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February 6, 2012 – Good news for overseas workers interested to work in Australia and apply for working visa Australia!
The Australian government just recently admitted a shortfall of 92,000 workers by 2015.
According to federal Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson, due to Australia’s hospitality and tourism industry being so short-staffed, the Australian government is now discussing importing 36,000 cooks, waiters, hotel managers, bartenders, and other skilled workers under a new work visa Australia agreement to fill vacancies; with another 56,000 needed by 2015, according to Immigration Minister Chris Bowen.
The vacancies are caused by a number of factors; chief amongst which is the reluctance of Australians to do “menial” jobs, as well as Australians moving from the hospitality industry into higher paying mining and resources jobs.
Experts say that due to the fact that mining jobs are high-paying, these have lured young Australian workers from traditional fields such as retail and hospitality, while others would rather go on the dole than do certain jobs themselves. However, with the tourism industry responsible for $35 billion worth of annual income to Australia, the government needs to act quickly to address the situation, particularly in regional areas.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen stated that a template labor agreement will be developed to help to ease labor and skills pressures by improving the ability of the tourism and hospitality industry to attract and retain labor in some of the occupations identified by the industry as being in critical shortage.
Under a new federal plan, tourism and hospitality employers would be allowed to bring in workers on a two to three year Australian work visa similar to the 457 Australia working visa program widely used in the mining sector. This agreement would cover waiters, chefs, bar attendants, hotel managers, and other occupations which are hard to fill locally and are identified by the industry as being in critical shortage, or may be ineligible under other Australia skilled visa migration programs.
Mr. Bowen further said that Australian employers would need to demonstrate they are doing their best to employ and train domestic workers and paying market rates in order to participate in the new agreement. Once approved to participate, employers would now be able to nominate workers for temporary skilled subclass 457 Australian working visa using the template, enabling workers to be granted Australian skilled visa where they meet the requirements.
It has been noted that there is a black market of illegal workers that extend across businesses including restaurants and general laboring.
While hospitality is only one of a number of areas experiencing a lack of Australian workers struggling to fill vacancies, some sectors are being shunned altogether.
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very interesting
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very interesting
Not for me. Hehehe. :) ;)
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Not for me. Hehehe. :) ;)
and why did you posted it? what for?
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and why did you posted it? what for?
Surely many there will be. But for me, rather go back home na. ;) Problema lang, naai mga huramentado diha. Martilyuhon ko! Hehehe. :) ;)
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Australia’s hospitality and tourism industry is so short staffed the government needs to import 36,000 cooks, waiters and bartenders immediately
It is also looking for another 56,000 workers by 2015, according to Immigration Minister Chris Bowen. Under a new federal plan, tourism and hospitality employers would be able to bring in workers on a two to three year visa similar to the 457 visa program widely used in the mining sector. The vacancies are caused by a number of factors; chief amongst which is the reluctance of Australians to do “menial”jobs.
Experts say high-paying mining jobs are luring young Australian workers from traditional fields such as retail and hospitality, while others would rather go on the dole than muck in and do certain jobs themselves.
“I hate to say it but there seems to be a sense of entitlement among younger Australians,” Tourism Accommodation Australia boss Rodger Powell said.
“They believe jobs in the service industry are too menial or too low paid and they have been brought up to believe they are destined for something better instead of starting from the bottom and working their way up as generations did before them.” :) ;)
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by: GREG CALLAGHAN From: The Australian January 21, 2012 12:00AM
FORGET 2012 being the year of the dragon. It may well be the year of the farmer.
Food prices are skyrocketing across the world. In the past, surges in world grain prices largely stemmed from drought or floods; now they're much more likely to be the result of demand outstripping supply, spurred by unbridled population growth in Asia, the boom in the middle classes in China and India, and prime arable land being devoured by urbanisation. The depletion of China's main aquifers has led to a decrease in grain production, turning China into a net importer, while India - which depends on ground water for 70 per cent of its irrigation needs - is facing a potential disaster in the next 20 years with collapsing water tables.
The picture isn't any prettier in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia will rely on imports of wheat by 2016 after the government called an end to irrigated wheat as it fights to save its ancient fossil aquifers. Egypt, once the bread- basket of the Roman Empire, is now the world's largest importer of wheat. There were food riots in Algeria last year, and most of the Horn of Africa was in famine.
...So what does this mean for Australia - a nation that already exports two-thirds of its food supply - in the coming decades? Export earnings from agriculture are expected to reach a record high in 2011-12 - a taste, no doubt, of things to come.
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Job Title
The first thing many job seekers see is the “Job Title”. If it is not attractive to them or too generic, they will not click on it to see the details.
This is also the title of the web page that your job will be listed on our site and will influence the way Google and other search engines rank your job compared to other similar jobs.
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Rather than “Software Engineer ‘s wanted”
How about - “Google are hiring Software Engineers in Sydney, Australia”
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Job Location
You will get more responses by advertising your jobs as located in the nearest big city or region, rather than by suburb.
“Dental Technician – London (Ealing)” will give you better results than “Dental Technician – Ealing”
Tweaking an existing job advertisement.
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By Louisa Veidelis
With the mining and resources industries leading the charge in Australia’s economic recovery, the shortage of workers in these areas is set to worsen. If demand stays strong in this booming sector, 86 000 more new workers will be needed in the field over the next decade, according to a report by the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA).
While there are currently opportunities to work at all stages of minerals and mining, from entry-level to professorial and managerial roles, the biggest shortages by 2020 will be for tradespeople and semi-skilled operators, according to the report.
Mining in Australia
Australia’s resource-rich land means that we extract and process large quantities of iron ore, nickel, bauxite, copper, gold, silver, uranium, diamonds, opal, zinc and coal. The minerals industry makes up 8.9 per cent of Australia's GDP and 50 per cent of Australia's total exports.
Iron ore and coal are forecast to be areas with significant shortages.
Jobs in mining
There is a wide range of jobs in mining to suit all levels of skill, education and experience.
Semi-skilled jobs (e.g. driller’s assistant, trainee operator, labourer) require a good work ethic and sometimes an entry-level TAFE qualification.
Skilled jobs (e.g. mobile plant operator/driver, underground or opencut miner, driller) require a TAFE-recognised skill set or qualification.
Trades (e.g. electrician, mechanic, maintenance, welder) require a VET/TAFE qualification or apprenticeship.
Technical/supervisor jobs (e.g. mine planner, safety and health officer, geoscience technician, environmental officer) require a qualification from TAFE or university and some on-the-job training.
Professional/managerial jobs (e.g. various branches of engineering, environmental scientists, geoscientists) require a university degree and depending on the role, extensive experience in the industry.
Where the jobs are
There is mining activity in all states and territories but most current job opportunities are in Western Australia and Queensland. According to the report by the Minerals Council of Australia, almost 60 per cent of new workers by 2020 will be needed in Western Australia.
Working conditions
Many miners work rosters of two weeks on, two weeks off, flying to and from the mine site each fortnight.
Mining and resources workers are well paid. Average pay in this industry has risen 60 per cent since 2004 and is higher than the average pay in financial services.
Women in mining
There are ample opportunities for women to work in mining and resources. Women make up around 10 per cent of the mining workforce in Australia and are recognised by employers as an untapped resource.
The working and leadership style of women is in valued on worksites in this industry. Interestingly, female machine operators are said to have lower injury rates and be more steady, causing less wear and tear on the machines.
Mining companies are trying to attract more women and many have redressed pay inequalities and introduced more family-friendly policies.
How to get started
Mining and resources employers look for workers who have a good work ethic and sometimes a TAFE or university qualification.
If you’re interested in working in a skilled or operator job, or a trade, you may need a TAFE Certificate III or higher, a heavy vehicle licence and Mining and Resource Contractors Safety Training Association (MARCSTA) accreditation. It would also be an advantage to have a recent first aid certificate and a medical examination before applying.
If you’re at university you might consider ‘vac work’ or vacation work. This involves paid short-term employment on work sites and the opportunity to network with employers.
Make sure your resume is well written and formatted, and includes your skills, qualifications and relevant experience. Your cover letter (written specifically for each job you apply for) should give specific examples that demonstrate your skills and abilities. Both documents should be proofed by a friend before you start applying for jobs.
You can see a sample dump truck driver resume and cover letter on our site.
Finally, apply for jobs, apprenticeships and traineeships online – you can find employment opportunities on job boards like Seek.com or on the websites of mining or contractor companies. :) ;)
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Australian Mining 1 May, 2012 Andrew Duffy
Mining companies are lowering their recruitment standards in order to find desperately needed workers, according to The Treasury.
In an economic round-up Treasury said the skills shortage was hurting businesses and forcing miners to make changes to how they find staff.
"An excess of demand for skilled employees has also seen firms in the mining and related construction sectors becoming less selective in recruitment but spending more on training," it said.
The report said companies were also continuing strong investment in delivering fly-in fly-out workers, particularly from the eastern states to Western Australia.
It said while recruitment by mining companies was still booming other sectors had a "more subdued outlook" in response to global economic uncertainty.
Treasury said there was a high turnover of skilled workers in the mining industry and workers were able to "move between firms with ease".
It said businesses had reported that with such strong competition workers were also putting a higher value on conditions and work quality.
According to the economic round-up the resources sector is continuing to draw labour from other sectors, and non-mining firms in WA and Queensland are finding it harder to find staff than similar firms in other states.
Last week Rio Tinto said it was launching one of Australia's largest recruitment drives to fill 6,000 workers in four months.
The Government has called on the company to focus on Australian workers before looking overseas to fill positions.
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Are you a woman wanting to work in the lucrative mining industry but don't think you'll get a look in because of the mining industry's male-dominated history? Don't worry. There has never been a better time for women to enter the mining industry as the mine bosses are starting to realise the advantages of employing women in an industry where there needs to be great attention to detail and a huge amount of responsibility.
Mining companies are employing women because:
They tend to have great safety records.
Their work ethics are excellent.
The number of skilled women is very high.
Women are gentle on the mining equipment.
They tend to keep their equipment clean.
Whether you're longing for adventure in a distant location or you'd rather stay close to home, there are positions open for women all over Australia, and throughout the world. Roles in remote locations generally require travel to and from the site via plane, with shifts lasting a two or three weeks at a time. Holiday time between shifts is generous, and workers are flown back to their home if they are employed in a FIFO position, if they so desire. Special accommodations can even be made for couples if they'd like the same rostered time off.
Thee are particular positions with women that seem to be popular. These often include dump truck driving, engineering, geology, mobile plant operators, administration, drilling and environmental rehabilitation. There may be other positions you would be suitable if you're a woman looking for a job in the mines, and we can help you decide which roles would be suited to your experience and preferences.
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James Frost From: The Australian May 15, 2012 12:00AM
THE Reserve Bank says the mining sector could soon account for every second job created in Australia, as the economy undergoes a series of major structural adjustments.
As RBA deputy governor Philip Lowe yesterday outlined the many challenges that uneven economic growth presents, he returned again and again to the mining industry and the circumstances of our once-in-a-century investment boom.
"Indeed, it would not be surprising if, over the next few years, growth in mining-related employment, broadly defined, was as high as one-half of the total jobs growth in the Australian workforce," Dr Lowe said at the ADC Future Summit in Melbourne.
The central bank's acknowledgment of the role of mining companies follows last week's better-than-expected job figures and a federal budget that was poorly received by business for failing to deliver a cut to the company tax rate.
It came as an executive of Moody's Investors Service, Debra Roane, warned state governments they would need to rein in spending to protect their credit ratings.
As the Australian dollar momentarily dipped below parity for the first time since last December and NAB currency strategists forecast a a drift to US98c by September, the message from the RBA was that currency-exposed businesses should enjoy the respite while they could.
"It's highly likely that Australia will continue to have quite a high exchange rate for years to come," Dr Lowe said.
But despite the difficulties a strong dollar presents for industries competing internationally, Mr Lowe said there were many reasons for Australians to be optimistic. "It is important that we do not lose sight of the considerable benefits to Australia from the lift in the prices of our key exports and the unprecedented level of investment taking place" he said.
The mining sector's surge in demand for workers would not be limited to those in the frontline -- the extracting and processing of our natural resources -- but would extend to accounting, construction, legal services, project management and human resources, he said.
Dr Lowe said that the mining sector accounted for between 16 per cent and 17 per cent of GDP; however, he acknowledged that on some estimates the contribution rose as high as 20 per cent.
Jobs growth of the non-mining parts of the economy, however, is expected to be below trend, according to Dr Lowe, with sectors such as manufacturing and housing construction to remain under pressure.
Dr Lowe said the RBA -- which cut the cash rate by 50 basis points at this month's meeting -- had been caught off guard by the extent to which various sectors outperformed and underperformed.
"While the Reserve Bank had long expected a very large lift in investment in the resources sector in 2011 -- and indeed this occurred -- the increase was even larger than had been forecast," he said.
"The biggest surprise was probably in terms of home building. We had expected dwelling approvals to pick up gradually over 2011 but this pick-up did not eventuate."
Inflation had also undershot the central bank's expectations considerably, as mining-related investments placed less pressure on domestic capacity constraints than projections suggested.
"This composition of demand growth with its heavy weight on mining-related investment, which tends to be very import intensive, has contributed to very strong growth in aggregate imports," he said. "There has been less pressure on domestic capacity than earlier expected."
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Where are the mining industry jobs in Australia?
Recently the Australian mining industry has experienced a high demand for skilled employees. It is estimated that in the next 12 years a further 86,000 people will be needed. Of these it is thought that 30% of these employees will be tradesmen, 30% will be skilled operators and 10% will be professionals.
Traditionally most mining jobs in Australia have been in Western Australia and Queensland, but now there are many mining related jobs available in most of the other Australian States and the Northern Territory.
What sort of people can work in the Australian mining industry?
Specific job skills can vary from site to site, however Australian mining companies generally want people who:
Are safety conscious
Have a positive attitude
Are in good physical and mental health
Want to work in remote locations;
What is the mining industry employment minimum age?
You must be over 16 years old and companies really prefer you to have finished Year 12 or an equivalent vocational or university course.
(The educ system here is 6 yrs grade school and 6 yrs hi-sch. Finishing Year 12 means hi-sch grad. I shouldn't be posting this. Kai mawad-an kog prospects. Ang akong gipangita is 16-yr-old Pinay ;))
How much can I earn in the Australian mining industry?
Mining industry salaries can range from $40,000 to $260,000+ AUD but it depends on your experience and qualifications.
What qualifications do I require for a skilled, trade or operator job?
TAFE accredited Certificates – level III or higher in a relevant area
Heavy vehicle (HR) licence and experience in operating heavy machinery
The following certificates are also good to have
first aid certificate and a pre-employment medical examination
Mining and Resource Contractors Safety Training Association (MARCSTA) accreditation
Mining Job - Heavy Vehicle Mechanic
Heavy vehicle and other types of engine repair, maintenance and testing. For the role of heavy vehicle mechanic you may be asked to complete the following tasks.
Repair and maintain diesel and petrol/gas vehicles. These types of vehicles may include trucks, buses, bulldozers etc. and also generators, pumps and compressors.
Diagnose mechanical and electrical faults.
Mining Job - Plant Mechanic
Plant mechanics may be asked to:
Maintain and repair all on-site machinery
Carry out vehicle services
Money
Service Crew underground: $65,000 to $130,000
Heavy Duty Fitter/Diesel Mechanic: $70,000 to $130,000
Different Mining Job Roles
Mining Job - Electrician
Within the mining sector electricians are employed to install and maintain electrical systems such as setting up and maintaining power supplies to the mining plant and accommodation units.
They are also often asked to:
Install electrical wiring and circuits for extensions to work sites.
Set up high voltage switching.
Carry out maintenance on a variety of equipment.
Install cables and connect switches and fittings.
Test electrical circuits.
Money
Typical average salaries are as follows
Electrician – General Maintenance: $75,000 to $130,000+
Auto Electrician on the surface – $80,000 to $135,000+
Auto Electrician underground - $80,000 to $140,000+
Leading Hand: $85,000 to $135,000+
Mining Job - Miner
Miners operate the equipment to excavate and transport the ore, coal and rock at underground or open-cut mines.
Examples of specialist mining roles are airleg miners, jumbo and longhole drill operators, continuous mining machine operators, longwall miner operators and mechanical bogger operators.
Money
Bogger Operator: $80,000 to $130,000
Jumbo Operator: $85,000 to $180,000
Service Crew: $65,000 to $130,000
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Lyndon Schneiders From: The Australian May 19, 2012 12:00AM
THIS week the government of Western Australia dispatched about 200 police officers to the sleepy tourist town of Broome to do the dirty work for several of the world's largest oil and gas companies.
This mini army has been assembled on the doorstep of the Kimberley wilderness for one purpose -- to suppress the widespread opposition of the Broome community to the construction of the proposed $40 billion James Price Point industrial precinct.
In a startling admission, WA police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan confirmed earlier this week that the decision to drag police off their beats across the state and send them to Broome would cost taxpayers $100,000 a day, for an undisclosed period and with no cost to the companies involved in the project. The final bill will likely be several million dollars.
All this to move away and silence a dogged and growing band of locals who have stood in the way of the plans of a consortium of the world's biggest companies, including Shell, Chevron, Woodside, BP and BHP Billiton, to build this massive gas plant in a beautiful and sensitive part of the remote Dampier Peninsula.
...For the past four years, community opposition in Broome has grown steadily, uniting the community in a way that has led to Premier Colin Barnett taking this extreme action. Black and white, the overwhelming majority of Broome people have said "no".
