About
About Aussie Resume
The short version:
- We build Australian-format resumes and cover letters — no photo, work rights up top, tickets where employers look first.
- Built for working holiday makers, international students and new arrivals — people applying here without a local work history.
- Free to build and preview. One-off payment for the PDF, no subscription, no auto-renewal.
- We are not a migration agency and we give no visa advice — check your own conditions with the Department of Home Affairs.
Aussie Resume is a small Australian tool that turns your work history into a resume and cover letter in the format local employers actually expect. It handles the conventions that decide whether you get read here — no photo, work rights stated plainly, tickets near the top, one or two pages.
Most resume tools are written for the American market and sold everywhere else unchanged. That is why they hand you a photo box, a two-column layout and a “career objective”, three things that quietly work against you in Australia. This one starts from the local rules instead, because those rules are the reason capable newcomers get filtered out before anyone reads their experience.
Where it started
The idea came from conversations in a car. Aussie Resume grew out of driving rideshare on the Gold Coast, and out of the hundreds of short conversations that come with the job — with backpackers three weeks into a working holiday and still waiting on a first callback, with international students trying to fit shifts around a timetable, with people whose English was perfectly fine in person but whose resume was still built for a country on the other side of the world.
The pattern repeated often enough to stop looking like bad luck. The person was employable. The document was not. And fixing the document was usually a twenty-minute job that nobody had thought to mention to them.
Aussie Resume is that twenty minutes, made repeatable.
Why it exists
Australian resume conventions are not obvious from outside the country, and they are almost never written down in one place. No photo. No date of birth. Work rights near the top. Tickets — RSA, White Card, food safety, first aid — where a manager sees them in the first few seconds. One or two pages, never five.
None of it is difficult once you know it. The difficulty is finding out in a hurry, often in a second or third language, while rent is due and savings are dropping.
That gap is the entire reason this site exists. The guides publish the rules openly, whether or not you ever pay for anything. The builder is for people who would rather answer a few plain questions than assemble the page themselves.
Who it is for
Aussie Resume is built for people applying for work in Australia who did not grow up with its hiring conventions. In practice that is three groups.
- Working holiday makers on a 417 or 462 visa, chasing casual work in hospitality, farms, warehouses and retail, and usually needing something this week rather than next month.
- International students on a student visa, fitting part-time work around a timetable and competing for the same shifts without a local work history behind them.
- New arrivals building a first Australian job out of experience earned somewhere else — often substantial experience that simply reads wrong on the page here.
If you have an established Australian career and a recruiter who already knows your name, this is probably not the tool you need.
What we do not do
Aussie Resume is not a migration agency, a recruiter or a legal service, and the edges matter more than the promises.
We do not give visa advice. The guides describe how to state your work rights honestly on a resume, and they point you to the Department of Home Affairs for what your conditions actually are, because those rules change and only your own visa grant is authoritative for you. We never invent a visa status, an hours limit or a qualification you do not hold.
We do not place you in a job, contact employers on your behalf, or promise interviews. No resume service can honestly promise an outcome, and one that does is telling you something it cannot know.
What we do is narrower and more dependable: produce a document that follows the local conventions, so that the format is never the reason you were passed over.
How it works
Aussie Resume is a one-off purchase rather than a subscription. You build the whole thing and see about half of it on screen for free, and you pay only if you want the finished PDF.
There is no automatic renewal, no trial that turns into a monthly charge, and no card details held by this site — payments are processed by Stripe. What the preview does show is watermarked rather than blurred out, so you can read the real words your resume is made of before you decide anything.
The resume checker is a separate one-off purchase of A$4.99. It scores a resume you already have against the same local conventions, lists every problem it finds and how to fix each one, and gives you the corrected resume rewritten in Australian format. The guides stay free to read permanently.
The site has been live and taking payments since June 2026, and the A$12 and A$19 builder prices have not changed since.
Questions
Support requests go through the form on this site, and a real person answers them.