Engineers have a significant impact on society
Posted: 10/07/2013 5:00:00 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Career-resources
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“Get ready engineers, students, teachers, community! Australian Engineering Week 2013 http://www.makeitso.org.au/australian-engineering-week/newcastle (http://www.makeitso.org.au/australian-engineering-week/newcastle) is on its way,” cheers Engineers Australia Newcastle Division President, Karlie Collis.
Australian Engineering Week 2013, organised by Engineers Australia, is a great event that celebrates the huge impact that engineers have on society, whilst encouraging communities to learn more and be inspired by the subject.
This year, Australian Engineering Week 2013 will be held from 5th – 11th August, with a fantastic program of events throughout Australia. There will be something for everyone to be involved with, from behind the scenes tours of some of the country’s most fascinating infrastructure, trivia nights, Q&As and workshops for school groups. These events are designed to appeal to the broader community, including professionals, trades, university students, families and school groups.
“Australian Engineering Week is also a time to engage our next generation of future engineers. It is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the profession as a rewarding career choice with endless exciting possibilities,” says Queensland Division President Simon Orton.
The Australian Engineering Week 2013 is lining up to be exceptional, so wherever you are in the country, make sure you get involved!
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Posted: 16/07/2013 10:46:54 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Mining, Training-and-Development, Job-seekers
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A familiar – and justified – gripe from university graduates is that they find themselves stuck in a cycle of being unable to get a job because they don’t have experience. Few graduates are able to spend their university days balancing study with work, leading to skilling gaps in their resume.
But provided you are motivated to pursue your career, combatting the problem of a post-graduate, unemployment lull may not be the drag you are expecting.
Here, you’ll find some tips on how to bridge the gap between university and employment.
Know Your Worth
Knowing your worth is a valuable fact to keep in your knowledge base, particularly as studies show a Generation Y trend toward salary expectations far exceeding the median range for graduate employees.
For example, the average graduate salary across all fields in Australia is around $45,000, while some student expectations hovered above $100,000.
Evaluating your worth means being realistic about your experience and your qualification. If you are just out of University with a scarce employment history, there is a very high chance that in your first job, you will be learning far more than you will be providing in skills and knowledge. Be prepared to give up on expectations of a car allowance in exchange for the training opportunities that will ensure your value as an employee can grow.
Consider an internship
Many organisations, especially in the resource sector, offer internships to university students and a large majority also accept graduate applications. If an internship was or is not offered as a unit in your degree, it is worth your time to pursue one on your own accord.
Internship opportunities are reasonably flexible with some taking place over the standard University semester and others during the summer break.
Begin your search by checking company websites for internship applications, but be prepared to dedicate time with the reward being mostly educational. While you may receive some benefits such as accommodation and food allowances on regional sites, most internships are voluntary. However, with a positive attitude and good working ethic, your voluntary internship may lead to a job opportunity down the track. In any case, an internship on a curriculum vitae reads motivated self-starter with experience, putting you a step above the competition.
Apply for Graduate Programs
Graduate programs are rife in the mining sector because they benefit all parties. For you, remuneration and on-the-job training opportunities are on offer, and for your employer, it means a skilled employee who can be trained to meet tailored expectation in their particular workplace.
Applications for most graduate programs open in February or March for commencement in the following year, offering selected final-year students immediate employment once they have completed their degree. The same programs are also on offer to graduates already commencing the job hunt, so if this is you, don’t hesitate to submit your application. After all, you never know how long you may be a jobseeker for.
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Posted: 6/12/2012 5:00:00 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Job-seekers, Mining, Oil-and-gas, Construction
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We’ve reported before about the engineering skills shortage in Australia but a new paper from Engineers Australia https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/ (https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/) shows demand for engineers continues unabated. The Changes in the Australian Engineering Labour Market https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/shado/Representation/Policy_Notes/australia_2011.pdf (https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/shado/Representation/Policy_Notes/australia_2011.pdf) report release last week shows an increase of more than 30% 2006 and 2011.
“Australia’s engineering labour force (those employed directly in engineering work) increased by almost 60,000 engineers between 2006 and 2011,” said Stephen Durkin, Chief Executive Officer of Engineers Australia.
“The resources boom has clearly gained momentum between the last two censuses with the emergence of major energy, oil and gas projects. Western Australia and the Northern Territory led the charge, with demand for engineers expanding by a staggering 53.5 percent and 37.5 percent, respectively.