Opinion polling reported in The Australian this week shows 79 per cent of Broome residents oppose the development. Thousands have attended rallies, public meetings and community events over the past year.
At the most recent council elections, two high-profile anti-gas candidates were elected, and one, Anne Polina, is now deputy mayor. On every street corner, there are signs of opposition to the gas plant.
So is this the new Australia, produced by the longest mining boom in our history? One in which the views of residents and traditional owners are meaningless and where the state provides armies of foot soldiers, free of charge, to the big end of town? All this while the companies behind the project remain stony silent about actions taken in their name to divide and destroy Broome.
Not a word when last year Aboriginal women and their grandchildren were dragged away by tactical response police to allow the safe passage of Woodside's contractors down the access road to James Price Point.
Not a word when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of WA ruled as invalid a clumsy attempt by the Barnett government to compulsorily seize the land for the gas hub from traditional owners.
Not a word when 7000 people gathered on the famous Cable Beach to say no to the gas hub.
And now not a word as Broome is converted into a war zone. All in their name, for their project, for their bottom line.
Their silence makes a mockery of their fine statements, their policies and their expensive advertising campaigns that pronounce their credentials as fine corporate citizens who care about communities.
The prime mover of this consortium, Woodside, has a "Sustainable Communities Policy" which states that as a company it "wishes to establish long-term relationships based on trust and respect that deliver mutual benefit". It says it will achieve this by "listening to the community and delivering on its commitments" and it will contribute "to the building of thriving communities".
They must be joking. The Broome community and a growing movement of people across Australia have said no, and have said it again and again.
How does Woodside plan to establish long-term relationships and trust and respect while an army of police is sent in to smash local opposition on its behalf, and when, precisely, will it start listening to the community that does not want this development?
Meanwhile, over at the Chevron Australia website, more fine words and sentiments about its deep commitment to the local community. Here managing director Roy Krzywosinski tells us that, "at Chevron Australia, we think like a community member because we are a community member" and "our focus is on building productive, collaborative, trusting and beneficial relationships".
Really? Well, as a member of the "community", perhaps Ray could let Premier Barnett know that he's not that keen on having his neighbours thrown in prison for standing in the way of bulldozers, or he could object when traditional owners are told they can either accept a deal to have the development forced on them or have their land compulsorily seized. Because that is what community means: standing up for one another, caring for one another.
Premier Barnett and his head cheerleader in the federal government, Martin Ferguson, long ago gave up looking like credible representatives of the public interest, and the latest outrage by the WA government is hardly a surprise, given their past form.
In this environment, only the corporations can make sanity prevail and end this conflict.
It is time Woodside and friends re-read their policies and statements. It is time they listened to Broome. It is time that they said no to Barnett and Ferguson, and it is time they announced they will pipe the gas south and leave Broome, its people and its beautiful environment alone.
Lyndon Schneiders is national director of The Wilderness Society.
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Lyndon Schneiders From: The Australian May 19, 2012 12:00AM
THIS week the government of Western Australia dispatched about 200 police officers to the sleepy tourist town of Broome to do the dirty work for several of the world's largest oil and gas companies.
So is this the new Australia, produced by the longest mining boom in our history? One in which the views of residents and traditional owners are meaningless and where the state provides armies of foot soldiers, free of charge, to the big end of town? All this while the companies behind the project remain stony silent about actions taken in their name to divide and destroy Broome.
Before, Las Vegas was nothing but a stopover for truckies in the middle of the desert. Today, it’s a paradise for gamblers.
Broome will be like Las Vegas. Thirty years ago, it was almost like a ghost town. Believe the nude beach was set up mainly to attract tourists. Otherwise, nobody will go there. With this mining boom, only a matter of time, it will become a bustling metropolis of casinos.
Oh, yes, there’ll be heaps of lovely young Pinay miners going there during their roster off for r&r (relaxation and recreation) which includes, of course, gambling. With plenty of money, why not? ??? ;)
Hmmmm! Think I should settle there instead of go home. Hehehe. :) ;)
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“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” :) ;)
- John Hope Franklin
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"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."
- Samuel Johnson
:) ;)
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Australian Mining 18 May, 2012 Andrew Duffy
New research says expansions in the resources industry mean Queensland will need an extra 30,000 mining workers over the next five years.
According to research firm Kinetic Group's annual Heartbeat Report, new and expanding projects in Queensland are predicted to double the state's mining workforce over the coming decade.
"When these growth rates are applied to Queensland's Office of Economic and Statistical Research baseline of 55,500 mining employees this equates to 14,500 new staff by 2014," it said.
"Longer term forecasts indicate the need for an additional 30,000 employees required in Queensland over the next five years."
Kinetic said employment demand, including operating and construction staff, was expected to reach its peak in 2014 and training graduates, apprentices, trainees, and cadets was expected to rise 21 per cent in two years.
The report said more than 13,000 of the new jobs would be unskilled operator jobs, but new workers were also hurting companies by quickly leaving the industry.
"18.4 per cent of employees who separated in 2010-11 were new recruits that commenced work in the previous 12 months," it said.
The report also said the mining industry was ageing fast, and a lot of new entrants were older than the current workforce.
It said research indicated less than 10 per cent of the industry was under 25 years of age, and almost one third of new recruits were 50 or older.
Earlier this year Kinetic Group CEO Derek Hunter told Australian Mining many unskilled applicants weren't serious about working in mining after facing the reality of the cost of training and the tough work conditions.
"A lot of people are excited about getting a job in mining, but whether they are suitable for it is a major question," he said.
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miner...............might still be a good profession. ;) :) 8)
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miner...............might still be a good profession. ;) :) 8)
Monetary wise, it’s always been. In fact, it’s even better nowadays. More and more girls are joining the workforce. Blokes have less and less chances to get contracted with marriage measles. Oh, how I wish I could wind back my clock to half my age now!
By the way, where have you been? Perhaps a better question is what sort of mischief have you been up to? :) ;)
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miner...............might still be a good profession. ;) :) 8)
What's in your mind, mate? ??? Hehehe. :) ;)
By David and Libby Koch From: News Limited newspapers March 05, 2012 12:00AM
HIGH-paying jobs are out there for the taking. They're just not where they used to be.
Your biggest investment is your career.
And, just like your investments, you need to understand how the jobs cycle is changing to take advantage of where the big money is being earned.
Remember when parents used to encourage their kids into the bank or a respectable white-collar middle management position? Not any more.
Today it's all about being open-minded and developing skills to suit the boom industries of mining, online, telecommunications and science.
If you're after a local job and not prepared to broaden career options or skills, then you will more than likely miss out.
The latest employment and wages data provides a terrific career blueprint:
The average wage is $69,170 a year but in mining it's $113,636. At the other end of the scale, the lowest annual wage is accommodation and food at $49,785, along with retail jobs at $50,898.
Over the past year the biggest pay rises were jobs in wholesale trade, construction and mining. But wages dropped for administration, financial and real estate jobs.
Finance jobs have a relatively high average wage, but numbers are being shed and salaries are falling.
On a state-by-state basis, the ACT pays the highest wages (public service salaries are pretty good), followed by Western Australia and the Northern Territory because of their mining booms.
Don't be put off by thinking you've had no experience or skills for these boom industries. Many of the jobs are unskilled and there is a boom in associated industries which support, say, mining.
For example, while the tourism and accommodation industries are generally being hurt by the high Australian dollar, hotels and cafes are booming in mining regions as they cater for the influx of workers.
We know of a former real estate agent retrenched in the property downturn who took an unskilled job in mining for $120,000 a year. He works 12-hour shifts, two weeks on, two weeks off, and all accommodation and food costs are covered. The two-week shift starts when he leaves the airport and finishes when he flies back in.
Yes, he's away from home for two weeks at a time but he's saving a bundle from an "unskilled" job.
Mobility is the key. Being prepared to travel to find a better job is essential in today's labour market.
While there's a lot of talk about mining opportunities, telecommunications and online sales and marketing jobs are also surging.
If you can't find your ideal position at the moment, stay in your current job while continuing to look around.
The best jobs can often be in the remote areas such as the fly-in-fly-out mining jobs or other similar careers.
Don't underestimate the importance of a resume. It can win or lose a job.
A resume should outline why you're the best person for the job. Include all relevant experience, qualifications, skills and emphasise big career achievements. Change the resume for different job applications to make sure you're meeting each of the advertised criteria.
The interview is vital, so make sure you're prepared.
Think about any qualifications, skills and positive qualities that would set you apart from other people applying for the job. Bring them into your answers or bluntly tell your interviewer "I think you should hire me because ... " . Don't be shy. Whoever does the best job marketing themselves will win the job.
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gotta go!enjoy the rest of the day everyone..!!God bless us all...till next time..:)
Thought you might be interested in this.
Australian Mining 18 May, 2012 Andrew Duffy
New research says expansions in the resources industry mean Queensland will need an extra 30,000 mining workers over the next five years.
According to research firm Kinetic Group's annual Heartbeat Report, new and expanding projects in Queensland are predicted to double the state's mining workforce over the coming decade.
"When these growth rates are applied to Queensland's Office of Economic and Statistical Research baseline of 55,500 mining employees this equates to 14,500 new staff by 2014," it said.
"Longer term forecasts indicate the need for an additional 30,000 employees required in Queensland over the next five years."
Kinetic said employment demand, including operating and construction staff, was expected to reach its peak in 2014 and training graduates, apprentices, trainees, and cadets was expected to rise 21 per cent in two years.
The report said more than 13,000 of the new jobs would be unskilled operator jobs, but new workers were also hurting companies by quickly leaving the industry.
"18.4 per cent of employees who separated in 2010-11 were new recruits that commenced work in the previous 12 months," it said.
The report also said the mining industry was ageing fast, and a lot of new entrants were older than the current workforce.
It said research indicated less than 10 per cent of the industry was under 25 years of age, and almost one third of new recruits were 50 or older.
Earlier this year Kinetic Group CEO Derek Hunter told Australian Mining many unskilled applicants weren't serious about working in mining after facing the reality of the cost of training and the tough work conditions.
"A lot of people are excited about getting a job in mining, but whether they are suitable for it is a major question," he said.
By Michelle Hele From: The Courier-Mail May 22, 2012 12:00AM
THE cost of buying or renting in Gladstone is predicted to become even more expensive with at least 6000 fly in, fly out workers tipped to be operating out of the city by midway through next year.
The latest Gladstone Region Housing Quarterly Report has revealed forecasts of 6400 fly in, fly out workers by midway through 2014. There are currently about 2300.
Using figures from the Office of Economic and Statistical Research, the report said the growing workforce in Gladstone was already affecting housing supply, affordability and demand.
Rents are still going up with the median rent for a four-bedroom home $650 a week during the first quarter of 2012 compared with the Queensland average of $410 a week.
Median house prices also exceeded the Queensland average and land prices jumped by 7.2 per cent in the year to June 2011 above the Queensland median of $187,000 for the first time.
The report found development activity had been strong as a result of demand for accommodation with 773 formed lots registered and available for sale as at December 2011 and a further 1846 lots in the pipeline.
"Residential dwelling approvals for the year to December 2011 were the highest on record for Gladstone Region, with 956 approvals comprising 786 houses and 170 other dwelling types," it said.
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Although, must say that should you land a job in that massive gas plant construction in Broome, so much the better. Properties are still very2X cheap. You’ll be catching two birds with one stone. Building your career both as an engr and as an entrepreneur. Hmmmm! Something tells me that the golden days here will soon be over. Although the youngbloods here are enjoying the fiesta, their hearts and minds are in Broome. Soon, they’ll be celebrating the fiesta there. Aside from lechon and adobong manok, there’ll be steaks and lobsters. And the really2X giant mud crabs. Saw one being held up by a bloke with both hands. Similar to the ones in Central America. Like Philippines, Broome has a tropical climate.
Mamingao na kaau ang Ilihan. Or, for that matter, Bohol. Malungkot na si RG and whoever’s left behind. They’ll be reminiscing the sweet moments past. How delightful has been the friendship boon! Can’t help it! Like skipper, gotta accept the harsh realities of life. Money is more important. Hehehe.
I can envisage a talented girl like Zulacs being involved in the massive gas plant construction there. Unlike those working in the mines, no need to be travelling back and forth every fortnight. Plenty of time for correspondence courses online to fully qualify her profession. Perhaps, even go further. Eventually, becoming a ceo of that plant.
Buying a large vacant land for investment. Easy to secure a 25-yr home loan from the bank. Temporarily having a makeshift shelter for home. Eventually, a skyscraper designed by her. Annual fiestas will be held there.
Goodbye Bohol! Goodbye Philippines. Filipinas kong mahal.
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AAP May 25, 2012 3:45PM
THE federal government has unveiled an historic agreement with mining magnate Gina Rinehart to import overseas workers to fill jobs in her iron ore project in Western Australia.
The enterprise migration agreement (EMA) will be first used at the mining magnate's $6.5 billion Roy Hill project, allowing Hancock Prospecting to bring in 1700 migrant workers on a temporary basis.
Union leaders today lashed out at the plan saying it is a kick in the guts for Australian employees.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen announced today the government program to allow enterprise migration agreements (EMA) would help mining companies find enough workers for their developments.
But union leaders, who were attending a government manufacturing taskforce meeting in Canberra, were furious.
Australian Council of Trade Unions leader Dave Oliver said it was "reprehensible" and Australian workers were being overlooked.
"We are calling on the prime minister to immediately intervene to ensure before any workers are being brought in under the 457 visa program that there has been appropriate measures in place to ensure that the local market has been tested," he told reporters.
Australian Workers' Union head Paul Howes said it beggared belief that the announcement was made in the wake of recent jobs losses at Qantas and the Norsk Hydro aluminium smelter in NSW.
"On Friday we come to Canberra to meet with the prime minister, the industry minister and the CEOs of the major manufacturing industries to address the 130,000 jobs that have been lost out of manufacturing since 2008," a clearly angry Mr Howes told reporters.
"And Chris Bowen is announcing that Gina Rinehart gets an early Christmas present.
"I thought we were actually attacking these guys at the moment. Whose side are we on?"
Mr Howes said it was a big win for Ms Rinehart, and the benefits would also be enjoyed by her fellow mining billionaires Clive Palmer and Andrew Forrest.
"It's a massive kick in the guts to those 130,000 workers in the manufacturing industry who have lost their jobs," he said.
It's "sheer lunacy", he added.
The union movement will now pressure Prime Minister Julia Gillard to set up a job register, as promised by Mr Bowen today, and make it mandatory to advertise locally for workers before importing foreign labour.
It is believed the EMA will stipulate a maximum number of positions that can be filled by workers from overseas, who must have experience in their area of trade and English-speaking competencies.
They must also be paid the same rate as Australian workers and operate under the same conditions.
In return, the company must to commit to train a certain number of Australians with a view to their future participation in the resources sector.
Ms Rinehart's bid to bring in more migrant workers to address labour shortages has been ongoing for some time.
The huge Roy Hill project is situated 277km south of Port Hedland and is a joint venture with South Korean firms STX Corporation and POSCO, and Japan's Marubeni Corporation.
Skills Australia estimates mining operations will need an additional 89,000 workers in the five years to 2016 to meet expected demand.
The number of short-term resources construction jobs is expected to peak at 49,000 alone in 2014.
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People from all over the world are looking to go down-under in the Australian out-back to snatch up a piece of the mining boom pie. While the economy drains in most industries, the Australian mining industry thrives. There are mining jobs opening up all over Australia, particularly in Western Australia and Queensland. Mine companies are open to hiring people from all different backgrounds, from natives to foreigners, skilled to straight-out-of-school. Mining jobs for foriegners never looked so good.
Since there are so many mine sites throughout Australia, there's a lot of selection for those interested in mining jobs for foriegners. Employers generally pay for all flights to the site and back to your home. There is a large array of positions available for different backgrounds and skills. Many entry-level positions pay over $100.000 AU a year for workers, such as the dump truck driver positions. Some other well-paid positions include:
- Heavy equipment operation
- Labouring
- Dump Truck operation
- Administration
- Traineeships/ Apprenticeships
- Geology
Many other jobs are available depending on the mine site you're keen to work on. Many of those interested in mining jobs for foreigners take kindly to mine sites located in Port Hedland, Mackay, Kalgoorlie, Olympic Dam, Mount Isa, and Argyle. Before hopping on a plane over to Australia, it's good to be sure that you are prepared for the job title you seek. You'll want to know:
- What licenses you'll need.
- If there are traineeships available.
- What Visa is required to work in Australia, and how to get it.
- Whether you need mining experience.
- The training required and where to get it.
- The certifications that are required.
- The soonest you can start mining.
You can save time and money by understanding what is expected in the mining industry before applying for mining jobs for foreigners. You'll want to consider where mine sites are located, who to contact about work, and the different job titles available. Securing a job prior to moving to Australia is a much safer financial move than flying over and looking for a job, because the mining industry is very competitive. Now is the perfect time to join the industry, but you'll want to know how to nail the job before job hunting.
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Monetary wise, it’s always been. In fact, it’s even better nowadays. More and more girls are joining the workforce. Blokes have less and less chances to get contracted with marriage measles. Oh, how I wish I could wind back my clock to half my age now!
By the way, where have you been? Perhaps a better question is what sort of mischief have you been up to? :) ;)
I've been here and there, keeping myself busy nowadays. ;) :) 8)
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What's in your mind, mate? ??? Hehehe. :) ;)
By David and Libby Koch From: News Limited newspapers March 05, 2012 12:00AM
HIGH-paying jobs are out there for the taking. They're just not where they used to be.
