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Engineering Recruiter Grows Partnerships in Electricity Sector
31 January 2012
JSM Appointments' strategy to focus on the electricity and civil infrastructure sector received a boost after winning a three-year contract with The Northern Territory Power and Water Corporation...read more
Unemployment down 0.1 percent to 5.2 percent in December 2011
19 January 2012
The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show 29,300 jobs were cut last month, indicating a slowdown in the economy...read more
Unemployment rate to rise to 5½% by mid-2012
16 Janauary 2012
ANZ job index shows the number of job adverts fell 0.9 per cent in December compared with the previous month while trends reveal that Australia is set for higher rate of unemployment in 2012...read more
Mixed Employment Outlook for 2012
John Masters, 20 December 2011
DEEWR's Internet Vacancy Index may have recorded a decrease in demand for engineers for November 2011, but the job outlook for 2012 remains upbeat...read more
DEEWR index shows modest decline in demand for Engineers
16 December 2011
DEEWR's Internet Vacancy Index recorded a decrease of 0.9% in demand for engineers for November 2011, with five of the eight occupational groups decreasing over the month in WA...read more
WA Leads Positive Hiring Intentions into 2012
15 December 2011
The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey for quarter 1/2012 shows ongoing strength of hiring intentions in mining and construction sector, and WA employers forecast strong job growth in Quarter 1 2012...read more
Job Advertisements Flat in November
8 December 2011
While the pace of monthly falls in trend job advertisements have slowed since June, November was the eighth consecutive month of trend decline....read more
Skilled Labour Shortfall Tipped for 2020
30 November 2011
The growing skills shortage is forcing more and more West Australian employers to look overseas to secure skilled workers...read more
Job Advertisements Ease Further in October
11 November 2011
Highlights of the latest ANZ Job Advertisement series show that job advertisements on the internet and in newspapers decreased by 0.7% in October, the sixth fall in seven months...read more
Australia Passes Controversial Carbon Pollution Tax
11 November 2011
Australia's parliament approved a controversial pollution tax on Tuesday, after years of bitter debate over the reform which is aimed at lowering carbon emissions blamed for climate change...read more
Engineering Graduates Miss out on Skills
2 November 2011
WA university students graduating with mining industry qualifications exceeds the capacity of industry to provide work placements, leaving some unable to formally complete their qualifications...read more
New Royal Charter Granted and By-laws Approved
2 November 2011
Australia’s Governor-General has granted Engineers Australia’s 2011 Royal Charter and approved Engineers Australia’s 2011 By-laws, having become effective on 26 September 2011...read more
Perth: Rudd to push African mining ahead of CHOGM
24 October 2011
The Australian foreign minister will announce a $30 million initiative to promote mining development in Africa ahead of the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth...read more
Skills shortage drives growth in temporary skilled migration
21 October 2011
KPMG's Skilled Migration Survey of 300 Australian businesses in July and August 2011and confirms that Australia is experiencing a skills shortage increase of about 10% over the past 12 months...read more
DEEWR index shows decline in demand for Engineers
20 October 2011
DEEWR's Internet Vacancy Index recorded a decrease of 3.8% in demand for engineers for September 2011, with for all eight occupational groups decreasing over the month in WA...read more
Job advertisements fall further in September
13 October 2011
Number of job advertisements continued to decline in September, falling 2.1% m/m to be just 3.1% above year ago levels...read more
BHP gets nod for expanded Olympic Dam
13 October 2011
Federal government approves the proposed expansion of the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia...read more
11 Golden Rules for Job Seekers
7 October 2011
"The biggest misconception a job seeker makes is that they assume because a headhunter agrees to meet them, that headhunter will find them a job"...read more
Where to for the Engineering Professional?
Compiled by Paula Beezhold, 30 September 2011
At a recent career development breakfast seminar hosted by EIT in Perth John Masters sheds light on the current career climate and emerging trends in the engineering employment market in WA...read more
JSM Appointments Continues to Grow Partnerships
Compiled by Paula Beezhold, 31 August 2011
JSM Appointments extends its services to the African region in a new partnership with MECS Africa, an industry leader in the provision of HR services to mining and resource projects across Africa....read more
Companies Look Overseas for Staff
1 August 2011
Almost two-thirds of large companies are considering hiring staff from overseas to overcome skills shortages, an Australian Institute of Management national salary survey shows...read more
by John Masters, 18 July 2011
Effective recruiters accurately assimilate the selection criteria, scratch beneath the surface of a candidate's CV, ensure all relevant attributes are considered then place the Goldilocks Engineer...read more
Perth Trades City Status for Country Town
21 July 2011
Perth is often described as a big country town. The description is now official. The federal government has declared the city a regional centre as part of an attempt to solve a looming labour shortage...read more
Miners move to lock in skills while academics question the wisdom of high migration intake
18 July 2011
Companies hire engineers not yet needed to avoid having to compete for skills later in the year, while a report argues that cutting migration will not hurt the resource industries...read more
Immigration slide hits population growth
24 June 2011
Population growth has slowed to its weakest pace in four years as the nation's intake of migrants has plunged...read more
Kiwis head to Australia in record numbers
23 June 2011
New Zealanders are migrating to Australia in record numbers following the Christchurch earthquakes, official data shows...read more
Massive solar projects get green light
23 June 2011
The federal government has committed more than $750 million to build two of the largest solar power stations in the world in Queensland and New South Wales....read more
Resources boom to keep rolling
9 June 2011
The global mining boom has shifted into top gear because of growing demand and surging commodity prices, with profits of the world's 40 largest miners reaching a record $US110 billion last year....read more
Australia's Federal Budget - Doors thrown open to skilled labour
12 May 2011
Responding to complaints from business about skills shortages, the government has increased its permanent migration target for the 2011-12 financial year to 185,000...read more
Engineering Reputation in Jeopardy
15 April 2011
Australia has always been a great engineering home but is it in danger of losing it because of a serious skills gap?...read more
Skills suffer as Australian migrant intake dives
30 March 2011
Slump in migration to Australia - ACCI warns that the nation will pay the price of falling net migration in higher inflation and delayed projects unless it gets the immigration settings right...read more
BHP announces $US7.4 billion expansion for WA Iron Ore
25 March 2011
BHP Billiton has announced it will spend $US7.4 billion in an iron ore project expansion in Western Australia as part of a $U10 billion capital investment commitment announced today...read more
State Government plan to supplement Western Australia's skilled workforce
23 March 2011
The West Australian Government has released a strategy that outlines an integrated and targeted approach to address a future skills shortage by supplementing Western Australia’s skilled workforce....read more
Using ABNs: Is your Engineering Employment Contract arrangement compliant?
23 March 2011
Engineers and employers using ABNs should ensure that work arrangements comply with legitimate contracting structures as Australia's one million contractors face tougher scrutiny from 3 regulators...read more
Training plan part of deal to speed up the approval of temporary skilled migration visas
16 March 2011
Companies will be required to submit training plans for meeting staff needs when seeking to speed up the approval of temporary skilled migration visas and bloc migration for projects above $40M...read more
John Masters, 28 February 2011
Labour hire preferred supplier agreements (PSAs) favour one size fits all recruiters. Are smaller specialised recruiters facing extinction under a modern regime of prescribed mediocrity?...read more
Looming skills shortages - how the engineering team fares
24 February 2011
Recent ABS statistics put the scarcity of engineering skills into perspective, indicating that low unemployment and a fall in participation sets the scene for persistent engineering skills shortages...read more