New in 2026: visa up to 35 instead of 30
We get you ready from home, right through to your first day on the job over here. Three of us who’ve walked this road ourselves, helping you skip the pointless and, above all, expensive mistakes.
Free · about 30 minutes · you talk straight to Alessandro, Deniz or Marvin
The idea
It’s about finding out what you can do when nobody over here knows you. No boss who’s had you in the same box for ten years. No mate telling you in advance what you’re supposedly like and talking you out of it. One to three years where you finally decide for yourself what happens on Monday.
And then
You can google every one of these. For every one you’ll find three answers, and two of them won’t apply to you.
You can piece all of this together yourself and pay for it in time and money.
Alessandro took two years and a few hundred euros in lessons learnt the hard way.
Alessandro flew out in November 2024 with no plan. Deniz followed in the summer of 2026 with fourteen years on the tools behind him and was still badly prepared. Marvin tried Canada first, got knocked back more than once, and started again from scratch over here. All three of us paid for it, in money and in years. What you get from us in a few weeks cost us years.
Alessandro
No grand plan.
Just go.
In November 2024 Alessandro just went. Work and Holiday visa, one backpack, no plan. Before that: a business apprenticeship at Telekom and a management qualification on top. An entirely ordinary CV, in other words.
What came of it
“It wasn’t always easy. Some jobs were brutal, some days were damn long. But that was the point. I didn’t move here to work less. I moved here to live more, and to know again what I’m working for.”
@go_alessandroYou don’t move here to work less.
You move here to live more.
Alessandro
Deniz
Fourteen years on site.
Then Australia.
Bricklaying apprenticeship at 15. Then tradesman, leading hand, site foreman, trade school, crane ticket. A stint as a casino croupier in between, and his own Amazon business. Sitting still has never been his thing.
How he got here
Today, in Australia
Rigger and dogman.
Permanent with a civil construction company.
He rigs the loads to the crane, checks the gear, works out the load limits and tells the crane operator over the radio where it goes.
He had been told the starting rate was 35 to 45 dollars an hour. He signed for 60. The difference wasn’t the fourteen years on the tools. The difference was how he applied.
His first hundred applications got not a single reply. Then he did it differently, and he’s been getting offers without looking ever since. We go through exactly what he changed, once we have your CV in front of us.
@deniz.the.menace_
Marvin
Canada first.
Then all over again.
Trained in Germany as a precision and industrial mechanic, thirty. He left home five years ago. Three and a half years in Canada, eight months through Asia, then here. He landed with no job and not a single contact.
How he got here
Today, in Australia
FIFO in mining, with Chevron.
Two weeks on, two weeks off.
Up to that point he had to work it all out himself: which qualifications and tickets he actually needed, how to get his trade recognised, and what Australian recruiters really look at on a resume.
Early on he spent a lot of money on coaching and supposed shortcuts into the industry. Most of it was too general, some of it did nothing for his situation, and in the end he still had to work it out himself.
He won’t promise you a FIFO job. What he can tell you is which tickets are worth it for your trade and which you can skip, what your application should be cut back to, and where it keeps getting stuck. Exactly what he wishes someone had told him.
“I don’t want to sell you information you could find yourself given enough time. I want to save you time, money and pointless detours.”
@marvgrzybowThe difference
Deniz is a qualified bricklayer and worked as a site foreman. On his first site over here, nobody cared. What counted was a handful of tickets, as they’re called here. You can get them in a few days. If you know which ones.
Which ones apply to you depends on what you trained in and where you want to start. They’re almost never the same for two people. Deniz never got his trade recognised and calls it one of his most expensive mistakes. Marvin paid for tickets early on that did nothing for him.
Before you pay for your first course: Book your free call
How it works
Stage one
Half an hour on Google Meet. You tell us where you’re at: age, trade, what you’ve got saved, when you want to go. We look at your CV and tell you what counts over here and what doesn’t. By the end you’ll know whether your plan has legs. Costs nothing.
Stage two
Insurance, licence, getting your trade recognised, bank account, budget. In what order, with which documents, and what you can safely skip. Two of these almost everyone gets wrong, and both cost real money later. Alessandro paid for one of them himself.
Stage three
Tax file number, SIM, bank account, your Australian resume, somewhere to stay, the first applications. Most of it takes ten minutes once you know how. On one of them Deniz made a typo, and he’s still arguing with the ATO about it today.
Stage four
One person who knows your case, weekly calls, and a chat where you get through straight away when something’s on fire. Changing jobs, moving, second visa: we stay on it until it runs.
Stage one costs you nothing. Book your free call
What’s included
Before you fly
The first weeks
After that
The honest part
Australia isn’t cheap. But work pays differently here. Since July the casual minimum has been over $33 an hour, on construction sites 35 to 37. On a 3/1 roster Deniz clears close to €10,000 a month and puts about 9,000 of it away. That’s his case, not a promise for yours. But it shows what we’re talking about: not a year out, but a year that can pay for itself.
$60/hr
is what the contract Deniz signed says. He had been quoted 35 to 45 as a starting rate. That’s his case, not a promise for yours.
$33/hr
has been the casual minimum including loading since 1 July. On construction sites it’s 35 to 37.
€3,500–4,500
is what you should genuinely bring for the first few weeks.
The most honest objection
Everyone does. Alessandro too. He pieced it all together on his own for two years, with ChatGPT and blokes from the hostel, and came unstuck more than once. The problem isn’t that you can’t find answers. The problem is that you can’t tell which one applies to you until it’s too late.
What you get
What you’re missing
Sound like you? Book your free call
What it costs
Three ways in, depending on where you’re at. All paid once: no subscription, no instalments, nothing to pay later. We work out which one fits you in the free first call.