Your biggest investment is your career.
And, just like your investments, you need to understand how the jobs cycle is changing to take advantage of where the big money is being earned.
Remember when parents used to encourage their kids into the bank or a respectable white-collar middle management position? Not any more.
Today it's all about being open-minded and developing skills to suit the boom industries of mining, online, telecommunications and science.
If you're after a local job and not prepared to broaden career options or skills, then you will more than likely miss out.
The latest employment and wages data provides a terrific career blueprint:
The average wage is $69,170 a year but in mining it's $113,636. At the other end of the scale, the lowest annual wage is accommodation and food at $49,785, along with retail jobs at $50,898.
Over the past year the biggest pay rises were jobs in wholesale trade, construction and mining. But wages dropped for administration, financial and real estate jobs.
Finance jobs have a relatively high average wage, but numbers are being shed and salaries are falling.
On a state-by-state basis, the ACT pays the highest wages (public service salaries are pretty good), followed by Western Australia and the Northern Territory because of their mining booms.
Don't be put off by thinking you've had no experience or skills for these boom industries. Many of the jobs are unskilled and there is a boom in associated industries which support, say, mining.
For example, while the tourism and accommodation industries are generally being hurt by the high Australian dollar, hotels and cafes are booming in mining regions as they cater for the influx of workers.
We know of a former real estate agent retrenched in the property downturn who took an unskilled job in mining for $120,000 a year. He works 12-hour shifts, two weeks on, two weeks off, and all accommodation and food costs are covered. The two-week shift starts when he leaves the airport and finishes when he flies back in.
Yes, he's away from home for two weeks at a time but he's saving a bundle from an "unskilled" job.
Mobility is the key. Being prepared to travel to find a better job is essential in today's labour market.
While there's a lot of talk about mining opportunities, telecommunications and online sales and marketing jobs are also surging.
If you can't find your ideal position at the moment, stay in your current job while continuing to look around.
The best jobs can often be in the remote areas such as the fly-in-fly-out mining jobs or other similar careers.
Don't underestimate the importance of a resume. It can win or lose a job.
A resume should outline why you're the best person for the job. Include all relevant experience, qualifications, skills and emphasise big career achievements. Change the resume for different job applications to make sure you're meeting each of the advertised criteria.
The interview is vital, so make sure you're prepared.
Think about any qualifications, skills and positive qualities that would set you apart from other people applying for the job. Bring them into your answers or bluntly tell your interviewer "I think you should hire me because ... " . Don't be shy. Whoever does the best job marketing themselves will win the job.
sounds good...........two on - two off (weeks). how strenuous is the job? would be nice to get outta here, for a change. where do I sign up? ;) :) 8)
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I've been here and there, keeping myself busy nowadays. ;) :) 8)
Hmmmm! Must be something very interesting. Hehehe. :) ;)
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sounds good...........two on - two off (weeks). how strenuous is the job? would be nice to get outta here, for a change. where do I sign up? ;) :) 8)
Read Reply #35 "Australian Mining Jobs for foreigners" above. :) ;)
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sounds good...........two on - two off (weeks). how strenuous is the job? would be nice to get outta here, for a change. where do I sign up? ;) :) 8)
What syndrome shall we call this? Hehehe. :) ;)
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by: Lanai Vasek From: The Australian May 27, 2012 12:04PM
THE Coalition and the Greens say they will not stand in the way of Labor's push to allow mining magnate Gina Rinehart the right to import more than 1700 migrant labourers on the condition that every effort is made to ensure Australians get access to the jobs first.
Speaking on Sky News's Australian Agenda program opposition finance spokesman Andrew Robb said the Coalition supported enterprise migration agreements "in principle", but wanted to see more detail of the government's current plan.
"We haven't yet seen any detail, not one line of detail in what they have proposed but we do support these kinds of agreements in principle," Mr Robb said.
"Australians who are capable of filling these jobs must be given every opportunity to secure them."
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen on Friday announced that an EMA would be granted for the Roy Hill project - 280km south of Port Headland and 70 per cent owned by Mrs Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting - which would grant 1715 migrant labourers permission to work on the major West Australian iron ore project.
The move struck the ire of Julia Gillard and the nation's most powerful union leaders who said priority should be given to Australian workers.
Greens Leader Christine Milne said her party wanted to see proper parliamentary scrutiny over the EMA scheme, including a parliamentary debate.
"We need to look at ways that we may be able to regulate that process so you do protect the interests of Australians first," Senator Milne told Australian Agenda.
She said if it was proven that foreign workers were needed for the project and there were no other Australians available to do the work, then the party would not stand in the way of the EMA.
But she said training should be given to Australians willing to work before any foreign worker was given a job.
"It may be that we may need workers from elsewhere, but at this stage I am not satisfied that we've adequately looked for those workers at home," Senator Milne said.
"We should be offering the jobs to Australians first and training Australian people to take up those jobs."
Ms Gillard yesterday vowed no foreign worker would take a job that an Australian could do.
"Companies won't be able to bring in foreign workers if there is an Australian ready, able and willing to do the work on the jobs board," the Prime Minister said.
Industry Minister Greg Combet today said construction on the Roy Hill project was expected to begin sometime in 2013/14 and that Mrs Rinehart would be expected to advertise locally for the positions before seeking to employ migrant workers.
"I agree and the government agrees that Australians have got to have a go at getting these jobs," Mr Combet told the ABC's Insiders program.
He said there had also been advance warning of the need for such an EMA to unions, who have been highly critical of the announcement.
"There has been a lot of consultation about an EMA and the need for it," Mr Combet said.
But Australian Workers' Union boss Paul Howes dismissed the plan as "sheer lunacy" and demanded to know why such a decision was made in the same week 800 workers at Qantas and at the Hydro aluminium smelter had lost their jobs.
""I still can't get my head around what genius thought this was a good idea," Mr Howes said.
"It is sheer lunacy in a week where so many jobs have been cut."
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sounds good...........two on - two off (weeks). how strenuous is the job? would be nice to get outta here, for a change. where do I sign up? ;) :) 8)
Yes, indeed! Very2X strenuous. Not suitable for men. The female gender is better :) ;) as mining magnates have lately realized. No! No! No! This is not hearsay. Heard straight from the horse's mouth. ;D Are you a woman wanting to work in the lucrative mining industry but don't think you'll get a look in because of the mining industry's male-dominated history? Don't worry. There has never been a better time for women to enter the mining industry as the mine bosses are starting to realise the advantages of employing women in an industry where there needs to be great attention to detail and a huge amount of responsibility.
Mining companies are employing women because:
They tend to have great safety records.
Their work ethics are excellent.
The number of skilled women is very high.
Women are gentle on the mining equipment.
They tend to keep their equipment clean.
Whether you're longing for adventure in a distant location or you'd rather stay close to home, there are positions open for women all over Australia, and throughout the world. Roles in remote locations generally require travel to and from the site via plane, with shifts lasting a two or three weeks at a time. Holiday time between shifts is generous, and workers are flown back to their home if they are employed in a FIFO position, if they so desire. Special accommodations can even be made for couples if they'd like the same rostered time off.
Thee are particular positions with women that seem to be popular. These often include dump truck driving, engineering, geology, mobile plant operators, administration, drilling and environmental rehabilitation. There may be other positions you would be suitable if you're a woman looking for a job in the mines, and we can help you decide which roles would be suited to your experience and preferences.
For help getting a start in the mining industry, contact our friendly team for current and realiable information and support.
Not meant to discourage you. You can always give it a try. And ...... best of luck. ;D ;)
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Bernard Keane Published 1:59 PM, 28 May 2012
The government is right to assist mining companies – even those run by Gina Rinehart – to obtain foreign workers for constructing large projects. But not because there’s some basic problem with Australian workers taking mining jobs.
Only last week Labor was boasting about the colossal half-trillion dollar pipeline of investment coming into the resources industry (thereby making a mockery of Tony Abbott’s repeated insistence that the tax would harm the industry), but that pipeline goes nowhere if there aren’t appropriately skilled workers available to build and then run projects.
The basic union contention – despite key figures such as Dave Oliver and Paul Howes having been on the Industry Reference Group for the report by Gary Gray that led to the establishment of Enterprise Migration Agreement – is that Australians are missing out on jobs, particularly those displaced by closures affecting manufacturing. But the problem is there aren’t that many skilled Australians looking for jobs. Gray’s estimate is that the resources sector might be 36,000 tradespeople short by 2015. Worse, given the location of mining industry jobs, it makes little economic sense to assume people from major centres in the eastern states will relocate to take them.
Why? It’s nothing to with laziness or being work-shy. It simply doesn’t add up. The biggest group of unemployed people are married people between 35-54. That means they’re likely to have families. Moving your family to a town adjacent to a major mining project is problematic: wages are likely to be high, but so too will housing costs, cancelling out the benefits of any income rise. Ordinary household supplies will also be more expensive. Access to childcare or education choices for your kids is likely to be very limited, as will healthcare options.
If you opt for the other alternative and become a FIFO worker, that enables you to take a job without relocating, but puts significant strain on families and partners who stay behind.
In short, taking a mining job might be superficially appealing, but anyone with a family would have to think long and hard, especially unemployment nationally is only 5 per cent and the chances of picking up work closer to home are high. Instead, mining is better for singles with no kids. But young, skilled singles are only a small component of our unemployed; 15-19-year-olds form a substantial part, but they tend to have fewer skills – and investment in skills and training is a substantial part of the government’s response to the Gray report.
That’s why when Abbott floated the idea of paying unemployed people $4000 to relocate to mining jobs before the 2010 election he was rebuked even by the normally loyal Coalition ally Mitch Hooke, who noted that mining needed highly skilled workers.
Not that the mining industry is blame free. This is the industry that spent decades regarding its workforce as a burden and unions as an enemy to be smitten hip and thigh at every turn. A key reason the industry confronts a skills shortage is that it has helped create it by failing to invest in its people, but like businesses in other sectors it now feels free to slough that cost onto taxpayers.
So we’re left with training programs and importing workers to fill the skills gaps that the rapid expansion of the industry have opened up, or major projects get delayed or cancelled. Preventing employers bringing in workers will simply delay projects and drive up the price of labour (which of course unions are happy to see). In 2011 there were more than 70,000 people in Australia on temporary employment visas. The maximum of 1700 that would be employed at the Roy Hill project are a tiny addition to that, providing some context for the bizarre anger that last week’s announcement by Chris Bowen prompted.
Quite why Julia Gillard decided to blame the whole thing on Bowen and Martin Ferguson and claim she wasn’t aware of it is a mystery. What sort of prime minister defends herself by saying she doesn’t know what’s going on within her own government?
This is good policy. Good policy, and bad judgment from the Prime Minister. The story of this government.
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"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." (George Washington Carver)
:) ;)
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Barry Fitzgerald From: The Australian June 05, 2012 12:00AM
JOB vacancies in the resources industry are set to soar as the task of completing a record $260 billion of new projects and expansions across the country moves into top gear.
The Australian Mines and Metals Association estimates job vacancies in mining, and oil and gas, are running at 6000 positions and could surge to 40,000 vacancies within the next year as 96 resource and energy projects get built or undergo expansions.
The surge means the resources industry is faced with critical shortages across the full sweep of engineering professions, tradespeople, plant operators and machinery operators.
Frustration with the increasing skills shortage and the union backlash against foreign guest workers have prompted an industry call for the Gillard government to look at requiring long-term unemployed to relocate from the cities to take up resource industry jobs or face losing their unemployment benefits.
Pilbara iron ore producer Atlas Iron's executive chairman, David Flanagan, told an investor conference in Melbourne last week that the question that needed to be asked was if it was "sustainable" to have unemployed people drawing social benefits rather than go through the "bother of relocating themselves to work".
Mr Flanagan later said that he was not advocating that "dole bludgers" be kicked off security benefits if they refused to relocate. He said his call was more about how Australia could "encourage the long-term unemployed to get out of their comfort zone".
"I don't know what the long-term solution is," he said.
"I am just posing the question: is it fair on those people who are doing the hard yards with fly-in, fly-out jobs in the industry to subsidise those people who are choosing not to? I reckon it is a fair question for government."
Mr Flanagan said that while there were assistance packages offered to relocate people, they had not been effective.
At Atlas's own operations, Mr Flanagan said it was always hard to fill some positions: drill and blast workers, project managers, civil engineers, surveyors and experienced geologists.
Nev Power, managing director of fellow Pilbara iron ore producer Fortescue Metals Group, had a similar roll call.
"The toughest skills for us to recruit at the moment are civil engineers, experienced mining engineers, mine superintendents and those sorts of people," Mr Power said.
He said that Fortescue had resorted to bringing in workers from overseas with specific skills in some maintenance areas and some production areas.
Mr Power said the present debate on foreign workers filling job vacancies had been taken a "bit out of context".
"Last year Australia had about 56,000 primary 457 visas issued and the majority of those went into NSW and in health, IT and construction," he said.
At the end of March there were 7290 holders of 457 visas working in the mining industry, making it the fifth-biggest user of the temporary visa system. The government has issued the first of its new foreign worker agreements to the $9.5bn Roy Hill iron ore project, 70 per cent owned by Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting.
Mr Power said Fortescue was not having trouble filling its vacancies but he understood that it was "going to be tougher for people that come after us because we got in ahead of the boom cycle in construction".
A resource industry job expo organised by AMMA in Perth last month attracted 14,000 visitors over two days. But AMMA's executive director of industry services, Minna Knight, said that as much as 60 per cent of the crowd had skills that did "not necessarily relate to the resources industry".
"We are just like any other industry; you need to train up," Ms Knight said. "You just can't walk in the door."
The Minerals Council of Australia has blamed the chronic shortage of mining and geoscience professionals on the inability of universities to train enough people to meet industry demand.
The industry group also identified two areas of critical shortage: tradespeople (mechanical and electrical) and experienced miners/plant operators.
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"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." :) ;)
- Victor Kiam
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30 May, 2012 Jody Elliott, The Resource Channel
Australia now has a total 456 projects in the construction pipeline with 272 of those already committed and/or under construction, with a combined value of $424b.
Another 184 projects are in the pipeline awaiting Final Investment Decision.
Conservative estimations are that approvals for at least $50-80b worth of additional project value will be announced in the next 12 months.
Of the committed projects, the breakdown by state is:
•Western Australia; 89
•Northern Territory; 36
•Queensland; 123
•New South Wales; 94
•Victoria/Tasmania; 53
•South Australia; 61
The major commodities under development are coal, iron ore, liquefied natural gas and coal seam gas.
Whilst the operational numbers are significant, the immediate impact will be felt in the construction space with a peak of 250,000 required between 2013 and 2015.
That’s up from the 75,000 currently employed in the sector.
Even by the second half of 2013, the construction demand is expected to have doubled.
Acute shortages will be felt in the following disciplines:
•Structural Fitters and Welders
•Mechanical Fitters
•Electricians
•Fixed and Mobile Plant Operators
•Structural Steel Fixers
•Motor Mechanics
•Crane Operators
•Carpenters
•Concreters
In addition, Australia is producing fewer than half of its current annual engineering workforce needs.
According to Engineers Australia, even with Australian universities and TAFEs producing around 9,000 graduates annually, Australia is still unable to provide a reliable domestic solution to key engineering shortages.
Over the past six years, more than one in 20 engineering projects did not proceed due to problems recruiting and retaining suitably qualified engineers.
To further demonstrate the lightening speed of demand, 44,600 new jobs were added to the Australian resource sector in the year to February 2012, increasing from 205,000 to 249,700.
This increase cements the industry as the nation’s second biggest provider of new jobs behind health and aged care.
Not surprisingly, the major gains were seen in Western Australia and Queensland which accounted for two-thirds of all new mining jobs.
New South Wales gained an extra 8,700, South Australia 3,100 and Victoria 2,000.
When you read about projects, most will cite large numbers which are inclusive of both the construction and operational workforce.
Whilst you will see many of the ‘operators’ advertising for operational roles or expressions of interest in preparation for major projects, the bulk of the jobs will be in construction and with smaller businesses supplying the works or equipment.
When the general media talks about 10,000 jobs with Gorgon for example, around 2,000 of these are likely to be ongoing operational and the remainder with suppliers or major contractors who are awarded work packages during the construction phase.
This applies to other projects.
When seeking opportunities to work on projects, the following is a guide:
Operational Roles
Will include Engineering, Technical, Functional Support (like HR, Supply, Finance etc) Trades and Operating roles.
Typically, employers/operators will seek candidates who are highly experienced in their area, obviously qualified, and/or for operating roles, will ideally have a trade background.
You will, however, see growing opportunities for trainee positions for operating, and apprenticeships for trades.
Construction Roles:
These will vary considerably and include all types of Engineering functions, including highly specialist Project Engineers and Managers through to Labourers and Trade Assistants.
Work will be with major construction contractors like Monadelphous, Macmahon, NRW Civil and Mining, United, Transfield Services, Thiess etc and generally provide a reasonable tenure on projects.
These types of organisations typically recruit all level of roles depending on the nature of the work package awarded.
Other work will come from smaller suppliers with very specific work packages.
For example, work packages might include the construction of the accommodation village where plumbers, carpenters and formworkers are required, or for diving services, where only highly skilled and qualified divers are required.
When we blog about projects and who has been awarded work packages, we do so to offer information on what type of work will be conducted and who then may be seeking people to complete that work.
This facilitates your own research.
All information collected has been done so through extensive research from public and credible sources and is accurate as at May 2012.
