Cant tell what they think
I made the trip to Kununurra last year without success. I made sure that I had a DG and that the NVFR and MECIR were current. There seemed to be no consistancy in who was hired. Some guys that got a job had a bare CPL and others had everything including an instructor rating. It appeared to be solely based on if the CP liked you or not. You could be the most qualified person in the world but if you didn't seem to fit the profile of what they were after you were not going anywhere.
Plenty of really nice people were passed over and a few very questionable ones got a job!
People on this site always tell you to get up north cause you wont get a job if you dont. That advice seems only to be given by people who actually went north and scored a gig. I dont see anyone who didn't get hired telling all hopefulls to head north straight away.