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EDIT : I got mamy questions from readers of this article. I put the questions and the answers at the end of this article. If you have new questions let me know in the comments and Ill get to them as soon As I get a chance.LET’S DO IT !!!!!START HERE ➡️ ➡️ I guarantee, by the time you finish reading this article and apply what I say, you will 100% get your dream job extremely fast, not just in Australia but anywhere in the world.I came to Australia in 2005 as a student to do my Bsc at Monash University, Clayton VIC. I finished my degree in 2008 and in the same year I landed a Web Designer job at a reputable company in Richmond.Then I went to an even better job, then even better salary and along the way, I worked at Deakin University in Burwood as a Web Development Coordinator as well. Oh man I LOVED that job. 2 mins drive from my home, brand new $5000 upgraded Apple Macbook Pro for free, ability to work from home for few days a week, ability work at the Deakin modern headoffice in CBD, super high tech conference rooms you’ve never seem before, Just WOW!When you find the #DreamJob you will never regret a single day.Landing jobs were extremely easy for me. You might think I'm extremely smart and talented. NO! and NO!. I think Im just creative and brave. I don’t give a rats ass about what others think and I always jump and take risks without worrying about the consequences. Be like that and you’ll go places and remember life is too short to live small and be an average-bloke no one remembers.I got normal grades at school and even in Uni. My programming skills are below the average requirement Employers looking for. Seriously. I am a Front-end Developer (Website builder) and my jQuery and Angular skills (programming skills) are around 3/10. So I am not the most skilled and experienced person.I landed jobs because I followed a specific path and some secrets I figured out by myself. I did few things other candidates didn’t bother doing. I'm going to tell you all in this article.My friends had a really hard time landing jobs and I realised they have been doing everything wrong. I know a LOT of people happily spend thousands of dollars on course fees, spend years and years at universities and in the end, end up doing an odd job they are not proud of. Many people are stressed at work or in the wrong field because they don’t know how to land their #dreamjob. Job takes up all your life and it’s meant to make you feel happy, safe and motivated not the other way round. Everyone is promoting “Quit 9–5” but No! Find the right 9–5 and it’ll help you save a lot of money, buy a nice house, find the right partner and have more free time for yourself. It did for me. That’s the reason I decided to write this article.Don’t think going to the best universities or just coming to Australian alone will give you a bright future. There’s more to it. You have to work extremely hard on yourself, on your career and everyone around you and that will guarantee a bright future. I’m going to help you get the “Your career” part right. :)I’m going to tell you how to get a job in Australia the easy way, no bull.I’m a Sri Lankan. The whole process of getting a job is very different in here. This article is for all the International blokes and local blokes who are having a hard time landing a job. I wish someone told me these earlier in my career. Things would have been so much easier that way. But no one in the freaking world was able to put down some points together and give a sure fire way to land a job. Because no one wants to share their secrets.OK... Here you go…1) Change your name.Yes from today you will get yourself a name that’s easy to pronounce and remember.My actual name is Udara Uragoda. But I use Udi Ura when applying for jobs. I still apply for jobs with my original name, but you get better chances with an English name. If you are Ching Chong, go with something like Michael Chong. You get the idea right? Same with Indians, Bangladeshis, Vietnamese, Chinese etc. Change your name. Why? Because it's simply easy to remember and pronounce.EDIT: Some asked me if they have to change the name “legally”. No! Just a pet name. Everyone has one, so get one for yourself as well.2) Get your own domain name.Now, if your new name is Udi Ura, get http://UdiUra.com.au, if its Jay Singh, get http://JaySinghe.com.au. It's $12 per year, $24 for 2 years on Crazy Domains. Why? I’ll explain further down.3) Now setup a simple Website for yourself.If you don’t know how to, then get someone from FIVERR .com to setup a simple wordpress site for you. Wonder why you need a website? See the FAQs section at the end of the article but first finish reading this.Keep everything simple. Don’t follow the CV structure you followed when you were back in your country. Keep it really simple on the website as well. I’ll tell you more about the CV structure later.4) Do your CVDo not follow the CV structure you used back in your country. Australian CV structure is EXTREMELY different. Don’t ever put things like Bio data, Nationality, Height, Weight (lol), hair colour etc.Ok. This is