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"A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job." :) ;)
- Zig Ziglar
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By Sarah Michael From: news.com.au June 13, 2012 3:38PM
THE skills shortage is hitting white collar workers with sales and marketing roles among the most difficult to fill.
An Australian Institute of Management (AIM) National Salary Survey shows more than two-thirds of large Australian companies would look overseas to fill jobs as the skills gap spreads across industries.
Managers are having the most difficulty recruiting for technical and trade, sales and marketing and construction and engineering jobs, the report found.
“Perception-wise it looks like companies are going to be having certain growing pains and it’s not just the mining industry,” AIM head of research Matt Drinan said.
Peter Noblet, senior regional director at global recruitment firm Hays, said employers are looking overseas to fill marketing jobs because Australian workers are lacking in a combination of skill and experience.
“I understand that can be frustrating for job seekers and it’s frustrating for recruitment companies as well,” he said.
Mr Noblet said that while a lot of people in Australia study marketing degrees, employers were looking for people with specialised experience that “can add some value”.
“When times are tough companies want value out of any dollar they spend and marketing spend is key to that,” he said.
The AIM report found that more than 70.2 per cent of large companies across the nation indicated that they would consider hiring staff from overseas in order to fill skills shortfalls while more than half the companies reported that they already employ overseas workers.
Construction and engineering roles were the most popular jobs firms looked overseas to fill, the report found.
But sales and marketing was the second most popular, with 28.6 per cent of companies that employ migrant workers recruiting them for sales or marketing jobs.
This comes as a report from Hays showed junior and mid management jobs in sales and marketing, and accountancy and finance, were among the most difficult for firms to fill.
The report found 18 per cent of firms are finding it difficult to fill junior sales roles, up 7 per cent from last year.
And 19 per cent of companies are finding it difficult to fill junior finance roles, up 4 per cent from last year.
Hays managing director Nick Deligiannis said the shortage of candidates in general areas and industries can be easily overshadowed by the colossal staffing needs of the mining boom.
“Our survey clearly shows that not only are employers across most industries continuing to register both permanent and temporary jobs, but for positions in demand skills shortages have intensified over the past year,” he said.
Mr Drinan said the recent decision to grant mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill project an enterprise migration agreement (EMA) had placed the spotlight on skills shortages in WA, particularly on the mining sector.
"However, mining companies comprise a comparatively small proportion of Australia's employers and our data indicates that the effects of the skills shortage is being felt across a broad range of industry sectors and job functions, nationally," Mr Drinan said.
"In addition to organisations casting their net beyond our shores to help meet skills shortfalls, or as an alternative to this practice, companies might be wise to look at developing existing staff to help fill skill gaps within their business."
Last month the Federal Government announced more than 1700 foreign workers could be brought in under an EMA for Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill iron ore project in the Pilbara, sparking controversy from unions and the public.
With AAP
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Driving lessons here cost a fortune. Public transportation in remote areas is not as efficient as in the city. :) ;)
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Tuesday June 12, 2012, 4:30am PDT
By Karan Kumar - Exclusive to Resource Investing News
In the male-dominated world of mining, women are slowly but surely digging their way to the top. While still sharply underrepresented in technical, engineering, and boardroom positions, women have made inroads into other jobs in the mining industry, such as truck operation.
“A known success story is that many mining companies now employ female truck operators as they take better care of the multi-million dollar equipment,” Barbara Dischinger, founder of Women in Mining (UK) (WIM UK) and director of the WIM Community Portal, told Resource Investing News in an interview. “There are less accidents, tire changes, and cost savings as a result.”
Dischinger said an increasing number of women are rising up the ranks, sitting on boards at mining companies and taking up more technical jobs. “In 20 years’ time, things are going to look very different. The changes will happen due to a change of attitudes and perception, the case being proven that having women in management makes sense from a business perspective, the skills shortage bringing more women into the mining workforce, more female students studying mining-related disciplines and the work of women in mining groups, to name but a few.”
Of course, some women have taken on executive roles, but they are few. Cynthia Carroll was tapped to head Anglo American (LSE:AAL) five years ago, and the world’s richest woman, Australian Gina Reinhart, presides over a multi-billion-dollar iron ore and coal empire.
On Australia’s Gold Coast, Reynolds Soil Technologies (RST) recently hired Melanie Seal as its Argentina-based country manager. The company said it has recorded an increase in the number of women in its dust control business in the fields of engineering, technical trades and environmental science.
“We have seen an increase of approximately 30 percent over the past few years of women moving into mining roles,” RST director Peter Parkinson said. “The work culture of mining is changing and we are seeing more females qualified or studying to enter into the mining industry. Though there is still a stigma around mining being a man’s job, this is beginning to shift as more and more talented women enter the workforce.”
Up-to-date statistics are not available, but a study published in 2010 shows that the representation of women in mining and exploration in Canada increased from less than 11 percent in 1996 to over 14 percent in 2006. Their representation in the overall workforce in 2006 in Canada was at 47.4 percent.
The study also shows that women in mining earn roughly 32 percent less than their male counterparts compared to the average Canadian gender-income gap of 21 percent.
In Australia, for example, while women represent 45 percent of the total workforce, only 16 percent of workers in the mining sector are women, the Australian Women in Resources Alliance (AWRA) reported in a newspaper article in April. AWRA wants to increase female participation to 25 percent of the resource, allied, and construction sectors by 2025.
Many companies are also actively helping to increase the participation of women in the mining industry. Anglo American (LSE:AAL) became the principal sponsor of WIM UK in 2010 to promote “the employment, retention and progress of women in the mining industry.”
Consulting company McKinsey & Co.’s 2012 Women Matter study, which examines the gender-diversity programs of 235 large European companies, shows that women’s representation on executive committees and corporate boards increased to 17 percent in 2011 from 10 percent in 2007.
“Despite the considerable efforts many companies have made, progress in many places is slow,” the report states. “At current rates of improvement, women will still account for under 20 percent of seats on Europe’s executive committees 10 years from now.”
In the mining sector, however, the only way for women seems to be upwards. “The male-dominated culture of mining is changing,” Dischinger said. “And it is evident in little details such as female changing areas in mines and the availability of safety gear – hard hats, harnesses – in colors like pink and purple.”
Time will tell whether these small changes will evolve into more substantive shifts, as more women take their place on minesites and in boardrooms.
Securities Disclosure: I, Karan Kumar, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
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By Michelle Hele From: The Courier-Mail May 22, 2012 12:00AM
THE cost of buying or renting in Gladstone is predicted to become even more expensive with at least 6000 fly in, fly out workers tipped to be operating out of the city by midway through next year.
The latest Gladstone Region Housing Quarterly Report has revealed forecasts of 6400 fly in, fly out workers by midway through 2014. There are currently about 2300.
Using figures from the Office of Economic and Statistical Research, the report said the growing workforce in Gladstone was already affecting housing supply, affordability and demand.
Rents are still going up with the median rent for a four-bedroom home $650 a week during the first quarter of 2012 compared with the Queensland average of $410 a week.
Median house prices also exceeded the Queensland average and land prices jumped by 7.2 per cent in the year to June 2011 above the Queensland median of $187,000 for the first time.
The report found development activity had been strong as a result of demand for accommodation with 773 formed lots registered and available for sale as at December 2011 and a further 1846 lots in the pipeline.
"Residential dwelling approvals for the year to December 2011 were the highest on record for Gladstone Region, with 956 approvals comprising 786 houses and 170 other dwelling types," it said.
By Alice Roberts 18 June, 2012 4:48PM AEST
The annual Australian Local Government Association's State of the Regions report has highlighted the problems facing regional communities in light of a prosperous mining boom.
In the small coal mining township of Blackwater, 200 kilometres west of Rockhampton, residents are finding it increasingly difficult to afford housing.
Blackwater furniture and electrical business owner Tom Mitchell says their biggest challenge is retaining employees.
"We can't compete," he says.
"It's very difficult as a retailer to match any costings that the mining industry offers."
He says he runs his business on skeleton staff.
"I would normally have eight to nine staff members and we have about five at the moment," says Tom.
"Predominantly we employ wives of miners because they're not relying on the income to make a living but having said that I have an office manager who this is his primary employment and he finds it very difficult to find housing.
"So we've had to provide housing which is an additional cost for us as well."
He says he doesn't feel enough of the mining revenue is being returned to the community.
"I think affordable housing is the biggest issue for non-mining industry personnel especially for businesses that are not technically mine related," he says.
"While the mines do support us as a business there are a lot of issues that are concerning to us as a business owner.
"People are coming into the town, they work in the town but they only stay here for their shift then they go out of town and they're not purchasing things from businesses such as mine."
He says his home is based at his place of business which makes living in Blackwater more affordable.
"Although it is difficult it's a good lifestyle but the challenges that we face probably far outweigh those maybe in the capital cities or large regional towns where they have the pool of personnel to draw from for suitable staff members," says Tom.
He says the future of his business is positive but for the time being, they'll have to tighten their belt.
"From this time five years ago it is quite different," he says.
"If you were to come into our store now as opposed to five years ago, the store was probably quite full but it's just a matter of honing down the types of inventory that we stock."
He says he doesn't feel the community of Blackwater will survive the mining boom.
"It's diminishing very quickly because of the ratio of people actually living in the town to the people that fly-in fly-out or drive-in drive-out.
"That has a significant impact on the town as a whole and you can actually see that in the town itself and that has a huge impact on my business."
Blackwater Community Progress Group Chairperson Glen Hamilton says it's a mostly transient workforce in Blackwater.
"The coal mining boom is at a very high pace, they're trying to get coal out so they can sell it and so we've got a lot of transients coming into the town living in single persons quarters," he says.
"The effect of that is residents are tending to leave and consequently other services are affected by that."
He says housing is a key issue for the community.
"All the blocks that have been available have been built on and our group has been trying to lobby the Local and State Governments to get parcels of land opened up so more people can have the choice to live in Blackwater or be transient," says Glen.
He says they've had some success with 200 blocks now open.
"It's going to be great to get people to buy their block of land and build a home in Blackwater because if there are any blocks of land they're being snapped up and built on and they'll steal a little bit away from the single persons' quarters in the town footprint," he says.
He says the feedback he's had from residents is that revenue from the mines is being distributed elsewhere and not being returned to the Bowen Basin.
The report suggests an inquiry should be launched to investigate the inequality across Australian regions.
Glen agrees.
"What they need to do is put out a questionnaire to people in local areas, of actual residents in the towns and see what they think," he says.
"They'll get a loud and clear message from people who live in the town.
"People are really unhappy with the lack of support from the State Government so far.
"With the amount of revenue that comes from the coal we believe we deserve a fair share of having infrastructure and our towns better looked after."
He says it's becoming increasingly difficult for residents to remain in the town.
He says major supermarkets are struggling to attract young people into their workforce and the town doesn't have a pharmacist.
"If their employer doesn't supply them with some form of accommodation they can't stay," he says.
"I know people who have the husband and wife working with three kids at the school.
"The hubby works on the Council and his wife works at the hospital as a cleaner and they make enough money to make the 500 dollars a week rent on a place, the landlord comes and say I want a 1000 or 1200, I could put some who works for a mining company in there.
"We're going to change the lease so those people can't afford to get back into another house because the rent is between 800 and 1500 dollars per week.
"So they consequently have to leave, leave the job, leave the area.
"Then they take their kids out of the school, the school numbers go down and then we lose a teacher because there's not enough students to warrant that amount of teachers."
He says the council is having trouble attracting workers because there's limited affordable housing.
He says the government needs to do more.
"They need to have a whole of government approach where it's legislated upon so that these areas remain sustainable," he says.
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If you happen to land on a mining job like this area (many minesites are), you might have a nightmare finding an accommodation during your roster out. Suggest to go caravanning.
The plus side is that, as in Gladstone, property prices will most likely soar. So, when you have the money, ..... :) ;)
Just throwing in a suggestion. Might be a good idea to apply as a group for a location.
Instead of Fly-IN-Fly-Out (FIFO) go Drive-In-Drive-Out (DIDO). 16 of you could buy an 8-seater 4WD towing a caravan having 8 sleeping berths and a mini kitchen with dining table, gas stove and fridge. So while 8 are on roster, the other 8 would then go to the nearest caravan park rather than checking-in to a motel. The caravan park has electricity, laundry and shower room. Saves a lot of money. :) ;)
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February 6, 2012 – Good news for overseas workers interested to work in Australia and apply for working visa Australia!
The Australian government just recently admitted a shortfall of 92,000 workers by 2015.
The vacancies are caused by a number of factors; chief amongst which is the reluctance of Australians to do “menial” jobs, as well as Australians moving from the hospitality industry into higher paying mining and resources jobs.
Experts say that due to the fact that mining jobs are high-paying, these have lured young Australian workers from traditional fields such as retail and hospitality, while others would rather go on the dole than do certain jobs themselves. However, with the tourism industry responsible for $35 billion worth of annual income to Australia, the government needs to act quickly to address the situation, particularly in regional areas.
:) ;)
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24 Oct, 2011 04:00 AM
THE Federal Government has drastically underestimated the amount of resources industry jobs that will be created in the next five years, according to mining giant BHP Billiton.
The company, which operates the Cannington silver and lead deposit with a 600-strong fly-in-fly-out workforce, estimated the industry would need an extra 170,000 personnel in the next five years to keep up with demand for Australia's natural resources.
This is almost 60 per cent higher than a previous government forecast. With a host of new mining projects in the North West Minerals Province in development, Mount Isa is sure to see its fair share of the 170,000 jobs.
A number of new projects are scheduled to come online in the next few years, including MMG's Dugald River project, Xstrata's Lady Loretta deposit and Legend International Hold-ing's three tier phosphate project.
The Legend project alone is expected to create 1300 jobs for the region. Mount Isa Mayor John Molony said he expected a nationwide skills shortage if the BHP prediction was correct.
"In a country of 22 million with an unemployment rate of only 5 percent you will think the country will struggle to fill those jobs," he said.
Mr Molony said he hoped the region would not have to rely too heavily on fly-in fly-out labour to fill the gap.
"We hope they house their workers locally and contribute to these communities Mount Isa, Cloncurry and Julia Creek," he said.
"When they just travel through they put weight on our services and infrastructure without contributing to the community."
Resources Minister Martin Ferguson said the gap between BHP's forecast and the Government's could be explained by the wave of new investment approved in the past year.
Skill shortages were expected to peak in 2014 or 2015, he said.
"Our fundamentals as a nation economically are sound, as reflected in the BHP projections on labour force demand," Mr Ferguson said.
In order to meet the massive labour demand, mining giants had already unleashed a recruitment drive in depressed eco-nomic regions in Australia and were likely to expand use of foreign workers.
"The Government understands the emerging shortages of skilled and semi-skilled labour,'' Mr Ferguson said.
"It's not a bad problem to have as a government in terms of the strength of our economy but also one we have to manage because we've got to get the labour both domestically and internationally.''
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30 May, 2012 Jody Elliott, The Resource Channel
Whilst the operational numbers are significant, the immediate impact will be felt in the construction space with a peak of 250,000 required between 2013 and 2015.
That’s up from the 75,000 currently employed in the sector.
Even by the second half of 2013, the construction demand is expected to have doubled.
All information collected has been done so through extensive research from public and credible sources and is accurate as at May 2012.
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First estimate is 92,000. Then, revised to 170,000. Latest revision, 250,000. Just goes up, up, up!!! Hehehe. :) ;)
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people from here should go there then. we have a very high rate of unemployment over here, especially here in California. the job market is so bad that hispanics crossing the our border illegally is down. and some of those who are already here illegally even went back to mexico. ;) :) 8)
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An excellent opportunity for the people back home.
Had a similar scenario before. Due to global shortage, to be given a pr, Aus required 3 yrs experience in systems analysis and computer programming or transferrable skills. Guaranteed employment not required.
Now, to be given a mining job, they’re not even asking for mining experience. Issue a temporary visa and train the successful applicant. Think requires only 2 yrs residency to secure a pr. Yes, it’s a crisis.
Been inundating (hehehe) this site with info on it. Skipper’s job to spread it during his Phil sojourns. Haven’t got feedback from him yet. Wonder why he’s :-X on it. Probably afraid ‘coz demand payback. Hehehe. :) ;)
At that time, relatively easier to apply for a pr for one with my backgrd & exp.
Had 3 options, viz., USA, Can, Aus. My target was USA mainly 'coz many relatives there. But it had the longest queue as every Fil wants to go there.
Applied for a gc. Due for interview '82 yet. Fed up with living in the Phil. Walang asenso. Palagi lang gutom. Hehehe.
Changed my plan. Applied for Aus pr 'coz fastest to secure one.
Came to Syd. Checked-in at YMCA 'coz no relative here. At that time, it had a backpacker's youth hostel for young tourists with little money. Membered myself in YMCA Cebu to get 10% member discount. Got this info from a Pinoy friend already living here. Looked for a job.
Good decision to change plan. Had I waited for the'82 USA interview, would never have been able to leave Phil for med reasons.
Heard that o/seas demand for nurses has nosedived. So, don't let this opportunity slip by.
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Yes, indeed! It's a crisis. :) ;)
18 June, 2012 Andrew Duffy
One of Australia's top businesswomen says refugees should help fill empty jobs in the mining industry.
Speaking at the start of International Refugee Week, The Sunday Times reports Janet Holmes a Court said Australia needed to start having a more informed debate about asylum seekers.
She also said instead of being detained in detention centres refugees should be used to help fill vacancies in the resources industry.
