Hospitality (cafes, bars & restaurants): kitchen hand (preparing food and/or washing dishes), waiter/waitress, barista (making coffee), cashier, food delivery, bar staff
Retail/Sales: Shop assistant, supermarket worker
Agriculture/Farming: Fruit picking and farm work (working holiday makers)
Construction: Labourer (on a building site)
Other: Cleaner, traffic control, factory worker
ELC's study timetables are flexible to fit your work opportunities. You can choose if you want to study during the daytime or in the evening to suit your work schedule. Live classes are delivered twice a week over 13.5hrs and you can then fit your self-study into your week according to your work shifts.
Apply for a tax-file number
Prepare a resume (and have your English checked by a teacher)
Search for and apply for jobs
Do well in a job interview in English
And learn about pay rates and working conditions
English for baristas
English for bar staff
English for kitchen hands
English for wait staff
Enquire about tax
Receive advice about a contract
Any other work-related questions
Many students find work in cafes, bars and restaurants in Australia. To gain the relevant skills or qualifications, visit our travel and work desk inside our student lounge to book one of the following courses:
Are you interested in a professional work placement during or after the end of you course? ELC has partnered with Australia’s leading provider of internships. Together, we offer endless opportunities for you apply the knowledge and skills you acquire in your course to a professional context. Internships are unpaid but prove to be a great stepping stone to your future career.
Being an au pair is a cultural experience in which in exchange for helping out with childcare or nanny duties and light housework you are welcomed as a member of the family, given full board accommodation in your own room and paid pocket money.
