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Australia Looks To The Philippines
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The New Year has just arrived and with the continued shortage of skilled labor in Australia, many businesses now turn to the Philippines as a rich source of highly skilled individual employees to fill the gaps in the current market.
Amongst the top jobs that Australia would need Filipino experts would be in the areas of medical assistance, such as nurses, medical technologists and care givers, construction and mining, such as engineers, miners and other semi-skilled workers. The Philippines currently have an oversupply in these specific fields and now they are seeking employment in Australia and other Oceania countries.
The current shortage of nurses in Australia now total 40,000 for this year and for the succeeding years until 2015. The Philippines has currently 300,000 unemployed and underemployed nurses with an average of 68,000 per year graduating from the many nursing schools throughout the country. As for the Australian construction and mining industry, there are nearly 750,000 job openings available and the current mining issues in the Philippines makes moving Down Under a more lucrative alternative.
According to Philippine Overseas Employees Administration Administrator Carlos Cao, Jr, "(Australia) With its mining and construction boom that run short of skilled workers and its healthcare system now with an acute need for registered nurses and other allied professionals, there are tremendous opportunities to widen the gateway for jobs in Filipinos in Australia across all industries and across all states and territories."
The latest Australian statistics provide that 107,868 skilled migrants entered the country for work purposes from 2009 to 2011. Current programs project to welcome an increase of nearly seventeen percent in 2012 alone totaling 2.4 million workers for the next four years. It is projected that by 2050, twenty five percent of the Australian population would be above 65 years old and the overseas worker demand is expected to rise to 5.2 million.
One of the states that have the biggest skilled labor shortages is Queensland. The major industries that need overseas assistance would be in the mining and resources industries of the state's economy. The job openings include technical managers, maintenance superintendents, electrical tradesmen and study managers in rail and port operations. Other disciplines where workers are needed include mining, environmental and electrical engineering.
According to Simon Bennison of the Association of Mining and Exploration, unless the government relaxes current visa limitations on skilled workers to Australia, many small and medium scale mining projects costing below Aus$10 billion could be lost resulting in greater dislocation for the industry.
Bobby Castro is the online editor at the Australia Forum, where he has published a number of articles about jobs for immigrants and many other topics.
Article submitted Tuesday, January 17, 2012 & read 3 times.
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