"It's astounding in a time when we have labour shortages and skills shortages that there are people in detention centres," she said.
"If they have skills, why not use them? They would be so willing to work and so grateful for the opportunity."
The idea is the latest in the growing trend of looking toward alternative sources of labour to solve the skills shortage in the mining industry.
The Federal Government has already started looking to the United States to fill vacancies, and has developed a new jobs board to ensure Australians are given the first chance to fill empty positions.
Earlier this month Queensland MP Bob Katter and Atlas Iron executive chairman David Flanagan said unemployed people should also be encouraged to apply for mining jobs.
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The Sydney Morning Herald June 27, 2012 - 2:00PM
Iron ore exports are forecast to jump 10 per cent in the next fiscal year as mining companies spend billions of dollars beefing up operations, the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE) says.
Coal shipments are also expected to soar.
The increases reflect massive work in Australia over the past year by mega-producers Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and others to dig more mines amid expectations that China, the biggest buyer of Australian minerals, will weather the global economic malaise and maintain strong industrial growth.
BREE predicted iron ore exports of 510 million tonnes in the financial year that begins in July after downgrading its forecast for the current year by 10 million tonnes to 463 million tonnes, citing the impact of bad weather on mining operations.
"The increase in export volumes across the majority of commodities reflects recent expansions to mine and infrastructure capacity," BREE chief economist Quentin Grafton said today.
Although economic growth has moderated in China since mid-2011, consumption and investment are expected to remain robust, Grafton said, adding that the country's economic growth was "sustainable" at around 8 per cent through 2013.
With the exception of aluminium, exports of all major minerals and energy commodities are forecast to climb.
Metallurgical and thermal coal exports were both set to rise by 13 per cent from a year earlier, BREE said.
The largest increases, in percentage terms, are expected for liquefied natural gas, up 21 per cent, and alumina, up 15 per cent. Copper exports are forecast to jump 10 per cent.
Slumping commodity prices in general and escalating costs have squeezed cash flows, pushing BHP and Rio to reconsider the pace of mine expansion, though neither has shown signs of pulling back in iron ore.
According to government data, iron ore continues to remain a key part of the resources industry, with 15 projects, costing a total of $25.6 billion, in advanced stages of development.
Rio, the world's second-largest miner of iron ore after Brazil's Vale, currently runs its mines at an annual rate of 230 million tonnes and has already put in place work to take output first to 283 million tonnes, then 353 million tonnes.
At an expanded rate of 353 million tonnes, Rio's Australian mines would be supplying nearly a third of the world trade in iron ore.
Iron ore prices grew dramatically to a peak of nearly $200 per tonne on a cost-and-freight China basis in February 2011, boosted by supply constraints and Chinese appetite for the steelmaking raw material.
Since the second half of last year, however, slowing economic growth and increased supply have put pressure on prices.
Benchmark iron ore with 62 per cent iron content stood at $US135.40 a tonne today.
According to mining consultancy Raw Materials Group (RMG), iron ore supply and demand are likely to be balanced in 2 years, slightly later than previously expected, as some new projects are constrained by political risk and difficult logistics.
Australia's metallurgical coal exports should climb to around 161 million tonnes in 2012-13, BREE said, although total earnings on this are slated to decline about 2 per cent due to a modest drop in coal prices.
Reuters
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;) :) 8)
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how are you, dawg?
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miner...............might still be a good profession. ;) :) 8)
sounds good...........two on - two off (weeks). how strenuous is the job? would be nice to get outta here, for a change. where do I sign up? ;) :) 8)
people from here should go there then. we have a very high rate of unemployment over here, especially here in California. the job market is so bad that hispanics crossing the our border illegally is down. and some of those who are already here illegally even went back to mexico. ;) :) 8)
;) :) 8)
Hhmmm! :) ;)
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Jane Cowan reported this story on Saturday, June 30, 2012 08:11:00
ELIZABETH JACKSON: From the frontline, to the unemployment queue. [??? Dawg must be miles behind] ;D ;)
Too often that's the grim reality for America's war heroes, returning from the battlefield at a time when there are already more job seekers than the economy can handle.
But now help is coming from an unexpected quarter: Australian mining companies.
North America correspondent, Jane Cowan, reports from a job fair with a difference in Detroit, Michigan.
JANE COWAN: When he got out of the army, Justin Schnepp thought the hard bit was over.
Little did he know.
JUSTIN SCHNEPP: It's pretty challenging. I find it very hard to entertain the thought of anything other than the military.
JANE COWAN: After six years and two tours in Iraq, the transition to the civilian workforce has been tough.
JUSTIN SCHNEPP: It has its days where you wonder what you're going to do the next day, 'cos I am unemployed right now.
JANE COWAN: He's not the only one. If the war was the frying pan, the US job market can feel like the fire.
As hard as it is for ordinary Americans to find work, unemployment's even worse amongst returning servicemen and women.
Thousands of war veterans converged on a hall in Detroit this week, attracted by the promise of more than 20,000 jobs offered by employers ranging from the big car companies like General Motors, to a local pizza place.
RETURNED MALE SOLDIER: Going from infantry it's pretty hard because not too many people want you to go out and shoot people
RETURNED FEMALE SOLDIER: It's been very difficult, but, however, today I hope I find a job.
JANE COWAN: John Garcia is with the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
JOHN GARCIA: Some of these young men and women have gone to Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world that are doing three, four, five combat tours. They come back and there's a stigma I think of post traumatic stress syndrome, or combat fatigue. They don't understand the veteran.
JANE COWAN: A problem the US president, Barack Obama's, been trying to fix with incentives like tax cuts for businesses that hire ex military personnel.
BARACK OBAMA: Standing up for our veterans, this is not a Democratic responsibility, it's not a Republican responsibility, it's an American responsibility.
JANE COWAN: But while America's struggling with unemployment, Australia has the opposite problem; facing skills shortages, especially in the booming mining industry.
Colleen Lucas is here in Detroit, recruiting for Australian companies.
COLLEEN LUCAS: It's pretty much across the board; from central Queensland to Western Australia down to South Australia; there's projects going on all over the place really; in gas, coal, iron ore.
JANE COWAN: But Colleen Lucas is conscious giving jobs to foreigners can be sensitive territory.
COLLEEN LUCAS: Australia is looking for some skills that are in short supply at the moment to be able to get some projects off the ground. Some of them are just a little bit limited because of the particular people that are required to get projects up and running. And once they're up and running then there's heaps of job opportunities for lots of Australians.
In the meantime, American war veterans like Justin Schnepp are more than happy to help out.
JUSTIN SCHNEPP: Well I was in Germany for six years, so the thought of going to another country - I like that idea. You know, you get to see the world again. And I - it would be pretty interesting maybe to work in a mine - you know, see what it's all about; more hard work and I would do that.
JANE COWAN: With thousands more troops streaming home from the war winding down in Afghanistan, it's not exactly a long term fix.
But America will take what it can get.
This is Jane Cowan in Detroit for Saturday AM.
how are you, dawg?
Skipper, do you know where he lives? Or, should I ask, where he used to live?
Yes, indeed!!!!! This is a very interesting kind of deployment. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Australian Mining 29 June, 2012 Andrew Duffy
Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill chief executive Barry Fitzgerald has defended the use of foreign workers on mining projects and claimed they're an important "risk management" strategy.
PerthNow reports Fitzgerald said foreign workers were necessary and Hancock Prospecting was already "clearly on the record saying we need to bring in cheap overseas labour".
Fitzgerald also said debate over overseas labour in the mining industry was a hot topic because most people knew personally of jobseekers that had attempted to work in the sector.
Fairfax Media reports Fitzgerald said overseas investors in the Roy Hill mine had marked the skills shortage as a key liability and using foreign workers was a necessary "de-risking" strategy.
Hancock Prospecting has previously raised concerns about Roy Hill's funding due to delays in part caused by the legal dispute within the Rinehart family.
But Fitzgerald told a Perth audience yesterday the company was still confident it would get funding.
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its detailed quarterly jobs figures showing the Australian mining sector has continued its fast-paced growth - and NSW Miners have played an important role in that expansion. In May 2012, almost 260,000 people were employed in the mining sector around Australia. That’s a rise of over 88 percent since May 2009 compared with total Australian employment which grew by 5.5 percent over the same period.
This increase is impressive and has exceeded official expectations. Back in 2010, the Federal Government’s National Resources Sector Employment Taskforce forecast that employment in the minerals sector would see an annual average growth rate of just under 5 percent, reaching 216,000 people employed by the end of 2014. But the new ABS figures show that job growth in the mining sector surpassed government expectations in November 2011.
In NSW alone, there are now over 50,000 people directly employed in mining, representing a 68 percent increase in mining jobs between May 2009 and May 2012. But the economic reach of mining is much further than our traditional mining towns. The industry helps generate over 300,000 direct and indirect jobs in our state and there are at least 3,800 Sydney businesses supplying goods and services to our mines.
And the growth of mining in our state affords our youth more education and employment pathways. Right now, there are at least 750 school leavers and university graduates participating in training and apprenticeships at our mines.
Even if you aren’t directly employed in mining or a business that services the industry, it’s fair to say that almost everyone is connected to mining in some way. It could be through your shares or your superannuation. Or through the government services and infrastructure that are funded through royalties worth $1.2 billion every year and growing.
Mining helps to put teachers in our classrooms, nurses in our hospitals and police on our streets. Plus, NSW Miners also produce the coal that powers 91 percent of Sydney’s homes and businesses. So the responsible growth of the NSW mining industry benefits not just our miners, but the whole State.
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5 July, 2012 Andrew Duffy
Training provider Mines Rescue and mining services provider UGM Australia have launched a new program to train unskilled workers for jobs in the mining industry.
Supported by NSW Minister for Resources and Energy Chris Hartcher the CoalStart program recently ran a pilot program and Mines Rescue general manager Paul Healey told Australian Mining there was potential for "thousands" of people to undertake the new course.
Hartcher said while the program would target people with no mining experience, known as cleanskins, it would also look to up-skill some tradespeople for mining work.
"Most of the trainees will be cleanskins," he said.
"We have brought in some electricians who are qualified in normal commercial electrician skills and used that course to prepare them for a mining career as well."
"It wasn't necessarily designed for that, it's mostly for operator training, but it does have other applications."
The 15 day course will focus on hands-on work, but will also combine safety training and virtual reality simulation.
Healey told Australian Mining there had been "strong interest" in the CoalStart program, with the skills shortage hurting mining companies across the nation.
"You don't have to go to WA to find that shortage you can see it in QLD and you can see it in western NSW," he said.
"In particular with trades, there are just not enough electricians to service the mining industry."
Healy said because the program was still in a pilot stage details on its cost and intake number were still being determined.
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Australian Mining 29 June, 2012 Andrew Duffy
Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill chief executive Barry Fitzgerald has defended the use of foreign workers on mining projects and claimed they're an important "risk management" strategy.
PerthNow reports Fitzgerald said foreign workers were necessary and Hancock Prospecting was already "clearly on the record saying we need to bring in cheap overseas labour".
Fitzgerald also said debate over overseas labour in the mining industry was a hot topic because most people knew personally of jobseekers that had attempted to work in the sector.
Fairfax Media reports Fitzgerald said overseas investors in the Roy Hill mine had marked the skills shortage as a key liability and using foreign workers was a necessary "de-risking" strategy.
Hancock Prospecting has previously raised concerns about Roy Hill's funding due to delays in part caused by the legal dispute within the Rinehart family.
But Fitzgerald told a Perth audience yesterday the company was still confident it would get funding.
Herald Sun Rebecca Lawson From: PerthNow July 05, 2012 2:38PM
MINING magnate Gina Rinehart says Australia needs to act quickly on its high business costs or risk losing its $1 trillion investment pipeline, which is already being squeezed.
With growing evidence that Australia is becoming “too expensive and too uncompetitive” to do export-oriented business, such as mining, the billionaire also said the Federal Government’s carbon and mining taxes were not helping.
In her regular monthly column in the Australian Resources and Investments magazine, out today, Mrs Rinehart acknowledged that what was before argued as self-serving interests, the issue of high costs was now becoming an “accepted truth”.
She pointed to various economic reports and comments from business leaders from around the world that showed Australia had fallen in business competitiveness due to regulatory burdens, productivity issues and high costs, such as labour.
Australia’s labour costs, she said, were 35 per cent higher compared to the United States’ Gulf Coast, which has a big oil and gas industry.
“These challenges are now beyond serious dispute,” Mrs Rinehart writes.
“To point them out is, I hope, no longer a sign of self-interest, but a duty, and a call for action.”
Mrs Rinehart pointed to a recent report which said the country’s near $1 trillion investment pipeline was under pressure, showed Australia could not “ignore how dependent we now are on that pipeline”.
“This pipeline is primarily, not only, supported by multinationals, and we should never forget that these multinationals are multinationals, with other investment opportunities offshore,” Mrs Rinehart said.
“Productivity problems, labour shortages and approval costs and delays are to blame, so it is heartening that we’re finally moving from arguing about such things to realising we need to fix them.”
Mrs Rinehart said while she had other investment options around the globe, her goal was to create sustainable jobs in Australia.
She also said she was pleased the Federal Government had approved the Enterprise Migration Agreement for Hancock Prospecting’s $9.5 billion Roy Hill project in the Pilbara, with details on the deal yet to be finalised.
“Here is a potential agreement that will not only help business, but will help the nation,” she said.
“The 1715 temporary skilled overseas workers for the remote, hot Pilbara are actually just a small fraction of the 100,000 such workers entering Australia each year.”
She said the EMA will give her company the guaranteed labour required for Roy Hill, which will provide 6700 jobs for Australians during construction and more than 1000 during the mine’s operation.
“These are sustainable jobs that won’t exist unless we can get sufficient labour for construction and bank loans for debt finance; however, banks need to be assured before providing money that we can get sufficient labour.”
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Yes, MG sheilas, yet another reason you should choose Aus instead of USA. Cheap labour. Baratohon ra. Hehehe. :) ;)
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Australian Mining 6 July, 2012 Vicky Validakis
The mining boom has brought with it opportunities to make money in all quarters. With the skills shortage facing the mining industry, finding suitable people for positions is now more important than ever. This is where recruitment agencies have traditionally stepped in to help companies out and find them the right people for the job.
At last count, there were more than 200 mining-specific recruitment agencies operating throughout Australia. IBISWorld estimates that the industry will be worth $2.6 billion annually in the next five years. With numbers like this, it's no wonder the recruitment industry is one of the busiest in Australia.
Often regarded as the first-step to locating the right person for the job, recruitment agencies have consistently been the go-to for mining companies. Utilising specialist knowledge and experience in identifying quality candidates for highly skilled positions, the rise of recruitment agencies in conjunction with the mining boom itself, saw mining companies paying an agency to find someone suitable for the job.
This level of expertise and trouble-free recruiting has been especially relevant to companies who might be time-poor and don't have the resources to scout talent for themselves. Out-sourcing the often time-consuming work of short-listing, conducting reference checks and finding the candidates suitable for highly skilled positions has seen the growth of agencies boom in recent years.
This is especially the case when there are more job openings than qualified people to fill them. Good recruitment agencies can be great value for money if they are able to bring scarce skills and talent that companies wouldn't be able to find themselves.
For a long time, it was significantly more difficult to get a mining job without an agency and companies found they weren't finding the right people without one. As a result, agencies were all powerful and popping up just about everywhere, promising to find candidates the best role and to find companies the best candidate.
However, it's not just mining companies using recruitment agencies. Employees working in the industry have been caught in the struggle of wanting a job within the mining industry but having to go through a recruitment agency to get one. As an employer for Xstrata points out:
"There's an attitude out there where people say 'don't even bother applying for mining jobs if you're not going through an agency' ".
The employer, who doesn't wish to be named, says he experienced some tough times when he recently found himself out of work. Not coming from a traditional mining background meant that he didn't have the high level of skill sets required for most jobs and was having no luck, but, persistence paid off in the end. Using social media and word of mouth, he was eventually offered a position.
"Sometimes, persistence and a good resume can really stand out when applying for jobs. Rather than going through an agency, a lot of blokes are going it alone and scoring jobs on their own. I think the perception has shifted in that regard."
This sentiment and growing angst over not being able to find work is becoming a common theme in the mining industry. Both skilled and unskilled candidates who wish to gain employment in the industry have written to us here at Australian Mining. We have had countless stories from workers who are qualified, but who are unable to find a job, whether going through an agency or otherwise. Accounts have also flooded in from workers who would like to skill-up but don't know where to begin or exactly what they will need to succeed. Many are also feeling frustrated over the lack of training offered by both agencies and companies.
This frustration only grows when agencies are demanding exorbitant fees and people feel they are overpromising and under delivering.
As one disgruntled miner wrote recently: "To date I have not received one actual contact from any of them (six recruitment companies in total, approx 15 positions applied for), nor have I even had an acknowledgement of submission of my application by way of a letter or phone call."
"It is very disappointing to find that after 15 months in the industry, working as a functional part of a mining company that I am having SO much trouble securing another position," he stated.
Anastasia Arkouzis from recruitment agency Ivy and Cube says that managing expectations with clients is key in the recruitment process.
"One thing all recruiters have to be aware of is communication. It's important to manage people's expectations, be results-orientated and ethical in the recruitment process," she told Australian Mining.
With accounts like these, recruitment agencies are starting to be the second choice for workers who are now seeing the benefit of going it alone. Furthermore, companies have caught on to the smarts of agencies and are using it to their advantage by implementing recruiting processes of their own.
