New Australian Gold price high $3269 an ounce means lots of new Jobs

So, what does the new Gold price high have to do with jobs? At $3269 an ounce every gold mining company in the country will be 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 (just type “underground” into seek and you will see all the jobs). If you didn’t know about the high Gold price, like most don’t. Then you will have been looking at Coal, Iron Ore and Shutdown/Civil for jobs, like the media (both social and main stream) have been telling you to do. It’s easy to see why so many people get confused when they follow the instructions (tickets, S11, etc) and then don’t get a job or even a response in some cases.

If you listen to them, you will end up spending big money on tickets and training that the Gold mining employers can’t use. It’s a little known fact that all the Gold mining companies have to issue their own equipment tickets and procedures (including inductions) for each site they have. Employers want experience, there is no way around that. However, it’s not the type of experience that you think they want. Most people think that its time driving a truck with a ticket attached, but 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 want people that know how their mine works so they throw them in the deep end and get a productive member of crew quickly.

You see the problem that they all have, is teaching someone to drive the truck is the easy part, it only takes a couple of weeks. 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 (can take months for some people) and why there is a high turnover of new starters (the employers don’t have months for you to get it). Knowing how their mine works is a skill all employers need and want their employees to have (which most new starters overlook).

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. Come at the Foreman or PM with a resume full of equipment tickets that they can’t use. Then it just screams “I don’t know how your mine works” and those resumes get culled straight away. The moral to the story is 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. That’s how you can get your entry level job in a Gold mine.