important. Companies have CV filtering systems. They search for keywords in your CV and that’s how they drill down 10,000 applications to 5 applications. To tackle this, make sure to have good keywords in the body text of your CV and cover letter. If you are a web designer, include web site design, UX Design, UI Developer etc in the body of the CV when writing.5) Do a Cover LetterOk back to the list. Again keep it simple and very different to the cover letters back in your country. Don’t ever say “Dear Sir”. Australians don't use Sir. Say “Dear {first name}” example “Dear Michelle” instead.6) Search for Jobs on SEEKGo to SEEK - Australia's no. 1 jobs, employment, career and recruitment site and start looking for jobs. When you apply, make sure to save the job description into word documents if you're interested.Create folders for every month and copy and paste the job descriptions into word documents and save it in your folder. The reason is usually companies take down their job listing from Seek when they start sorting candidates.7) Applying for JOBS. Read Carefully!Ok. This is the most important part.Before applying, proofread everything. Give it to someone in FIVERR and proofread your CV and Cover Letter both. Then fix your Website and the LinkedIn profile as wellThink of it this way. If you don’t even spend some time to show that you really like to work in a particular company and you don’t even call them and ask their Human Resources Manager’s name or the person in charge of your role’s name, why would they give a shit about you?First things firstFirst, make sure the Job title is displayed in your CV and Cover letter as EXACTLY as the company’s job description. If the company is looking for a Front-end Web Developer, change your CV and Cover Letter header part to Front-end Web Developer. Don’t just leave it as Web Developer or Web Programmer.Everything in your Cover letter and CV should align with what the company is looking for. You are the one looking for the job, not the company. So give your CV and Cover Letter some thought before applying.The important thing is, you don’t have to apply for 100s of jobs. You only have to apply for 10–20 jobs, the right way and BOOM!Emailing the CVOnce CV and Cover Letter is ready, copy the cover letter heading and the body copy to your email, attach the CV and Cover letter and send it to the person. Send them in PDF format. Don’t ever send ugly word documents unless they specifically ask for it.Add your email signature as well with your new name, phone, email etc.Following upAfter a day or two, call them and ask them about the job you applied. Every company will provide you how they are going.8) InterviewLet’s say a company calls you for an interview. Here’s how you will attend the interviewBe PreparedYou are so close to getting the job. So don’t mess it up.First, research about the company. What they do, their website, staff, managers, directors, type of work they do and what your exact role is at the company.Search the company on Google and read their Articles, PR articles, Facebook, News everything you can find. Know 100% in and out of the company. This alone will increase your chances of landing the job by 100%.They will ask you questions to see if you actually did any research. Do it! It's very very very very important.Dress codeIf you are a male, wear a nice suit and a tieBe there at least 5 minutes before the interview. Don’t ever get late. Once I got 10 mins late and the HR manager asked me to leave after I arrive at their office. If you ever get late, call them and inform. But if you are late it’s bad first impression so you might as well drive back home.If you are a woman, get a nice office suite from a good clothing shop. Google office attire and follow them.My dream is to get this article to 100,000 upvotes. So go ahead and hit Upvote and Comment. I promise I’ll reply :)All the best! Let me know how you go.Frequently Asked QuestionsI recently moved here. I don’t have experience or references. What should I doI know. I’ve been there too. How can I get 2 years of freakin experience if you are not willing to give me a job right? Do this. Look for internships. Ask to work for free. Start with a small entry type junior role. Work for no money. Gain the experience of atleast 6 months this way. That experience you gain will be worth a Million . Doesn’t have to be from the same company. But it has to be in the same industry or similar role. Don’t do random jobs. Decide which role or industry you want to work in, you are passionate about and then go hunt. It’ll be tough. Extremely tough. You’ll feel like giving up after going for 15 interviews. But don’t. You are always just 1 interview away from achieving your dream job, settling down, buying that house, car and having a happy life with so much money and freedom. (That’s what I kep telling myself in the early years and it works and it’s true )I’m overseas right now. How do I get a Job in Australia from here?I am not very knowledgeable in the work visa field. Talk to a reputed Australian migration agent. Send me a Message and I have couple of good contacts. Important thing is