The recruitment push in April by Rio Tinto is a way in which companies are starting to shift away from the traditional approach of relying on recruitment agencies. The campaign, which is still running, is offering up to 6000 jobs across all fields in the industry. Looking to employ tradespeople, engineers, planners, project professionals, geologists and operators, it is the largest recruitment drive in Australian history. So large in fact, that Rio Tinto set up their own hotline for people interested in gaining more information. This push by Rio Tinto has not gone unnoticed by agencies and employees alike.
Similarly, others companies are following suit by offering grad programs, training services, and more opportunities for minority groups such as indigenous people than ever before.
With rise of company-dedicated job boards and the money to push jobs out to the masses through advertising, branding and social media, mining companies have been pushing to have roles filled from within rather than approaching an agency to do it for them. Some see this as the start of the end for recruitment agencies while others are more optimistic about the future.
Arkouzis said the need for agencies is still important, but stated only the best will survive the squeeze from companies doing it for themselves.
"Only the best and most innovative recruitment agencies who are pushing out into the community and who continue to find ways to grow will do well in this environment. They need to deliver on their promises, find the best candidates and be trusted."
Arkouzis says Ivy and Cube is growing from strength to strength within the mining industry with an impressive list of clients. She attributes this success to the ways her company is innovating within the recruitment space. Using social media engagement, creating 'talent pools' and communicating effectively are all ways in which she claims her agency is staying ahead of the game.
"We are out there in the industry helping companies find people who are skilled, are in for the long-term and it all works out like it should."
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So, guys and gals, pabutihan nyo ang mga resume nyo! And then, apply direct. As always, beware of unscupulous recruitment agencies!!!!! :) ;)
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how are you, dawg?
doin' good, as usual. how was your 4th of July? ;) :) 8)
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Sydney Morning Herald 12:34PM Sunday Jul 08, 2012 by Scott Hannaford
THE mining boom may be pouring billions into the Australian economy, but it appears to be leaving women behind.
New data reveals a growing pay divide between men and women in several industries.
A Fairfax analysis of wage data from the past 17 years shows Canberra as the best place in Australia for women seeking equal pay.
But more than a decade of affirmative action nationally has failed to make a significant dent in the pay gap, with women across the board on average 17.4 per cent - or $13,026 a year - worse off than men in the same jobs, virtually unchanged from 1996.
In New South Wales women were being paid 13.7 per cent less than men in 2012, and in Victoria it was 16.2 per cent, according the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
While women's wages have risen over time, in many sectors men's have risen faster. Of the industries with the largest pay gap, mining topped the list as of February.
Women in mining earn about $35,000 a year less than men. In the big mineral states of Western Australia and Queensland, women were least likely to get equal pay.
According to Miriam Stanborough, of the Women in Mining Network - a branch of the Minerals Institute AusIMM - the gap gets worse the higher women climb up the corporate ladder.
A survey of institute members found that women in the top pay bracket were earning about 24 per cent less than men, but that could be changing, she said.
''What we've found is that women tend to step back from more senior or demanding roles when they reach child-bearing age, and re-entering the workforce later can be challenging. And it is true that women can sideline their careers if they're not careful.''
A 2006 Minerals Council of Australia survey found women were much more likely to leave the industry when they reached 34, and programs aimed at women needed to focus on keeping them. Women working in finance and insurance, health care and social assistance, and professional, scientific and technical services, were also the most likely to be paid significantly less than men in the same job. By contrast, the lowest-paid sector of accommodation and food services had the smallest pay gap of $4305.
Federal Parliament is considering a law that would make companies with more than 100 employees report on gender pay issues and flexible work to the Women in the Workforce Agency.
Last year's census also showed an increase in women earning more than their male partners.
The University of Sydney's business school professor of employment relations, Marian Baird, said women's contributions were traditionally undervalued, and some discrimination remained.
''The motherhood factor does contribute to the gap as well, but could be rectified over the longer term,'' she said.
''It can be reduced, and the new Gender Equality in the Workplace legislation will help this, making employers more responsible for recognising their company gaps and responding to industry benchmarks. Information about pay is essential to understand where the gaps are.''
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doin' good, as usual. how was your 4th of July? ;) :) 8)
nagpapaputok!
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Perth Now AAP July 11, 2012 9:00AM
FLY-IN, fly-out (FIFO) mine workers aren't in it just for the big bucks, a study shows.
Researchers at Perth's Edith Cowan University School of Management said they were surprised to discover FIFO workers were more concerned with job satisfaction, training and workforce camaraderie than high salaries.
Asked to rate these factors on a scale of one to five, with five being the highest score, survey respondents ranked getting along with colleagues as most important, with a score of 4.52.
Research leader Alan Brown said the results were not what the team had expected and went against public perception that FIFO workers were only in it for the money.
"Our initial findings have shown that many people enter into this type of employment with a long-term career goal," Professor Brown said.
"Money is not the driving factor we thought it would be.
"In fact, FIFO work is seen as an opportunity to further develop careers within the mining industry."
He said employers who wanted to attract and retain FIFO workers needed to focus on training and development, and provide a positive working environment.
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Australian Mining 11 July, 2012 Andrew Duffy
The mining and oil and gas industries have confirmed their spot at the top of Australia's wage scale, according to the latest Hay Group salary index.
According to the report mining and oil and gas wages have been commanding premiums up to 35.5 per cent higher than average wages.
In regional Western Australia salaries are the highest, coming in 16.8 per cent above the market average.
Behind WA Hay Group said regional Queensland and South Australia came a "distant second and third" commanding salaries 1.83 per cent and 1.03 per cent above average.
Hay Group senior consultant Steven Paola said in a statement the resources boom was driving strong growth in mining wages and demand for workers was high.
"The continued minerals boom has resulted in high demand for key skilled roles that subsequently attract a pay premium in regional areas such as in Western Australia," he said.
Paola also said the pay gap between mining and other sectors of the economy had "widened dramatically".
The report marked mining and petroleum engineers, construction project managers, and exploration specialists as some of the hottest jobs commanding the highest salaries.
Overall Hay Group said Australians outside the mining sector could expect a four per cent pay rise in 2012, with mining and oil and gas workers expecting a 6.3 per cent rise.
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sana ma try to ng iba dyan!
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Kaya nga naghanap abroad kasi either unavailable here or available but very few and very expensive. Power struggle between the businessman and the laborer. More profit for the businessman vs higher wage for the labourer.
As the mining magnate Gina Rinehart pointed it out, Herald Sun Rebecca Lawson From: PerthNow July 05, 2012 2:38PM
MINING magnate Gina Rinehart says Australia needs to act quickly on its high business costs or risk losing its $1 trillion investment pipeline, which is already being squeezed.
With growing evidence that Australia is becoming “too expensive and too uncompetitive” to do export-oriented business, such as mining, the billionaire also said the Federal Government’s carbon and mining taxes were not helping.
In her regular monthly column in the Australian Resources and Investments magazine, out today, Mrs Rinehart acknowledged that what was before argued as self-serving interests, the issue of high costs was now becoming an “accepted truth”.
She pointed to various economic reports and comments from business leaders from around the world that showed Australia had fallen in business competitiveness due to regulatory burdens, productivity issues and high costs, such as labour.
Australia’s labour costs, she said, were 35 per cent higher compared to the United States’ Gulf Coast, which has a big oil and gas industry.
“These challenges are now beyond serious dispute,” Mrs Rinehart writes.
“To point them out is, I hope, no longer a sign of self-interest, but a duty, and a call for action.”
Mrs Rinehart pointed to a recent report which said the country’s near $1 trillion investment pipeline was under pressure, showed Australia could not “ignore how dependent we now are on that pipeline”.
“This pipeline is primarily, not only, supported by multinationals, and we should never forget that these multinationals are multinationals, with other investment opportunities offshore,” Mrs Rinehart said.
“Productivity problems, labour shortages and approval costs and delays are to blame, so it is heartening that we’re finally moving from arguing about such things to realising we need to fix them.”
Mrs Rinehart said while she had other investment options around the globe, her goal was to create sustainable jobs in Australia.
She also said she was pleased the Federal Government had approved the Enterprise Migration Agreement for Hancock Prospecting’s $9.5 billion Roy Hill project in the Pilbara, with details on the deal yet to be finalised.
“Here is a potential agreement that will not only help business, but will help the nation,” she said.
“The 1715 temporary skilled overseas workers for the remote, hot Pilbara are actually just a small fraction of the 100,000 such workers entering Australia each year.”
She said the EMA will give her company the guaranteed labour required for Roy Hill, which will provide 6700 jobs for Australians during construction and more than 1000 during the mine’s operation.
“These are sustainable jobs that won’t exist unless we can get sufficient labour for construction and bank loans for debt finance; however, banks need to be assured before providing money that we can get sufficient labour.” :) ;)
This is where the Pinoy back home has the advantage – cheap labour. Especially when the company has yet to train the unskilled worker.
The other thing is his eagerness to mingle with foreigners. Easily assimilates especially with puti. Many other nationals are somewhat clannish. Aussies, especially those working in the mines, also put great importance in one’s sense of camaraderie. Perth Now AAP July 11, 2012 9:00AM
FLY-IN, fly-out (FIFO) mine workers aren't in it just for the big bucks, a study shows.
Researchers at Perth's Edith Cowan University School of Management said they were surprised to discover FIFO workers were more concerned with job satisfaction, training and workforce camaraderie than high salaries.
Asked to rate these factors on a scale of one to five, with five being the highest score, survey respondents ranked getting along with colleagues as most important, with a score of 4.52.
Research leader Alan Brown said the results were not what the team had expected and went against public perception that FIFO workers were only in it for the money.
"Our initial findings have shown that many people enter into this type of employment with a long-term career goal," Professor Brown said.
"Money is not the driving factor we thought it would be.
"In fact, FIFO work is seen as an opportunity to further develop careers within the mining industry."
He said employers who wanted to attract and retain FIFO workers needed to focus on training and development, and provide a positive working environment.
Sa tingin ko, why many people back home are reluctant 'coz it's not in the world of glitz and glamour. People working in the mines are obscure in their labour. It's the rugged path towards prosperity and freedom. :) ;)
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9NEWS 18:54 AEST Fri Jul 13 2012 Cortlan Bennett
If Australians don't want high-paid mining jobs they shouldn't hold back the nation by opposing imported labour, federal resources minister Martin Ferguson says.
Asked why the federal government's $3000-$9000 incentives for skilled workers to relocate to remote areas appeared to be failing, Mr Ferguson told AAP in Perth on Friday it was personal choice.
"Those who are in a position, who are hungry for a job, will chase it," he said.
"Other people, they're at a point in their life where they're not hungry for these high-paying jobs.
"They're content to retire early or to work part-time."
But if workers didn't want to move, they shouldn't complain about efforts to address the nation's skills shortage, Mr Ferguson said.
"If those people don't want to come and work on projects such as Gorgon or Roy Hill or the iron ore expansion of Rio or BHP, then don't deny Australia the opportunity to actually grab the export earnings through bringing in the shortage of labour required from overseas."
The minister dismissed union claims that resource companies simply wanted to import cheap labour, saying overseas workers were entitled to Australian wages and conditions.
"Bringing in these selected workers from overseas is more costly than employing Australians, but our problem is we do not have Australians in some of these specialised skills.
"What we're doing is in the best interest of Australia - it's about keeping these projects in Australia.
"If we don't supply the labour, the capital investment will go to other countries, and Australia will lose out."
Mr Ferguson said his government had invested heavily in skills training in recent years, but workers still needed relevant experience to be in demand.
He blamed the current skills shortage on the previous Liberal government, saying it had failed to invest in training and infrastructure.
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go go go na tayong mga pinoy please lang po
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9NEWS 18:54 AEST Fri Jul 13 2012 Cortlan Bennett
"Other people, they're at a point in their life where they're not hungry for these high-paying jobs.
"They're content to retire early or to work part-time."
Yep, me is one of these Aussie blokes. Unsa-on ma na nako ang kuarta? Di ma na nako madala sa la-ing kalibutan?
Different if have wife and child. Would work in the mine. Live in a senior staff housing. Take turns with wife looking after the baby on a roster-in/roster-out [riro] arrangement with the company.
If she's one like Zulacs, riro will be merely formality. To make people in the office feel our presence. 'coz, with a laptop, we can work anywhere and anytime. :) ;)
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go go go na tayong mga pinoy please lang po
Remains to be seen. Perhaps, you have inside info of exodus being planned. If so, what's the status? Can hardly wait for lovely young Pinays to come here. Hehehe. :) ;)
Whatever, not interested in Pinoys. Lovely smart young Pinays ang gusto ko. :D ;)
Think should organize a lobby to accept Pinays only. Ages must be below 25. To maximize chances of producing healthier and longer-living offspring must marry much older Aussie blokes. Paramount consideration for issuing visas is on mandatory contribution towards saving Aus's endangered species. ;D :D :) ;)
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Australian Mining 17 July, 2012 Andrew Duffy
Census statistics show mining towns, particularly in the Pilbara, are now the highest earning regions in Australia.
Apart from Forrest, in the Australian Capital Territory, the Pilbara areas of Karratha, Newman, Port Hedland and South Hedland are the richest regions in the nation.
Suburbs of the ACT have always reported high earnings because of the presence of senior public servants.
Outside WA the Queensland town of Moranbah, benefiting from the Bowen Basin's booming coal industry, and Roxby Downs in South Australia, near BHP's Olympic Dam development, also make an appearance in the top ten.
Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory rounds out the richest 20, and is the NT's only region to make the listing, leveraging off the area's bauxite mining industry.
The Census Stats blog writes at a median of 32, the average age of rich mining towns is around eight years younger than top earning non-mining regions.
"It looks like Australia's mining boom is fuelling a generation of wealthy, young Australian residents," it says.
:) ;)
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it's not easy to apply these days, they need a 1 million guarantee deposit
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it's not easy to apply these days, they need a 1 million guarantee deposit
??? It's a bond. Not a deposit. Refundable upon returning. To keep from going on tnt. But heard the amount was AUS$7,000. ::) :-\
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The Chronicle Owen Jacques | 24th July 2012 10:00 AM
REPORTS forecasting the death of Australia's mining boom are greatly exaggerated.
Forecasts that investment in new mine projects had reached its peak came from the Deloitte Access Economics report released on Monday, prompting claims Australia's resources industry may be on the slide within two years.
It stated, "The peak of the project pipeline is already in sight, meaning the key prop to the faster part of Australia's two-speed economy is looking less certain the further out you look - though there's still enough gas in the tank of huge resource projects to provide handy pipeline protection if Europe were to turn pear-shaped".
However, the Deloitte Access report went on to celebrate the success of the industry's success so far, even going as far to say there was "a deluge of dollars to come" from more mining investment.
For the industry as a whole, the report was even more positive.
"At the same time some sectors are still making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, with the stupendous strength in engineering work keeping the wider construction sector afloat," it said.
"And others still are just downright booming, with mining production growing at double digit rates (its fastest growth in more than two decades)."
Queensland Resource Council chief Michael Roche said demand for resources had slipped thanks to global financial concerns, plus historically high prices lured new exporters in the form of Mongolia and Mozambique amongst others.
"Australia's best path is to steer the middle ground by maintaining its reputations for reliability and quality, substituting volume for price," he said.
The latest challenge for the industry is that the high price of doing business in Australia and falling productivity could make that difficult.
Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan remained upbeat, spruiking the "half a trillion dollars" in projects planned nationally.
"Around half of that is already committed spending," Mr Swan said.
In Queensland alone there are 29 mining projects under construction and another 101 on the drawing board.
The federal Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics report from July also outlined the strength of the industry, drawing an upwardly sloping line for the industry to 2025.
The quango's report found energy coal and gas exports would almost double and metal-making coal exports will grow by one-third in less than 15 years.
It still represented incredible growth in a sector with a reputation for already growing too large to find enough workers.
In June, BREE resource manager said a delay in mining investment was not necessarily a sign to worry.
"If there are 29 under construction, then to maintain that flow of employment, we would have to continue activity at that level," he said.
"You would not want 100 more projects added to the current amount already under construction."
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sana ma try to ng iba dyan!
No, skipper. Doubt that my posts will create an influx of Filipino workers to meet this massive mining demand. Can see a gloomy outlook. :( ;)
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Surely, many people back home are leading a humdrum existence. Sick and tired of being overworked and underpaid. Wanting a change in their jobs. But, then again, mining is not a world of glitz and glamour. Instead, it is the rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
Mao ma ng kina-iya sa ato. Bahala nag patay-gutom. Basta sikat. Espoting pirme. :) ;) “Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom. (Pres. Obama)”
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it's not easy to apply these days, they need a 1 million guarantee deposit
Believe this is a scam. Australia badly needs workers. This kind of amount will only be a disincentive. Once again, beware of unscrupulous recruitment agencies!!!!! :) ;)
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Business Spectator Published 3:30 PM, 27 Jul 2012
AAP
The Chinese economy may be slowing but Australia's mining and resources boom is not over by a long shot.
China's economic growth rate is forecast to slow from the levels of nine or 10 per cent seen in previous years but is still expected to stay above eight per cent in 2012 and 2013.
By comparison, Australia has only been to achieve growth above four per cent twice in the past decade, one being the first quarter of 2012.
HSBC chief economist for Australia and New Zealand Paul Bloxham expects Australia to post economic growth of 3.3 per cent through 2012 and 3.5 per cent in 2013.
"It's still the case that mining investment is going to be a key contributor to GDP growth this year and next year," he said.
