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Australian Miners seeking 6200 workers

Overseas Recruitment Services ; Aug. 05, 2010
AUSTRALIAN MINERS may be upset about the proposed super profits tax, but they are trying to hire workers like never before.
 
New job vacancy figures released yesterday show the mining industry was trying to hire a record 6200 workers in May - far more than at any time during the Howard government's mining boom.
 
The Bureau of Statistics survey was conducted in the third week of May, two weeks after Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan unveiled the resources tax and two weeks after Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said it would kill the industry ''stone dead''.
 
The survey is regarded as more reliable than the private surveys of job advertisements because it counts all vacancies whether or not they are advertised.
 
Between February and May the number of mining jobs on offer jumped almost 20 per cent at a time when total vacancies fell 2.5 per cent.
 
The total of 6200 vacancies is head and shoulders above anything ever reached during the previous mining boom when vacancies only once topped 5000.
 
It is also way out of proportion to the size of mining as an employer.
 
Mining employs fewer than 200,000 Australians yet had 6200 jobs vacant. Manufacturing, which employs almost one million Australians, had 11,200 job vacancies.
 
''The mining skill shortage never went away,'' ''Mining workers are very hard to find. You need critical skills - more than in other industries - and you often need them in remote locations.'' And the Australian Skills Shortages had become acute as the economy recovered.
 
''It's one of the few positive arguments you hear about slowing resources investment; there are bottlenecks of infrastructure and skilled employees,'' he said. ''They are a brake on how quickly the industry can expand.''
 
''Things are going to get worse for Australian Employers,''
 
''For mining employers needing highly skilled workers to fill critical roles in remote locations, it's a real problem and one answer to it is Skilled Overseas Workers.''
 
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