The price of A Mining Job

摘要

As miners move to layoff workers and job prospects in the sector tighten, desperate jobseekers are offering thousands of dollars in cash to anyone who can help them get a mining job. One labourer Patrick Johnston, 28, has placed an online advertisement offer- -ing $5000 as well as his 1994 j Ford Falcon valued at $1500, in return for an entry-level mine job. Johnston, a university graduate who recently moved to Australia from Ireland said it is rumoured applicants need to know someone in the company to be even consid- ered for a position.