Miners Lower Standards to Fill Jobs Fast
Posted: 05/02/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT | 2
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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.
This article was originally published on Mining Austraila and is re-published here with permission.
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i have been forced to do training through the "back door" at a mining company, its office based role without mangement acknowledgement, i do this in order to obtain the skills required for employment, there are many jobs available in this paricular role but theres no outhouse training for this postion, all inhouse, to find someone willing to train me has been one of my biggest challengers, if the companys where willing to give me a go 12 months ago, they would have themselves a qualified operator with EXPERIENCE !!!
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I am again , kind of shocked at this, I know myself and many others have tried many many times to gain employment in the WA mining industry and we have good CV's...but only to get ZERO feedback. Frustrating is not the word for it.
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