Eric Chung

If you really want to do it straight away then i'd advise you to start applying straight away. For us it was a case of luck. We were in Townsville and applied for a few places close by, it didn't work out an ended up flying to Brisbane and then onto Mount Tamborine.

My girlfriend and I both finally have jobs after searching for a month. Initially we thought it would be easy getting work in a call centre since we went to an STA travel open night and they said that was what most back packers did and it was easily found. We found that to be the opposite. Despite the fact we both have over 3 years experience working in call centres and I personally have 7 years customer service experience not even the $20 per hour jobs were getting back to be. So after a few weeks of constant rejections we started applying for retail jobs which we both didn't really want to and were met with more rejections. Luckily for us we eventually managed to secure jobs in office sales so it is do able but with a lot of luck i guess.