Engineering skills shortage widespread
While it’s easy to focus on engineering in the resources industry, far more engineers are employed in other sectors. In fact, mining ranks sixth on the list with about 13,500 engineers employed on mining projects. Top industries requiring engineering skills include:
• Professional services - 60,654 engineers
• Manufacturing - 41,114 engineers
• Construction sector - 20,901 engineers
Skilled migration solution for engineering shortage
While Australian is graduating about 9,500 engineers every year, that’s still not enough to meet demand. Skilled migration makes a positive contribution to filling the engineering skills gap. Engineers from overseas made up 48% of the workforce in 2006 but climbed to nearly 54% by 2011.
“This latest paper confirms that engineers remain critical players in Australia’s ambitious nation building agenda. Engineers and engineering continue to make a huge contribution to our national economy, and these latest data draw attention to the scale of this ongoing contribution,” Mr Durkin said.
Have you thought about working in Australia as an engineer?
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Quote from: juan on July 09, 2013, 03:17:48 PM
Offering money/scholarships to a young talented Filipino woman to become an engineer in exchange for a night (or nights) with you for whatever absurd plans and crap that you're very desperate of becoming my wife.
:-* ;)
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Commercial break muna!
:) ;)
Quote from: juan on July 09, 2013, 03:17:48 PM
Offering money/scholarships to a young talented Filipino woman to become a structural engineer in exchange for a night (or nights) with you for whatever absurd plans and crap that you're very desperate of becoming my wife.
:-* ;)
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Where else but Sydney!
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Posted: 25/10/2013 3:30:50 PM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Oil-and-gas, Construction
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New South Wales (NSW) is set for massive development over the next four years. The NSW government has released plans to spend over $6.4bn out of the 2013/2014 budget on a number of infrastructure improvements all over the state.
Sydney will become a hive of activity, with the state budget including $6.4bn worth of rail, road and walkway improvements, including:
• $4bn – 36km North West Rail Link
• $782m – 11.4km South West Rail link between Glenfield and Leppington
• $423m – 12km light rail line
• $885m – Northern Sydney Freight Corridor
• $224m – Wynyard Walk, capable of linking 20,000 commuters an hour with Barangaroo
• $76m – 5.6km Inner West light Rail Extension
The projects are currently progressing well, with the South West Rail Link six months ahead of schedule and the Inner West Light Rail Extension due to open next year. The various construction projects are expected to create more than 5,000 construction jobs and considerably more indirect and supporting roles.
NSW premier Barry O’Farrell commented that the public transport expenditure this year is 32% greater than last year and is being completed with a view to improve the commuting experience. This extra amount adds a record-breaking $4.1bn to the overall budget and should go a long way to improving the infrastructure in the city. Thousands of jobs in construction will be created and sustained over the four year timeframe.
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wow... your so Bless jud dinha pareng Juan...and hope daghan paka matabangan nga taga atoa..
This site is inundated with excellent tips on Australian job opportunities. The rest is up to kababayans back home. :) ;)
Rappler by Dean Antonio La Vina and Dr. Kristoffer Berse Posted on 10/20/2013 5:08 PM | Updated 10/21/2013 1:30 PM
Rappler by Dean Antonio La Vina and Dr. Kristoffer Berse Posted on 10/20/2013 5:08 PM | Updated 10/21/2013 1:30 PM
In the end, it is up to all Boholanos to own or not a new path of development, one that will keep them, their loved ones and their investments safe from the ravages of nature. – Rappler.com
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Quote from: juan on October 18, 2013, 12:36:05 PM
Be proactive! Forego crab mentality! Synergize!
:) ;)
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"Prosperity is never a given. It must be earned. The journey is never one of shortcuts or settling for less.
It is not the path for the fainthearted -- for those who prefer leisure over hard work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame.
Rather, it is the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labour -- who carry themselves up the long, rugged path toward prosperity and freedom. (Barack Obama)"
wow... your so Bless jud dinha pareng Juan...and hope daghan paka matabangan nga taga atoa..
This site is inundated with excellent tips on Australian job opportunities. The rest is up to kababayans back home. :) ;)
Rappler by Dean Antonio La Vina and Dr. Kristoffer Berse Posted on 10/20/2013 5:08 PM | Updated 10/21/2013 1:30 PM
Rappler by Dean Antonio La Vina and Dr. Kristoffer Berse Posted on 10/20/2013 5:08 PM | Updated 10/21/2013 1:30 PM
In the end, it is up to all Boholanos to own or not a new path of development, one that will keep them, their loved ones and their investments safe from the ravages of nature. – Rappler.com
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Quote from: juan on October 18, 2013, 12:36:05 PM
Be proactive! Forego crab mentality! Synergize!
:) ;)
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“Interdependence is better than independence”
- Covey
:) ;)
wow mosukol ko ani nga lugar da...ganahan ko ug mingaw para layo sa tentasyon..