don’t look for cheap lawyers and waste your money. Many readers sent me messages saying they lost thousands by scam migration agents. So be cautious.I’m in engineering, medical, teaching, gardening field. Is this occupation in demand in Australia?Best way to find is by looking at current jobs. Go to http://seek.com.au and enter your role. Enter a broader keyword instead of a narrow one. Example : instead of typing “water engineer” or “transport engineer” type “civil engineer”. No plurals. Just singular.Then select Sydney and search. Go through all the job roles and read them. Do the same with Melbourne. Spend a good few hours researching and understand what’s in demand. No ones going to help you with these. You have to do it your self and become knowledgeable in your space and understand the job market. Remember, you have to adjust to the jobs in the market not the otherway round. If the jobs in the market is not what you want you have to adjust. You can’t stop the WAVES but you can learn to SWIM.Why do I need a website?Think of it this way. When you apply for a job, the first thing the recruiter will do is Google you. When that happends you have to be present on the internet. The recruiter expects to see your LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Stackoverflow, Dribble, Youtube, Personal Website (aha, see), comments you have made on public websites, etc. When someone searches you, the entire first page of good should be filled with your Stuff. That’s called being active and present in 2019.IF THERE’S ANYTHING ELSE YOU LIKE ANSWERED PUT IT IN COMMENTS.

tl;dr Nope; not necessary.The answers to this question are fascinating. I've found that the pro-cover letter camp folks are usually fairly adamant, and high minded, whereas the anti-cover letter camp is usually of the new, more relaxed generation. There's an air of old, tired crotchety-ness that comes across when people lecture others on why they must always write a cover letter. As if to say, "Tuck your shirt in, sonny!" Which is to say it's good advice, but it's not always necessary.To the asker of the question I would suggest looking not at the titles (as Joe Emison suggested), but rather at the the companies associated with the names of the people who are answering the question. Let that be your determination as to whose advice you'd like to take. There's a variety here and I'd submit to you that whether or not a cover letter is important is directly related to what type of company for which you'd like to work. Many, many, reputable tech companies could honestly care less about a cover letter. Others might care deeply. If a company falls into the latter, take note of because I guarantee that attitude creeps in elsewhere in that company's culture.My $.02 is that in my history of recruiting engineers for Google, Expedia, and LivingSocial, I can count on one hand the number of times I've even read through a cover letter, let alone considered one in whether or not I push a candidate through to the next level. I've read cover letters for MBA hires or Product Managers, or lower level positions, but never, ever, for engineers. In a particularly competetive market, time is a hot commodity. Most recruiters and engineering leaders don't often have time to read through cover letters. We want to get to the good part...the resume. I think we're in a new era where what you've done says a lot more than what you say. If you are a developer worth your salt, and you make your presence known via the work that you do, and expanding your expertise, you can write your own ticket. You can literally be minding your own business and recruiters will come banging down your door simply because you posted an insightful treatise that someone found on your dusty old blog, or you wrote an amazing application in your spare time, or you Tweeted that you were looking for a job. Cover letters may still be standard practice in a lot of other industries, but in software engineering, people just want to see the proof in the pudding. Your side projects, Github, Stackoverflow, online presence, open source contributions, and virtual portfolio of work will be what makes you (and your resume) stand out.I've worked very closely with the SVP of Technology and CTO here at LivingSocial and I promise you neither one has ever said "Hey where's this guy/gal's cover letter?" when I shot them over a resume to review. If your experience is lacking (as is often the case with those who write long cover letters), choose another method. Leaders like initiative. Get their attention in another way -- submit a mock-up of a project that relates to the company along with your resume, or a something that's a clever nod to their interests. Pretty much anything that shows that you're paying attention, but be able to back it up with experience.If you must placate your desire to write a cover letter, simply do it in the body of the email if you're emailing your resume to someone. And it had better be darn good. And short. And include lots of links. Otherwise, don't bother. If it's really bad, it'll likely get forwarded around the office too. We get a kick out of that.