"We're past the point where commodity prices have continued to give the economy a free kick and boost incomes but we still have a couple more stages to come from the mining story."
It is generally accepted that there are three stages to the mining and resources boom.
The first stage is a large surge in commodity prices.
"The second is that the high level of commodity prices leads to a large amount of investment in commodities.
The third stage will be when the investment comes on line and starts producing exports.
Mr Bloxham said Australia was part of the way through the second stage.
"Then there is the third stage where export volumes start to come on line that still hasn't ramped up yet, we still have more export volumes to come."
Beyond 2013, Mr Bloxham said Australia still had many projects yet to go into production, the largest being the $43 billion Gorgon Gas project in Western Australia.
It is under construction, with the first liquefied natural gas sales expected in 2014.
Commonwealth Bank chief economist Michael Blythe said the boom looks set in concrete given the number projects in the pipeline.
"The bigger issue is projects currently under consideration that would normally take up the slack as existing schemes wind down," Mr Blythe said.
"There will be an offset. As the construction phase winds down, the export phase should ramp up. And imports of capital goods tied in with mining capital expenditure should fall."
Mr Blythe said the prices of Australia's mineral and energy exports won't be as high as previous years but they were not going to fall too far.
"Even if the rapid growth phase of the commodity price adjustment is over, there will be an enduring gift left for the Australian economy," he said.
"The average level of commodity prices will be higher than otherwise."
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Rhiannon Hoyle From: Dow Jones Newswires July 27, 2012 4:23PM
AUSTRALIA'S economy will be fuelled by continuing investment in mining and a ramp-up of raw-materials exports in coming years, HSBC Bank Australia's chief economist Paul Bloxham said, dismissing concern the nation's resources boom may be close to peaking.
Jitters over the outlook for the country's mining industry have intensified recently as the price of commodities - including iron ore and coal -has dropped, squeezing the profits of some resources companies.
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it's not easy to apply these days, they need a 1 million guarantee deposit
Believe this is a scam. Australia badly needs workers. This kind of amount will only be a disincentive. Once again, beware of unscrupulous recruitment agencies!!!!! :) ;)
June 16, 2008 | Filed under: Employment,Global Fil.,Immigration | Posted by: Philippine Consulate General Sydney
AN APPARENT SKILLS SHORTAGE is driving Australian companies to hire skilled workers from other countries, and the Philippines is seen as a source country for needed workers. Filipinos seeking overseas work will find Australia a good prospect, but they are warned to beware of illegal recruiters.
The Philippine Consulate General in Sydney received reports of individuals posing as recruiters victimizing Filipinos who wish to work in Australia, following news reports in the Philippines in January 2008 that Australia has 120,000 job openings available to foreigners, especially Filipinos.
Filipinos being recruited for Australia must be aware of the type of visa that their recruiter is applying for them. The type of visa commonly issued to Filipinos hired for work in Australia is the “457 Visa”.
Australian companies who wish to recruit skilled workers must be permitted to do so by the Australian Government. The Government issues to these companies a “Temporary Business Long Stay Visa”, which is also known as the “Standard Business Sponsorship Subclass 457 Visa” or the “457 Visa”, which is then provided to the foreigner workers they employ.
These authorized companies can either directly hire Filipino workers or employ a POEA-accredited manpower agency.
A Filipino who is recruited for Australian employment is matched to an Australian company that has been issued a 457 Visa. The Filipino worker receives the 457 Visa through the Australian Embassy in Manila.
The 457 Visa allows a foreigner temporary long stay for work purposes for a period of six months to four years. This visa does not give permanent residency or migration status.
The Philippine Consulate General in Sydney cautions potential workers for Australia against unlicensed manpower agencies or unauthorized Australian companies who illegally recruit Filipino workers. Illegally-hired foreign workers in Australia are exposed to abuses, hazards, and risks. If they are caught, they are deported and blacklisted from future re-entry into Australia.
The following are signs that a job applicant is being recruited illegally:
* If a recruiter offers long-term work but does not apply the candidate for a 457 Visa, then it may be an indication that the work is not legitimate or that the employment arrangements are not in order.
* If a recruiter offers long-term work but applies the applicant for a Short-Stay Business Visa (also called the “456 Visa”), then it may be an indication that the work is not legitimate or that the employment arrangements are not in order. A 456 visa allows entry for business meetings, or conference- or training-related visits and allows a stay of up to three months. Short-term work of up to six weeks is only permitted in strictly limited circumstances.
* If a recruiter offers long-term work but applies the job applicant only for tourist visa, then it is a definite indication that the work arrangement is not legitimate. Illegal recruiters often apply a victim for a tourist or short stay business visa, and instruct the latter to change his visa status to a long stay or even a permanent residency in Australia. However, such status changes are not usually allowed.
* If a recruiter makes the applicant pay for Australian administrative fees and/or air travel to Australia, then the recruiter is violating Australian laws require a company to shoulder all costs of fees and the worker’s air travel to Australia. The worker must not pay for his air travel to Australia.
Any Filipino, who was recruited to work in Australia under a 457 Business Visa program and was compelled to pay processing fees or air travel to Australia by their recruiter or employer, may lodge a complaint with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) through email address [email protected].
Finally, Philippine Consul General Maria Theresa P. Lazaro emphasized that Australia does not allow the recruitment of domestic maids and farm workers from overseas. Any manpower agency that claims to be recruiting maids and farm workers for Australia is deceiving applicants.
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Australian Mining 20 August, 2012 Andrew Duffy
Labour specialist Cape Australia has plans to import 2062 foreign tradespeople to fill empty mining jobs in Western Australia.
The Sunday Times reports most of the international talent will fill roles on the North West Shelf, where Chevron is developing large natural gas projects.
The Sunday Times reports BHP Billiton, Fortescue Metals Group, and Rio Tinto are also expected to make use of the labour.
Cape's plan is the latest in a growing trend of companies looking overseas to fill empty resources jobs.
Officials from the Immigration Department told The Sunday Times Cape's plan for 2062 workers was "much greater than any previous labour agreement submission the Department has received".
While the application has not yet received Government approval the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union said it "ought to be rejected out of hand".
The CFMEU has previously led protests against the use of enterprise migration agreements in the mining industry, and has targeted Chevron and Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill project for using foreign workers.
Australian Mining has reached out to BHP and Rio about their plans to use Cape's international labour, and we'll update the story as responses come through.
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Australian Mining 20 August, 2012 Andrew Duffy
An increasing amount of fly-in fly-out workers are having trouble coping with the lifestyle pressure of mining, and companies are now turning to less experienced staff to fill the gap.
AAP reports recruitment firm Hays said it was receiving more feedback that FIFO mining workers weren't coping with living away from home.
Hays also said workers were finding it difficult to live with the limited services and amenities provided at remote camps.
While there were still some employees capable of working in the harsh conditions Hays officials told AAP that FIFO work was not something that should be chosen "just for the money".
In its latest economic roundup Treasury reported mining firms were still experiencing acute skills shortages, particularly in specialised fields.
"In some cases, there were reports that this could lead to either sourcing less experienced staff or breaking up contract work into smaller parts," it said.
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I've met a couple of engineers who've heard about it. ;) :) 8)
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Yep. Importing cheap labour from 3rd world countries like Philippines is the way to go for Australian mining companies to get their badly needed workforce. Only people desperate for money would be willing to work in the mines. Train them if they have little or no experience. Albeit the training cost, still comes out less expensive than hiring an Aussie.
As mining tycoon Gina Rinehart pointed it out,
Andrew Burrell From: The Australian August 02, 2012 12:00AM
Mrs Rinehart posted a message on the Roy Hill website last week saying the equity partners had put their faith in the Roy Hill project "at a time of continuing economic uncertainty and knowing Australia is one of the highest cost countries in the world".
"We are very fortunate our partners proceeded to invest substantially in our project, instead of low-cost projects in Africa, which also have large untapped iron ore resources," she said.
The billionaire admitted in June that rising costs were making it difficult to raise finance for Roy Hill, of which she owns 70 per cent. Mrs Rinehart also told the ABC's Four Corners program that her public legal dispute with three of her four adult children had hindered the project.
Roy Hill chief executive Barry Fitzgerald said in Perth last month the company was still aiming to secure funding by the end of the year.
A clash between mine workers insisting on higher wages vs mining companies wanting to maximize profits.
Also helps the developing nations. As Australian MP Andrew Leigh said,
14 August 2012
He added that there would also be significant benefits to developing nations if their nationals worked in Australia on resources projects using 457 visas. He cited the research of Harvard economist Dani Rodrick who claims that guest-worker programmes are as important for helping people in low income countries as trade and aid, to say nothing of the transfer of vital skills.
And people back home are certainly much better off working here than in closed middle east countries and, perhaps, elsewhere.
Know what it's like to live in the mines, mate. Been working there 30 years ago. But things are different now. The government is seriously doing something about it. Improving mining town living. E.g., turning Karratha into a world class city. It has to. No ore mined means no revenue.
It doesn't want what happened 30 years ago will recur. When Brazil's giant ore mine started operating, Australia's major buyers, viz., Korea and Japan, simply went there. Australia was an unreliable source due to industrial relations problems. Everyday there was an impending labour strike. Which usually happened during ship loading. Upsetting customer schedule. Hehehe. :) ;)
By the way, USA is also a 3rd world country. Hehehe. :) ;) Poor Uncle Sam's current debt is $ 15,871,638,684,393 :o. No wonder, Yankees are looking for work in Australian mines. ;D :D :) ;)
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LAUREN WILSON From: The Australian August 26, 2012 1:16PM
AUSTRALIA'S mining boom is "not even halfway through" a senior minister said, as Labor moved to reassure the public over the nation's resources future.
Trade Minister Craig Emerson said there was a lot of mining investment in the pipeline.
“We're not even half way though it,” told ABC TV's Insiders program.
“What we are seeing is prices come off a bit from very high levels, but we still have more than half the investment to go and we've got the production to come on stream so that is very good news for Australians,” Dr Emerson said.
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten said he did not accept “at all” that mining would cease to make an important contribution to the economy.
The comments came after Resources Minister Martin Ferguson last week declared “the resources boom is over”, as BHP Billiton decided to shelve the Olympic Dam mine expansion.
Mr Shorten told the Ten Network's Meet the Press that while commodity prices were easing off, his department had projected that another 100,000 jobs would be created in the mining industry over the next five years.
“The point is that Mr Ferguson is right, we might have reached the peak in prices, but the other point beyond that is the volumes are still increasing and there are still plenty of projects,” he said.
“I don't think that the contribution that mining is going to make in jobs and economic output for Australia has at all peaked.”
But the Coalition's small business spokesman Bruce Billson said the mining tax and the carbon tax were impacting on the investment decisions of mining companies.
“The Gillard government wanted to take some momentum out of mining, that was their policy purpose,” Mr Billson told Sky News's Australian Agenda.
Tony Abbott last week sought to blame the carbon and mining taxes for the Olympic dam decision, even though neither were mentioned in BHP's statement of explanation.
“With 100 per cent certainty the decision to postpone that project had nothing to do with the mining tax as Mr Abbott falsely asserted,” Dr Emerson said today.
But Mr Billson said BHP had carefully crafted its statement not to blame the mining or carbon taxes because it was wary of Labor.
“Mindful that Labor has this form of going after people if they say things that are critical,” Mr Billson said.
“They know that if they say things that the government doesn't like ... you've seen the way the government reacts.”
Mr Billson said the South Australian Labor party had almost had a “hissy fit” about the decision and said BHP had to regain trust after the decision.
“What you see is this pattern of the critics of Labor become the targets of their venom.”
Additional reporting: AAP
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Just want to add something, ...
More than 2/3 of WA is yet to be explored. :) ;)
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??? It's a bond. Not a deposit. Refundable upon returning. To keep from going on tnt. But heard the amount was AUS$7,000. ::) :-\
ay bond pala, ang mahal pala no?
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Just gossips heard from o/s coeds. But that was before the trend in hiring foreign workers. Dunno how mining companies handle this. Best to ask the people concerned. :) ;)
People from all over the world are looking to go down-under in the Australian out-back to snatch up a piece of the mining boom pie. While the economy drains in most industries, the Australian mining industry thrives. There are mining jobs opening up all over Australia, particularly in Western Australia and Queensland. Mine companies are open to hiring people from all different backgrounds, from natives to foreigners, skilled to straight-out-of-school. Mining jobs for foriegners never looked so good.
Since there are so many mine sites throughout Australia, there's a lot of selection for those interested in mining jobs for foriegners. Employers generally pay for all flights to the site and back to your home. There is a large array of positions available for different backgrounds and skills. Many entry-level positions pay over $100.000 AU a year for workers, such as the dump truck driver positions. Some other well-paid positions include:
- Heavy equipment operation
- Labouring
- Dump Truck operation
- Administration
- Traineeships/ Apprenticeships
- Geology
Many other jobs are available depending on the mine site you're keen to work on. Many of those interested in mining jobs for foreigners take kindly to mine sites located in Port Hedland, Mackay, Kalgoorlie, Olympic Dam, Mount Isa, and Argyle. Before hopping on a plane over to Australia, it's good to be sure that you are prepared for the job title you seek. You'll want to know:
- What licenses you'll need.
- If there are traineeships available.
- What Visa is required to work in Australia, and how to get it.
- Whether you need mining experience.
- The training required and where to get it.
- The certifications that are required.
- The soonest you can start mining.
You can save time and money by understanding what is expected in the mining industry before applying for mining jobs for foreigners. You'll want to consider where mine sites are located, who to contact about work, and the different job titles available. Securing a job prior to moving to Australia is a much safer financial move than flying over and looking for a job, because the mining industry is very competitive. Now is the perfect time to join the industry, but you'll want to know how to nail the job before job hunting.
If you have any questions on Australia Jobs Mining Jobs For Foriegners or about other employment in the industry, click http://www.australia-mining.com/jobs-mining-jobs-for-foriegners.html (http://www.australia-mining.com/jobs-mining-jobs-for-foriegners.html)
:) ;)
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sana ma recover nila ang bond
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Believe that bond is applied only to those who belong to the high risk category for becoming tnt, e.g., o/s students.
Not so with o/s workers. Why would they do that? Can they earn more working as tnt? ??? ;)
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Newsflash!!!!! 30,000 LNG jobs created in Queensland.
Could start as a plumber/gasfitter. Speaking of women, Zulacs is a Master Plumber.
:) ;)
Posted: 17/09/2012 5:00:00 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Job-seekers, Construction
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Plumbers and gasfitters are in high demand throughout Australia, both in the resources industry and construction sector. Anyone with training in plumbing has the opportunity for a diverse career across a broad section of industries in every location in the nation.
Ross Ingham, aged 31, became a plumber and gasfitter after doing a plumbing apprenticeship. As a mature-aged student, he had a few adjustments to make but graduated with a Certificate III in Plumbing. He was a finalist in the ACT Training Awards and now works with his own plumbing apprentice.
“Doing an apprenticeship is rewarding or beyond rewarding,” Ross says.
“The rewards at the end are overwhelming.”
How you can become a plumber
The best way to find information about becoming a plumber and starting a plumbing career is to visit the Master Plumbers and Gasfitters Association website. You’ll find excellent information about career pathways and apprenticeships. If you’re in Western Australia, MPA Skills is an RTO (registered training organisation) focused on building successful plumbers and painters.
Alternatively, read our Plumbing article in the Construction section of the Careers and Industry Guide.
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Australian Mining 18 June, 2013 Vicky Validakis
As Queensland’s CSG and LNG sector ramps up to meet first export, the industry now employs close to 30,000 people and is worth than $60 billion plus in investment.
Opening Arrow Energy’s new headquarters in Brisbane yesterday, Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning Jeff Seeney said the figures were positive as the state’s CSG/LNG projects moved from concept their first delivery of LNG overseas.
“The three Queensland LNG plants on Curtis Island are world-firsts for converting coal seam gas to liquefied natural gas for export and at a time of global uncertainty this industry has been the driving force behind growth in our great state,” Seeney said.
“This $60 billion-plus of investment is flowing throughout the state and transforming regional communities.
Seeney said as work to finish the projects on Curtis Island pushed ahead, the three companies operating the LNG plants continued to invest billions of dollars.
“…QGC and its contractors currently employ 11,600 people and since January 2010 has spent $12 billion in Australia. Of this, $9.6 billion was spent here in Queensland.
“Direct and indirect employees at the APLNG project total 10,100 at the end of April this year.
“APLNG has estimated that at last December its global spend was $10 billion, with around $6.9 billion spent in Queensland.”
“Santos’ GLNG project has created in the order of 6,800 jobs, and has spent $6 billion in Australia, of which $4 billion was in Queensland.”
Seeney said Arrow provided more than 1250 jobs for Queensland and used around 2000 contractors, on top of the three LNG plants, through its domestic gas and power generation and its CSG/LNG aspirations.
He said the CSG/LNG industry was building a highly skilled workforce which continued to deliver on large resource projects.
“The expertise of these workers will provide newly-honed skills that can transfer to other major developments in Queensland in the future,” he said.
“The CSG/LNG industry is a crucial driver in getting the Queensland economy back on track.”
It is estimated that the LNG boom in Australia will lift Australia from the fourth largest LNG producer to the first, knocking Qatar off its perch.
In Queensland the three projects currently under construction are expected to produce 28.8 Mtpa of LNG, with the first shipment expected late next year.