Tinuod wai tentasyon sa mina. Pero, during your week-off, sugaton ka ni RG&Co sa airport. Take you on ABS spending spree. So that, at the end of your contract, wa lang gihapoi kuarta. Hehe. :) ;) Ok lang, during booming times, 'coz your contract will be renewed. But, come mining bust, you're also busted. ;D ;)
Yeah, mate! Maranasan mo iyon when you become an o/s Pinoy. Biglang dumami ang relatives&friends mo. People will be hounding you. You'll become an enticingly lucrative prey for predators, e.g., piranhas. You'll be confronted with problems on how to keep people from extracting (or, should I say, extorting) money from you. ::) ;)
Lalapit sa Iyo isang smiling face like this.
masaya sa Staples Center kanina with K
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/25/mezaja3u.jpg)
Sasabihin sa iyo, "Choi, mi magandang young grass ipakilala ko sa iyo. Manipis ang bol2X. Sariwang sariwa. 'di pa laspag. ;D ;)
“Adventure is a path.
Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it.
Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both.
This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
:) ;)
Where else but Sydney!
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Posted: 25/10/2013 3:30:50 PM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Oil-and-gas, Construction
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New South Wales (NSW) is set for massive development over the next four years. The NSW government has released plans to spend over $6.4bn out of the 2013/2014 budget on a number of infrastructure improvements all over the state.
Sydney will become a hive of activity, with the state budget including $6.4bn worth of rail, road and walkway improvements, including:
• $4bn – 36km North West Rail Link
• $782m – 11.4km South West Rail link between Glenfield and Leppington
• $423m – 12km light rail line
• $885m – Northern Sydney Freight Corridor
• $224m – Wynyard Walk, capable of linking 20,000 commuters an hour with Barangaroo
• $76m – 5.6km Inner West light Rail Extension
The projects are currently progressing well, with the South West Rail Link six months ahead of schedule and the Inner West Light Rail Extension due to open next year. The various construction projects are expected to create more than 5,000 construction jobs and considerably more indirect and supporting roles.
NSW premier Barry O’Farrell commented that the public transport expenditure this year is 32% greater than last year and is being completed with a view to improve the commuting experience. This extra amount adds a record-breaking $4.1bn to the overall budget and should go a long way to improving the infrastructure in the city. Thousands of jobs in construction will be created and sustained over the four year timeframe.
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And Melbourne, too!
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Posted: 5/11/2013 9:00:00 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Mining, Oil-and-gas, Construction
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The race to build Melbourne’s breakthrough East-West Link project is well and truly underway. Some of the biggest names in Australian construction such as Transfield Services, John Holland, Lend Lease and Leighton Contractors have been named in three consortia who are currently vying for the contract. The scope of the project promises to fuel a requirement for construction jobs in the state of Victoria.
The short-list was jointly revealed by State Premier Dennis Napthine and Treasurer Michael O’Brien, who both said the selection of bids comprised of the strongest field ever for a major building project in the country.
“We have assembled the global might of the world’s leading tunnelling firms, as well as every major Australian construction firm,” Napthine said. “We expected to get the ‘best of the best’ bidding for the East-West Link, but… the bidding has surpassed our highest expectations.”
The East-West Link is an eighteen kilometer road link that connects the Eastern Freeway with the Tullamarine Freeway. The stage one CityLink and the stage two Western Ring Road are also scheduled to be included.
Workers looking for a construction job should keep an eye out for the three big players.
• The East West Connect consortium includes Lend Lease, infrastructure fund manager Capella Capital, Spain’s civil construction company Acciona and French builder Bouygues.
• The Momentum Infrastructure Corporation includes John Holland, Leighton Contractors, Spain’s Dragados (Australia) and Iridium S.A and the Bank of Tokyo – Mitsubishi UFJ.
• The Inner Link Group includes Spain’s Cintra Infrastructures S.A and Ferrovial (Australia), Korean Samsung C&T Corporation, Italy’s Ghella, Transfield Services, Macquarie Capital and Retail Employees Superannuation.
Each of the consortiums brings a huge variety of experience to the table. East West built a couple of large Australian projects, including Brisbane’s Legacy Way and Melbourne’s Peninsula Link, as well as a host of high profile international projects. The Inner Link group had involvement with Melbourne’s EastLink project as a number of other international projects. Momentum has a large amount of Australian specific experience to draw on, including EastLink and CityLink in Melbourne, Airport Link and CLEM7 in Brisbane and the Lane Cove Tunnel in Sydney.
Construction is predicted to begin in the second half of next year, after a Request for Proposal is released in October.
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Can Australia’s resources industry cope with the shortage of local engineering talent?
