s where you want to be, educated and hunting for jobs. If you are planning a mining career, then it pays to invest in the mining knowledge you will need to find and survive in one of these jobs.
There is 50 hours of important information in the DIY introduction to underground mining training package, there are full instructions on how to redo your resume (it takes about 2 hours to do it yourself) and interview prep questions as well as a mining company to apply to directly. If you want your resume done for you checkout our 3 Step Plan package.
If you want help getting in, they also do a Workready package, where you get a ticketed WA shift boss to help you with the mining information, redo your resume, interview prep and come up with a plan of where and how to get in.
I hope this info helps.
The Mining Coach
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