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New Australian Gold price high $3761 an ounce means even more jobs for New Starters
If you don’t know about the New Australian Gold price high of $3761 an ounce that happened a few weeks ago. Then you’re probably looking in the wrong place for your entry level mining job. I hear it and see it all the time, people looking for entry level jobs in mining but not having much luck. The people that I come across having no luck all have the same problem. They seem to only have a limited amount of information (often wrong or out dated), about where and what you have to do to get an entry level mining job. I keep on coming across people spend lots of time and money looking in all the wrong places and doing useless equipment tickets, instead of getting a job.
So, what does the new Gold price high have to do with jobs? At $3761 an ounce every gold mining company in the country is ramping 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 Gold price high, like most people reading this (it wasn’t covered in the media at all). Then you have probably been looking in the wrong areas because the media (both social and main stream) have been telling you that the mining jobs are in Coal, Iron Ore and Shutdown/Civil. It’s easy to see why so many people get confused and spend $1000’s following instructions to get equipment tickets, the S11, etc, then having done so, don’t get a mining job or even a response in some cases.
If you listen to media, both social and main stream, you will end up spending big money on tickets and training that Gold mining employers can’t use. It’s a little-known fact that all 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 that can work by themselves safely.
You see the problem that all employers 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.
You can use one of the Underground Training packages to get this knowledge and give them what they want. There is 50 hours of important mining information contained in the packages, as well as interview prep and a full instruction on how to make a mining friendly resume in the DIY package. If you want help with your resume checkout the 3 Step Plan package or for full support, we do a Workready package. Where you get a ticketed WA shift boss to help you with the mining information. They get your resume redone, help you with interview prep and come up with a plan of where and how to get in. Doing one of these packages will not only make it much easier to get a start, it will ensure you have all the information and tools you need to make a career out of it once onsite.
I hope this info helps.
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