Welders are in short supply in Australia.
A recent business survey by the Australian Industry Group/Deloitte, warn that businesses are expecting a serious skills shortage in Australia that could affect the economy.
The survey questioned more than 400 chief executives of major businesses up and down Australia and found that 34.7% of them believed that skills shortages would affect their businesses this year and 47.5% believed that by 2015 more businesses would be affected.
The chief executive of the Australian Industry Group, Heather Ridout, warned that skills shortages only looked likely to increase which would have an adverse effect on the Australian economy. Of the businesses most likely to be affected are those within manufacturing, construction and engineering – central to the Australian economy and also businesses with a high turnover of migrant employees.
However with recent changes to the Australian immigration policy and harsh words from Australia’s new Prime Minister, skilled migrants are finding it more of a struggle to negotiate their way through the confusing DIAC legislation on general skilled migration policy.
The regional manager of Deloitte Consulting Asia Pacific agreed with Ms Ridout and said that Australia could lose out because of the lack of skilled workers: “CEOs committed to driving growth need to win the race for talent or risk being overtaken by the competition,”
The occupations with the worst skilled labour shortfalls were metal fitters and machinists that have 59.6% of vacancies that are unfilled, then engineering professionals (57.1%), metal casting, forging and finishing tradesmen (36.7%), welders (32.9%) and business administration managers (36.7). All of these skills, apart from business administration managers, are on the new Skilled Occupation List that the DIAC introduced this month. Visa applicants with these skills will see their application receive priority processing by the DIAC. Find out more about how to apply to emigrate to Australia with our Australian visa guide.
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4 Responses to “Australian Businesses Warn of Skills Shortages”
Comment by carl — July 9, 2010 @ 6:10 pm
In this article it says that metal fitters are on the new sol, I cant find it on the list, they are on schedule 4 the sponsored list. so are they really in that much demand?
Comment by Lisa Valentine — July 9, 2010 @ 7:23 pm
Hi Carl
Some of the occupations in the article are found on the list, including welders and other metal workers. Here:
322211
Sheetmetal trades worker
322311
Metal Fabricator
322312
Pressure Welder
322313
Welder (first class)
Comment by Tanveer — July 10, 2010 @ 5:50 am
Yet I see many of my friends who immigrated to Australia one year ago, still struggling hard to get a good professional job. I can’t really make anything out of their struggle and these kinda reports of skills shortages. It’s quite contradictory.
Comment by R.KH — July 14, 2010 @ 8:01 am
I think ANZSCO 233914 as “Engineering Technologist”(that in a way is equal to previous ASCO 212813 as “Mechanical Engineering Technologist” )which has been clasiffied by DIAC and also is defined as an assessment outcome by Engineers Australia is only a nasty joke. You know,while none of Australian states consider this code in their occupation lists, how migration applicants like me can trust the authenticity of their statements? FYI, none of the responsible agents/departments are eager to clear this ambiguous but simple incongruity?