Posted: 13/01/2014 9:00:00 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Oil-and-gas, Training-and-Development, Mining
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The Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency (AWPA) has released a report that suggests that by 2018, there will be a serious shortage of a skilled workforce in the resources sector.
According to the AWPA report, there will be a 7% increase in mining employment by 2018. The oil and gas sector will also see a major boom in employment as it is expected to rise by almost 50% in the next four years. From around 39,000 workers currently employed in the oil and gas industry, this number is likely to rise to 61,212 in 2018.
The major concern that has been brought to light by the report submitted by AWPA is that in the coming years, there will be lack of domestic engineering expertise in Australia. Along with shortage of local engineering talent, there is also a probability of facing scarcity of chemical, gas, petroleum drillers and power generation plant operators.
Greater measures have to be put into place to address this skills gap in the Australian resources industry. Both the industry and government are working together to address the lack of domestic expertise in this sector. AWPA has advocated apprenticeship schemes for oil and gas jobs while the key players in the mining industry are offering post-graduate training courses in automated technology.
Keith Spence, an AWPA board member said: “The oil and gas industries needed to pursue a “more co-ordinated approach,” and “work together rather than independently.”
Spence believes that the educators, government and the industry together have to develop strategies to source local talent to address shortage of skills in the oil, gas and mining industry.
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Posted: 9/12/2014 5:00:00 AM by Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Filed under: Construction, Job-seekers, Mining, Oil-and-gas, Career-resources
In a recent controversial statement, Mitsui's chief of Australian operations, Yasushi Takahashi said the “inconvenient truth” of Australian mining is that wages are too high. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, he said that it is a “good thing we are seeing high wages in the most liveable country in the world... If that's sustainable that's fine. But one concern is, is it really sustainable?”
The average annual wage for someone working in Australian mining is $138,000, more than double the US average. This has been a point of pride for the industry, but while the commodity sector is engaged in an enormous efficiency drive, thanks largely to a slump in global commodity prices, many bosses such as Takahashi are seeing such high labour costs as prohibitive. Roughly 25% of the cost of running a mine in Australia is comprised of labour, compared to 15% on average worldwide.
His concerns were preceded by a 2014 report by PwC that found Australia's high wages weren't matched by productivity: “Mining equipment in Australia runs at lower annual outputs than most of its global peers”, attributing the shortfall almost entirely to labour.
Of course, this begs the question – would productivity increase if wages were cut? Further, as recognised elsewhere, while some in the industry are seeking work overseas – unable to find employment in their speciality; exploration work in particular is not as available as it was as Australian mining has transitioned from opening new mines to operating those mines – high wages are arguably what brings people back down under.
It's also important to note that even in the wider economic context, mining remains the largest contributor to Australian economic growth, making it essential for us to attract and retain the best people we can. And if that means keeping wages high, that means keeping wages high.
Whatever side you come down on, salaries in Australian mining are higher than elsewhere. That's an issue that won't be going anywhere soon.
Australian mining salaries are the highest in the world. See what you could earn here
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World Class Filipino came to existence because of the solid belief of the people behind this project on its subject … the Filipino and most especially because God has allowed this to happen.
We are first hand witnesses on how competent Filipinos are in any trade or profession, in any country and against any nationality as most of us are currently occupying job positions which could have been easily occupied by another race had we not been capable.
The idea of setting up this website first came up at a time when we were always being asked by foreign employers if we know of a Filipino who would like to work with them. When asked why they prefer Filipinos… they site Filipino qualities such as the following: honest, loyal, friendly, fun-loving, honors commitments, good communicator, hardworking, creative and among others. If you just happen to have the privilege of hearing these adjectives from people other than your “kababayan”… you would probably ask yourself why these people believe in us and why can't we? Why other nationalities are appreciating us while we ourselves, at times, are still downgrading our capacities?
As Filipinos working abroad, we believe we are representatives of our country. Our performances today will have a direct effect on others who will choose to follow this route and to the image of Filipinos in general. That's why we are always asking God for guidance at work and in everything we do. That we may continue to do His will for His greater glory and thereby preserve the legacy of the Filipinos who came before us. In relation to this, please allow us to use this space to salute them. They made lasting impressions internationally which practically paved the way and have opened up windows of opportunities for millions of Filipinos.
And lastly, we believe that everything we have, were just given. Our strength, beauty, intelligence… everything. We should therefore not be boastful and proud. Instead, we should be thankful to the one who made you and me and share these gifts to everyone. We may be small as people, we may be under-developed as a country and we are not perfect. But we are perfectly us… just the way God had designed us to be.
Love. Care. Share.
Love God above all. Care for others. Share ourselves.
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To all kababayans back home!!!!!
Come and join our ranks.
become a world class miner.
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