Great question, because this is something almost everyone does wrong.There are thousands of books, courses, tutorials, and other forms of bullshit out there, all claiming to have the secret of a great resume and cover letter.There are probably millions of questions about it on Quora…“Is it ok to say X on a resume?”“How do I include the job I got fired from for spitting on the french fries 20 years ago in my cover letter?”And on and on…Maybe the colleges are to blame.They teach you a lot of stuff there. Some of it is even useful.But they also teach you an extremely formal, academic style of writing. They teach you that there are rules, and you must follow them unquestioningly.People who are so good at self promotion that they work in the guidance office of a mid tier state school somewhere claim to have all the secrets of crafting the perfect resume to get you the job of your dreams…But there’s one very important thing they don’t teach you in school…Marketing.(This is especially true if you go to school to study marketing)Your cover letter and resume are marketing documents. Nothing more.People write their cover letters like they’re writing a college essay. Long, formal sentences. Big, complicated words in place of common ones. Times New Roman font and a carefully selected template to look as ‘professional’ as possible.Go ahead, pull up an example of a cover letter. Maybe even your own. Sit down and try to read it.Boring, right?Now imagine you’re some underpaid HR worker at some company, and you’ve got a stack of 4000 of those. Most of them go straight into the garbage.Instead, view your cover letter as a piece of marketing copy.You are the product. You’re selling yourself.If you have a ‘template’ letter that you’re spamming companies with, just pasting in the company name and job title each time (except when you forget), delete it right now.You need to write each letter from scratch. It needs to be tailored to the company and job you’re applying for.Keep the letter short. Keep the sentences short. Get rid of the 9 syllable words. You think they make you look smart, but instead, they get your letter ignored.Make it easy for the person reviewing the letters. Hook them at the beginning, provide just enough information for them to know you’re qualified. and then make the ask.Once they find enough qualified applicants to interview, they get to stop going through resumes. Give them an excuse to stop!Use a format and font that stands out. Don’t go crazy and send it in on pink paper or some dumb thing, but don’t just Times New Roman it up and blend in with all the other dummies. Be able to pick yours out of a lineup from 20 feet away.Remember, you’re not asking for the job, you’re asking for the interview. The job comes later.Read this book. You need to understand human behavior, decision making, and how to influence these things. Cialdini’s books are essential to learning this. Don’t tell me that’s not your job. You won’t have a job unless you master this.The same ideas apply to a resume, although it is a bit more structured.Nobody looks at your resume if your cover letter is shit. That’s why you have a cover letter.But again, your resume is basically a piece of copy. And as with any copy, the headline is the most important part.Write a short ‘opening statement’ on your resume, briefly summarizing relevant experience for the job you’re applying for. Apply Pre-Suasion techniques to this. Keep it readable and informal.The job title the gave you is NOT what has to go on your resume.You aren’t testifying in court. Don’t blatantly lie, but don’t ‘incriminate’ or downplay yourself unnecessarily.“Junior temporary assistant XYZ processor” means nothing to anyone outside that company. “Marketing specialist” does. Give yourself the job title that you wish they had called it. (don’t lie, just re-brand)And don’t worry about all the standard shit. Explaining away gaps in employment, telling them why you left the jobs… If they care they’ll ask you in the interview.Play with the formatting to accentuate the things that make you look good.Highlight actions and accomplishments, not duties, tasks, and job descriptions.Again, this is a marketing document. Not a college paper. Nobody is going to grade it and tell you did things ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ There are no “rules” to follow.The only objective is to bypass their objections and get to the next step.“Is this person qualified for this job?” One glance at your resume should answer this.Instead most people tend to overwhelm and confuse with massive amounts of unnecessary, poorly formatted information.Stand out in a good way. Market yourself. You don’t have an edge if you’re playing the same game as everyone else.Play a game you can win.