How to find job in Australia?

I know this is a burning topic. At the end of day, that's a goal. All IMGs do all exams to get a job in health field.

As I mentioned in my previous article, job is still there, but getting harder to find and get. It all depends on demand and supply. At present supply is increasing compare to demand which is stable. Although, it is getting harder, it is not impossible to find and get job. One of the mantra to get job is to be at right place at right time and see right person. One of my friend just recently got job after AMC 1 despite no local experience, but he tried too hard to stand out from crowd. Now that's the main point. You need to stand out from crowd (which is getting larger and more competitive) to be noticed from your prospective employer. So, what can you do to stand out from the crowd. I will explained few points for you to get out from crowd.

I am not going to talk about conventional method - like apply through seek.com and Department of Health website or register your name with database. I am pretty sure eveyone who are reading this know about this (happy to write about this if anyone wants to know). I am going to share my friend's experience and talking about unconventional method.

Application:

Don't be afraid to apply for a job. Apply to everything. Call them prior to application ask what's requirement of position. Try to address all requirements in your resume and if you cannot fill requirement try to explain what you can do to fulfil. Apply with standout killer resume (this is whole new topic and will try to cover in future article). Remember sending your resume is like selling yourself. You are selling your service. Call them once you have apply and follow up your application. You never know when your resume will be selected for interview. Call them/email them even if you are not successful for that particular position and offer that you are still available and happy to be contacted for future position.

I also want you to know that you also need to be careful about social networking site, so visit social networking site and make sure that things show up on your pages are suitable comments as a doctor.

Job Vacancies:

If you know about a job from Internet or from public access site, there is good chance that everyone else who are looking for that job will know the same thing. If you want to get job, you need to find job vacancy that only few people know about. More than half of the medical job vacancies are don't get advertise in public place. This is difficulty to find, but if you are in contact with medical administration or department secretary, there you have good chance of finding these kind of vacancy. It is also to ask or find doctor friend who is working in the system.

Show your genuine interest:

Now let me tell you about my friend. He was genuine and he showed up his skill and knowledge in genuine manner, so he got the job. He contacted ED secretary of a hospital and asked for job, obviously on first instance he was refused about the job. Then he contacted the secretary again for observership, again didn't get. Then he asked to attend teaching sessions, which after a while he was told that ED consultant/supervisor is happy for him to attend lectures. He showed genuine interest in learning about the system and clinical knowledge. Luckily after 2 months, ED department had vacancies. This vacancy was advertise in local newspaper (now how many people will read every page of newspapers from every state everyday?). Guess who knew about the vacancies first!! He already established his reputation in 2 months and after application guess who got the job!! So in short, he offered his service as try before you buy!!!

I can write about this topic for another couple of hours, but the main thing I want to tell you that try with conventional method about finding job, if you are not sucessful think about unconventional method. Stand out from crowd!!