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Whilst it can be a daunting task keeping up to speed with where jobs are advertised and when, it's often quite important to apply as soon after the job is posted as possible.

Why?

There's no better way to stretch your skills and knowledge, test out your profession-of-choice, complement your studies and network with industry specialists. To top it all off, you will be getting paid while you're at it! 

Thiess have advertised for their Vacation work opportunities for 2009/2010 and they offer real learning and real experience. Vacation employment enables students to develop a relationship with the employer that could lead to potential employment opportunities through the strong links their Graduate Development Program.

Abigroup Mining Services (AMS) is the recently established mining arm of Abigroup Limited, one of Australia's largest and most successful top tier construction contractors. Since our foundation in 1961, Abigroup has earned a reputation for reliably, delivering large scale and high quality projects on time and on budget.  This reputation has ensured a successful entry into the Australian mining contracting industry where they are currently building upon our existing mining businesses by securing new surface mining opportunities across Australia.

By accident, we stumbled across the Australian Government's Job Outlook information at: http://joboutlook.gov.au/pages/alpha.aspx.  The site is an outstanding wealth of information and is easy to navigate.  The site provides information on an exhaustive list of occupations and industries.  For each job type, the site provides: 

This is the time of the year when organisations start their recruitment programs for Vacation Work (for under-graduate university students) and Apprenticeships. 

We all know that one way to your next job is through who you know - your network of contacts. Recruiters will often receive a ‘floated' CV from a current employee with a quick note.  Typically, the note tells us not much - and without this context, your ‘inside' contact has essentially become a disadvantage.

Why?

Clough, established in 1919, is an Australian based engineering, construction and asset support contractor providing full project life cycle solutions primarily to the Upstream Oil and Gas sector.  The Group's turnkey services range from complex front-end engineering design, construction, installation and commissioning to long-term operations and maintenance.

Premier Oil is a leading  independent exploration and production company with gas and oil interests across the Asia Pacific region. We presently have a permanent role within our Vietnam operation.

Based in vibrant Ho Chi Minh City, this role will provide high quality Development Geological expertise within, and leadership to the existing subsurface group, for the appraisal, development and production phases of Premier Oil Vietnam's oil fields. You will work closely with development geophysicists, reservoir engineers and drillers in achieving business goals.

Modec is a general global contractor specialising in engineering, procurement, construction and installation of floating production systems including Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels, Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) vessels, Tension Leg Platforms (TLPs), Production Semi-Submersibles, Mobile Offshore Production Units (MOPUs) and other new technologies to enable them to meet the challenges of various types of gas production floaters. 

Could the positive signs this month be signalling a recovery? 

With major new projects coming on line or being slated, there's reason to be optimistic.  Despite the combined net profits of the world's 40 largest mining companies plummeting some US$9b in 2008, a recent report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) declares the mining boom is far from over. 

Some reasons to be optimistic.....

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