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very interesting
Pass the word to Felix, mate. Hehehe. :) ;)
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Australia’s hospitality and tourism industry is so short staffed the government needs to import 36,000 cooks, waiters and bartenders immediately
It is also looking for another 56,000 workers by 2015, according to Immigration Minister Chris Bowen. Under a new federal plan, tourism and hospitality employers would be able to bring in workers on a two to three year visa similar to the 457 visa program widely used in the mining sector. The vacancies are caused by a number of factors; chief amongst which is the reluctance of Australians to do “menial”jobs.
Experts say high-paying mining jobs are luring young Australian workers from traditional fields such as retail and hospitality, while others would rather go on the dole than muck in and do certain jobs themselves.
“I hate to say it but there seems to be a sense of entitlement among younger Australians,” Tourism Accommodation Australia boss Rodger Powell said.
“They believe jobs in the service industry are too menial or too low paid and they have been brought up to believe they are destined for something better instead of starting from the bottom and working their way up as generations did before them.” :) ;)
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very interesting
Mate, please pass this info to lovely young Pinays!
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Never mind the boys. Me no interest in them at all.
:P ;D
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by Ray Clancy on September 23, 2013 in Australia Immigration
The new government in Australia has still to indicate where it stands on recent changes to the 457 visa programme which have sparked a debate over whether it means less jobs for Australians.
Access to the 457 visa, the most commonly used visa stream for temporary overseas workers, has become tighter amid claims that it was being misused by employers.
The Migration Council of Australia says 457 visas finds that play a critical role in securing foreign investment and enabling growth and that it is a programme that helps create Australian jobs.
The MCA’s recent report ‘More than Temporary’ stated that the 457 programme is one that the government should be rightly proud of. A survey of 3,800 visa holders found that 76% of visa holders help to train and develop Australian workers.
‘Four out of five multinational companies are using 457 visa holders to train and develop Australian workers, the survey results reinforce that skills transfer and knowledge from 457 visa holders play an important role in building Australia’s human capital,’ said Carla Wilshire, chief executive officer of the MCA.
She pointed out that the findings show that the 457 visa programme is critical in keeping Australia competitive in an era when industry is global and 98% of innovation happens outside of Australia.
‘Temporary migration does not just fill skills shortages, it addresses skills deficits and plays a central part in workplace development at the enterprise level. The report also confirms that 85% of employers are satisfied with the scheme and that most employers are using the programme to fill skills shortages,’ Wilshire explained.
The report did identify some compliance issues pointing to the need to strengthen the monitoring framework and Wilshire said it is concerning that 2% of the programme reported incomes less than the threshold income set by regulation. The MCA recommends that a price signal be introduced to encourage business to hire Australian workers, providing funds to beef up compliance efforts and provide services to 457 workers in need.
‘While the vast majority of 457 visa holders indicated they were settling into Australia well, the focus needs to be on spouses and dependents. Having a spouse that works makes it more likely that 457 visa holders will stay in Australia and extending support services on a needs basis ensures we capture their skills,’ added Wilshire.
She also said that 457 visa holders contribute their skills, pay taxes and help to build the Australian economy.
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Australian Mining 20 August, 2012 Andrew Duffy
An increasing amount of fly-in fly-out workers are having trouble coping with the lifestyle pressure of mining, and companies are now turning to less experienced staff to fill the gap.
AAP reports recruitment firm Hays said it was receiving more feedback that FIFO mining workers weren't coping with living away from home.
Hays also said workers were finding it difficult to live with the limited services and amenities provided at remote camps.
While there were still some employees capable of working in the harsh conditions Hays officials told AAP that FIFO work was not something that should be chosen "just for the money".
In its latest economic roundup Treasury reported mining firms were still experiencing acute skills shortages, particularly in specialised fields.
"In some cases, there were reports that this could lead to either sourcing less experienced staff or breaking up contract work into smaller parts," it said.
Posted: 23/10/2013 9:45:10 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Oil-and-gas, Career-resources
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The search for a great oil and gas job can take you all over the country. Fly in, fly out (FIFO) positions open up the whole of Australia to talented individuals with mining careers. As with any job there can be stress and difficulties, so how can you make the most of the FIFO lifestyle?
Stay connected
Nowadays there is a huge variety of ways to stay connected to your friends and family back home. The digital age means you’re never more than a phone call or a click away from speaking to, or even video-chatting, with your significant others.
Keeping up with hobbies and activities that you enjoy, particularly when you make plans with people, gives you an additional sense of continuity. Organising a monthly dining night at your favourite restaurant, or booking group tickets to a band or concert will provide you both with something to look forward to as well as a convenient reason to catch up.
Family matters
It can be difficult to leave your partner and children behind but the process can be made easier with a few simple preparations. Make sure that your partner knows when you’re working and how to contact you. A mining job can be intense and while shift patterns can change, it’s essential to keep open communication between the two of you. Organise a date night so you have ample time to reconnect and spend time alone.
Have regular communication with your children when you’re not with them. Reading a bedtime story over the phone or having a look at art they’ve created, or even their favourite new toy, over a video chat are a couple of examples for maintaining an essential bond. When you return home, plan a big family activity and show your children how much you value them and their time.
Fill your time
In your downtime try to stay focused on pursuing activities you enjoy. Reading, painting or even exercise can be done alone or in groups with likeminded individuals. By making the most of your free time and establishing a life on site, you’ll focus less on what you’ve left behind and more on how to be content at work.
Some people have been known to take advantage of the free time to follow academic paths, such as completing training courses or even a masters degree http://www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/In-praise-of-FIFO-lifestyle/7647272/ (http://www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/In-praise-of-FIFO-lifestyle/7647272/) .
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AAP May 25, 2012 3:45PM
THE federal government has unveiled an historic agreement with mining magnate Gina Rinehart to import overseas workers to fill jobs in her iron ore project in Western Australia.
The enterprise migration agreement (EMA) will be first used at the mining magnate's $6.5 billion Roy Hill project, allowing Hancock Prospecting to bring in 1700 migrant workers on a temporary basis.
Union leaders today lashed out at the plan saying it is a kick in the guts for Australian employees.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen announced today the government program to allow enterprise migration agreements (EMA) would help mining companies find enough workers for their developments.
But union leaders, who were attending a government manufacturing taskforce meeting in Canberra, were furious.
Australian Council of Trade Unions leader Dave Oliver said it was "reprehensible" and Australian workers were being overlooked.
"We are calling on the prime minister to immediately intervene to ensure before any workers are being brought in under the 457 visa program that there has been appropriate measures in place to ensure that the local market has been tested," he told reporters.
Australian Workers' Union head Paul Howes said it beggared belief that the announcement was made in the wake of recent jobs losses at Qantas and the Norsk Hydro aluminium smelter in NSW.
"On Friday we come to Canberra to meet with the prime minister, the industry minister and the CEOs of the major manufacturing industries to address the 130,000 jobs that have been lost out of manufacturing since 2008," a clearly angry Mr Howes told reporters.
"And Chris Bowen is announcing that Gina Rinehart gets an early Christmas present.
"I thought we were actually attacking these guys at the moment. Whose side are we on?"
Mr Howes said it was a big win for Ms Rinehart, and the benefits would also be enjoyed by her fellow mining billionaires Clive Palmer and Andrew Forrest.
"It's a massive kick in the guts to those 130,000 workers in the manufacturing industry who have lost their jobs," he said.
It's "sheer lunacy", he added.
The union movement will now pressure Prime Minister Julia Gillard to set up a job register, as promised by Mr Bowen today, and make it mandatory to advertise locally for workers before importing foreign labour.
It is believed the EMA will stipulate a maximum number of positions that can be filled by workers from overseas, who must have experience in their area of trade and English-speaking competencies.
They must also be paid the same rate as Australian workers and operate under the same conditions.
In return, the company must to commit to train a certain number of Australians with a view to their future participation in the resources sector.
Ms Rinehart's bid to bring in more migrant workers to address labour shortages has been ongoing for some time.
The huge Roy Hill project is situated 277km south of Port Hedland and is a joint venture with South Korean firms STX Corporation and POSCO, and Japan's Marubeni Corporation.
Skills Australia estimates mining operations will need an additional 89,000 workers in the five years to 2016 to meet expected demand.
The number of short-term resources construction jobs is expected to peak at 49,000 alone in 2014.
by: JAMIE WALKER From: The Australian November 01, 2013 12:00AM
LOOK out Canberra. Clive Palmer is heading to federal parliament after a recount affirmed he had won the Queensland seat of Fairfax.
The flamboyant businessman who invested millions in his startup Palmer United Party will be joined by at least two senators, capping the strongest debut in contemporary politics since One Nation had its brief moment in the sun at the state level in Queensland in 1998.
While acknowledging the result of the recount, Queensland's Liberal National Party is keeping its options open to mount a court challenge to Mr Palmer's election.
Accusing PUP of drawing out the recount, LNP state director Brad Henderson said a petition to the Court of Disputed Returns could be lodged within 40 days of the poll being declared.
"Given the sheer scale of this process in terms of the number and nature of challenges and determinations made, the LNP will now take some time to consider its position," Mr Henderson said.
For now, attention will likely turn to the statement of pecuniary interests required of MPs and senators, which promises to provide new insight into Mr Palmer's personal wealth.
His claim to be the $6 billion man is contested, with Forbes magazine putting his wealth at $895 million as of last January.
When he takes his place in parliament in a fortnight, Mr Palmer will have the added distinction of holding its most marginal seat after winning by only 53 votes.
"I'm looking forward to making a positive contribution to the battle of ideas in Canberra," Mr Palmer said last night.
The marathon recount extended his winning margin from 36 to 53 over the LNP's Ted O'Brien.
The process was fraught for the Australian Electoral Commission which faced scathing criticism from Mr Palmer. His party challenged a record 50,099 of the 89,176 ballots cast in Fairfax, pushing the duration of the recount to an unprecedented eight weeks.
Mr Palmer will be joined in parliament from next July by incoming PUP senators Glenn Lazarus, the rugby league great who won in Queensland, and Tasmanian Jacqui Lambie.
In Western Australia, PUP frontrunner Zhenya Wang remains on tenterhooks, along with incumbent Green Scott Ludlam, with their battle for the final senate spot potentially to be decided by a court or even a new election after the AEC yesterday admitted losing nearly 1400 previously counted ballot papers.
Senator Ludlam made a barbed reference to Mr Palmer's wealth in congratulating him on being elected. "Good for him," he told Sky News. "He won a . . . fair election. I wish I had a billion to spend on my campaign."
Mr Palmer, 59, has a strong political pedigree, having served as spokesman to Queensland's longest-serving premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, in the late 1980s and then becoming a financial backer of the LNP. A life member of the National Party, he stormed out of the LNP last year after falling out bitterly with Tony Abbott and Queensland Premier Campbell Newman.
Relations between Mr Palmer and the state LNP government remain poisonous. Recently, he claimed to have evidence of corruption among unnamed state ministers.
The Prime Minister will ultimately need the support of the PUP to meet his election commitments to abolish the carbon and mining taxes.
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This is good news to Filipino aspirants for Australian mining jobs. Mining magnate Mr. Palmer's Palmer Unted Party (PUP) will certainly fight to get pending projects off the ground. He’s got lots of money invested in them.
So, kababayans back home!!!! Lodge your resumes.
And may the Force be with you! :) ;)
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Posted: 5/02/2014 5:00:00 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Mining, Energy
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Recruitment in Australia’s mining industry is changing; more skilled professionals are being head-hunted by companies than before. Recruitment experts such as Hays mining and resourcing said there has been a strong preference for candidates with prior experience in this field. Mining engineers, senior metallurgists and HV electricians are just some of the professionals that are being sought by mining companies.
Hays recently released a quarterly report to reveal the shift in paradigm in the resources recruitment industry. According to the report, demand for skills and staff movement are the two main reasons that are responsible for creating this vacancy activity. “The candidates are exploring the job market and looking to improve their prospects; as a result the overall vacancy activity is bound to increase this quarter,” says, Simon Winfield, senior regional director of Hays Resources & Mining.
Hays report also analysed the changing preference of employers to recruit temporary workers. Mining companies are hiring workers on a temporary-to-permanent basis in order to cover workload peaks and to ensure that a candidate is a good company fit. The recruitment processes are getting lengthier and companies are assessing applicants more thoroughly. Fixed-term contract is another popular recruitment type that companies are readily offering. It allows the business to control costs and gives them a flexibility to recruit skilled labour only to cover manpower resources during busy seasons.
According to the Hays Quarterly Hotspots list, the following professionals are in high demand in certain markets of Australia’s resources and mining industry:
In Western Australia:
• All-round Trainers & Assessors
• Authorised Mine Surveyors
• Reliability Engineers
• Maintenance Planners
• Shutdown Planners
• Underground Heavy Diesel Fitters
• Underground Auto Electricians
In Queensland:
• Mining Engineers
• Geotechnical Engineers
• HV Electricians
• Diesel Fitters
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Yep. Sana magkaroon ng massive responses from kababayans back home. Australian mining has multitude of projects pending due to dearth of manpower.
But what's needed, first and foremost, are engineers to launch the projects.
Migrant intake for o/s engineering grads been increased by 900%! :o ;)
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sana nga..
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sana nga..
Cguro c Zulacs mi mga info na mapupulot re Philippine engineers aspiring for Australian jobs. Tanungin mo sya. :) ;)
All seems quiet at the Philippine end. Got no feedback. :-\ :)
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All seems quiet at the Philippine end. Got no feedback. :-\ :)
gotta go!enjoy the rest of the day everyone..!!God bless us all...till next time..:)
Thought you might be interested in this. I.e., you might want to be one of many Pinays trailblazing a path for the Fil women who are destined to become leaders in Aus mining industry. :) ;)
Posted: 7/02/2014 5:00:00 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Mining
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A career in the mines is attracting lot of women in Australia. Many people think that it’s difficult for women to survive and thrive a in this male-dominated industry, however, that is not completely true. Women have not only managed to cope but some have even turned their mining jobs into successful careers.
Laura Hayman is a senior geotechnical engineer with Coffey Mining. She was a RMIT graduate and has a degree in Applied Geology and Geological Engineering. She recently completed her Masters in Engineering Science in Mining Geomechanics at the WA School of Mines.
She has been working as a FIFO worker for past 9 years and has worked on some of Australia’s biggest mining projects. She shares her experience and some tips on how to make a successful career in the mining industry:
Build a support group:
It’s essential to network with people. The mining industry is a close-knit group and living on mining sites for weeks together breeds a sense of camaraderie between fellow workers. The challenges of the job can be daunting but with the right kind of people around, you can deal with everyday stress in a better way. A support group allows you to maintain a sound perspective and time-to-time counselling helps in managing challenging situations level-headedly.
Have a clear vision of your goals:
Have clear objectives and discuss your targets with your manager regularly in order to stay focused. Be optimistic about the workplace and develop positive problem-solving skills. Try handling tricky situations with humour; personalising the problem will alienate you and will create issues with other colleagues.
Perseverance pays:
Don’t give up easily; there will be situations that can prove difficult to handle but moving ahead is the only way you will get over it quickly. Adjust your thinking style and don’t fall prey to unhelpful thinking patterns. Try to remain positive at all times and be mindful of the bigger objective you are there to achieve.
Be a FIFO survivor:
Being away from family and friends for a long time can prove stressful; but maintaining a work-life balance will help you in managing stress better. Having a disciplined routine will allow in sustaining a rewarding FIFO-lifestyle. Keeping alcohol consumption to a minimum and exercising regularly will enhance sense of personal well-being allowing you to handle pressures of work and family better.
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To read more, click http://www.miningoilgasjobs.com.au/our-blog/february-2014/women-stand-their-ground-in-the-mines.aspx (http://www.miningoilgasjobs.com.au/our-blog/february-2014/women-stand-their-ground-in-the-mines.aspx)
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very interesting
Any feedback? Is migrating in droves gonna happen anytime soon? Just chasing up for updates. :) ;)
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Aussie resources sector shifts from construction to the production phase
Posted: 19/02/2014 5:00:00 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Job-seekers, Oil-and-gas, Energy
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By the year 2018, employment in the oil and gas sector is expected to increase by 57%. According to the 2013 resources skills study by the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency (AWPA), professional and specialist employment will continue to rise as nearly 40,000 resource operations jobs will be created.
In the coming years, the Australian resources industry will see a significant shift from a construction phase to a production phase. However, the mining operations jobs will continue to grow and will jump from 236,690 this year to nearly 254,260 by 2018.
It have been reported that the Australian resources industry is facing a skills shortage for high-level specialist operators with a broad range of experience. Philip Bullock, Chairperson of AWPA said: “As our resource sector transitions to an operations phase and we embark on major liquefied natural gas and coal seam projects, resources companies will face challenges in recruiting and retaining workers with the required specialist operational skills and experience.”
Bullock also said that in order to fulfil future demands for skilled workers, the industry, government and education providers have to work together to develop resources to produce home grown talent to meet the skills challenge in this sector. The Australian workforce planning will have to work quickly to address the deficit in domestic workers to fill the time-critical shortages in the second half of the decade.
Chair of AWPA’s reference group Keith Spence said: “Having people who are multi-skilled is highly valuable, so those trade workers that are transitioning out of construction into operations that can have these supplementary skills can become extremely valuable and attractive employees in the future.”
Massive opportunities are identified in the resources sector as the industry moves from the construction phase to operations phase.
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now is the chance...
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kanindot jud bitaw
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now is the chance...
??? Like felix, lomilomi lang ang nasa isep mo. ::) ;)
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di lang halata na may move na pareng juan...parang uod lang ang peg...
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