Package 1
with Alessandro
€500 one-off
For your first time out, when you need to land properly.
Package 2
with Marvin or Deniz
€400 one-off
For when you bring a trade and want to get into FIFO.
Both together
with all three of us
€750 one-off
€900 you save €150
The whole road, from home to your first FIFO application.
We take 5 to 10 people a month. Not a sales trick: all three of us work full time, we can’t manage more.
A real example
Henry had his first interview invitation 48 hours after starting the Expert package, for a driller offsider role in FIFO.
One case, not a promise for yours. We’ve got the invitation in writing.
What one mistake costs
Any one of these costs you more than the whole thing.
Common questions
Not automatically. There’s a recognition process, and it often decides whether you start here as a labourer or in your trade. The catch is the evidence: some of it you can only get while you’re still at home. Which parts you need depends on your trade. Deniz never got his recognised and calls it one of his most expensive mistakes. Marvin is a qualified industrial mechanic and went through the process before he got into FIFO.
Fewer than providers want to sell you, and often different ones than you think. White Card, Working at Heights, Confined Space, Forklift, EWP and a dozen more will get offered to you. You’ll need a handful of them. Which ones depends on what you trained in and where you want to start, and the order matters for how fast you get into work. Marvin paid for courses early on that he thought would open doors. Today he would do a few things differently. We go through your list before you pay for the first one.
It doesn’t have to be perfect. You need to get by on the job and, above all, understand safety instructions: toolbox meetings, pre-starts, radio. The words for tools and gear come on their own, because you hear them every day. What really wears you out at the start is the accent, and that usually settles faster than people expect. Understanding, asking and being able to say what’s going on counts for more here than clean grammar.
It varies a lot. Some get the grant after two weeks, others wait more than five. Home Affairs says itself that application numbers are unusually high at the moment, and publishes the current processing times there. One thing from experience: don’t book the flight until the written grant is in your inbox.
They’re two different visas with different requirements, and which one is open to you at all depends on your passport, not on your preference. It’s not the same for German and Austrian passports. What officially applies is on the Home Affairs site, and only a registered migration agent can advise you on it. What we can tell you is what the difference means for planning your work.
Usually not at the start. In Melbourne, Sydney or Perth you get by without one, and a car costs money constantly. As soon as you work regionally or head for a farm, that flips. Whether it’s worth it for you depends on where you start. There’s also one thing about your licence you’re better off sorting before you fly.
Better not. An Australian resume is built differently. Recruiters want to see within seconds which experience, skills and tickets match that exact role. What looks tidy back home often gets filtered out here before a person ever reads it. For getting into FIFO, this makes the biggest difference of the lot. We rebuild yours with you.
Both go wrong if you go about them wrong. From home, most applications get no reply. On the ground, you lose weeks if your documents aren’t right. Deniz had both: first a hundred applications with no response, then offers without looking. We build the same order with you.
We get this almost daily, and the honest answer is: it depends on what you can do. The cities differ in pay, in cost of living and, above all, in who is hiring right now. We decide it with you by the job market, not by what looks best on Instagram.
You don’t need a trade qualification for it, Deniz is clear on that. Everyone working in mining today had a first day at some point. Without Australian mining experience the way in is harder, but trade or technical experience is a real advantage. What you need are the right tickets and an application that actually gets read. And honestly: for a lot of people the mine isn’t the best route, only the best known one. We tell you on the call what would actually do more in your case, instead of letting you fire off a hundred applications into the void.
FIFO isn’t a holiday with a good wage attached. Twelve-hour shifts over days or weeks take it out of you, plus heat, dust, physical work and a few flying hours between you and everyone you know. In camp you usually get your own room, meals are provided, and there’s often a gym and laundry. It’s no resort, but it’s better than most people picture. The advantage is in the roster: Marvin works two weeks straight, then has two weeks completely off, most of which he spends in Thailand. You don’t work less, you just spread it out completely differently. Which is why the bigger question isn’t how to get into FIFO, but whether that rhythm suits you.
Since July the casual minimum has been over $33 an hour, on construction sites 35 to 37. There’s room above that: Deniz signed for $60 although he had been quoted 35 to 45. FIFO goes higher, but nobody starts on six figures. What’s possible for you depends on your trade, your tickets, the roster and the company. So we care less about getting you into FIFO somehow, and more about which role is realistic with your background and where it goes from there. Without the pay promises off social media.
The visa requires evidence of A$5,000, roughly €3,100. Realistically you want €3,500 to €4,500 for accommodation, tickets and a buffer in the first few weeks. How fast you earn that back comes down mostly to how long you wait for the first job. That’s exactly where we come in.
Yes, and that’s new. On a German passport the Working Holiday visa now runs to 35 rather than stopping at 30. What counts is your age on the day you lodge. If you have a birthday while it’s being processed, that doesn’t matter. The other way round it does: one day late and the application isn’t processed at all.
You don’t have to sit them out on some miserable farm. There are alternatives that pay properly and often include accommodation. When you do them affects how relaxed your second and third year are. We plan in where it pays off for you.
You don’t have to. The group and the fortnightly calls stay free, that isn’t changing. But what you get there are general answers for over two hundred people. What nobody there does: look at your CV, stop you before it gets expensive, and pick up the phone when something goes wrong over here. Anyone who wants to get it right from the start takes the support. Everyone else just stays in the group.
The next step
Half an hour on Google Meet, free. We look at your CV and tell you what counts over here, what you can skip and what your next step is. After that you’ll know whether your plan holds up. If you don’t need us, we’ll say so. We’ve got 5 to 10 spots a month, we can’t manage more alongside work.
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