Specified Work in Australia

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There are many different industries you can work in to complete your specified work requirement in order to qualify for your second year visa. While you shouldn't have a problem securing the required evidence from an employer, you should always check with any potential employer before beginning work that they are willing to sign you off.

Note: You should also remember that your seasonal work has to be completed in regional Australia.

Here is a full list of industries and jobs you can work in which qualify as specified work:

Plant and animal cultivation

Cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts
General maintenance crop work
Harvesting and/or packing fruit and vegetable crops
Immediate processing of animal products including shearing, butchery in an abattoir, packing and tanning

Note: Secondary processing of animal products, such as small goods processing and retail butchery is not eligible
Immediate processing of plant products
Maintaining animals for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase
Manufacturing dairy produce from raw material
Pruning and trimming vines and trees.

Felling trees in a plantation or forest

Planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felled
Transporting trees or parts of trees that were felled in a plantation or forest to the place where they are first to be milled or processed or from which they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed.

Fishing and pearling

Conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish and other aquatic species
Conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell.
Tree farming and felling

Mining

Coal mining
Construction material engineering
Exploration
Metal ore mining
Mining support services
Oil and gas extraction
Other non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying.

Construction

Building completion services
Building installation services
Building structure services
Heavy and civil engineering construction
Land development and site preparation services
Non-residential building construction
Residential building construction
Other construction services

We post jobs in these categories most week days to our twitter feed, and republish these on our Working Holiday Jobs page a little later.