“Whether an occupation is recommended by JSA to be included on the CSOL in its final advice will be determined by reference to two key criteria:

The JSA Skills Priority List, developed using an in-depth analysis of business recruitment activity and an extensive range of other economic data, as well as significant input through submissions from meetings with businesses, unions, industry associations, state and territory governments and a wide range of other stakeholders.

Analysing whether migration is an appropriate path to address the identified shortages includes considering whether migrants stay in their nominated occupations in the years after arrival, how important sponsored skilled visa holders are to the workforce relative to total employment and job vacancies, the pipeline of graduates from the Australian education and training sectors, and the market salary for occupations.

There are over 700 occupations in scope for potential inclusion on the CSOL. While JSA has grouped these occupations into three categories for the purposes of undertaking stakeholder consultation, all occupations are open for consultation. To date, while the majority of stakeholder inputs have related to the ‘targeted for consultation’ group, JSA has also received stakeholder inputs with respect to both the ‘confident on list’ and ‘confident off list’ groupings, all of which we are considering before finalising our advice to Government.

Some occupations must be included on CSOL in line with Australia’s existing Free Trade Agreements.”
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Caterpillar, the Irving-based construction equipment manufacturer, wants its dealers to hire 40,000 new technicians in two years to stem a global shortage.

Even before the pandemic, 70% of employers reported having trouble filling roles requiring skilled labor, per Bloomberg.

State of play: Not only are manufacturing giants like Caterpillar having trouble finding the workers to build this equipment, dealers are struggling to hire people to maintain and repair that equipment, Griffin Reome, the company’s manager of workforce development, tells Axios.

A lot of the technician workforce is also starting to retire, and the company is scrambling to transfer that institutional knowledge to a new generation.

Flashback: Caterpillar has watched this problem evolve over decades.

“We have articles within the Caterpillar organization that date back to the 1960s, talking about the skills gap and how people are being pushed into the post-secondary college route versus going into the workforce,” Reome says.

What they’re doing: The company created a development program that pays people to train and targets a wide range of potential workers, from recent high school graduates to military veterans to mothers who’ve been out of the workforce for years.

The company is also leaning into recruiting events — often alongside its biggest competitors like Komatsu and John Deere, who are having the same issues, Reome says.

“This is certainly an all-hands-on-deck issue.”

Plus: They’re working to hire women, who account for a mere 3% of the technician workforce in the U.S.

Technology shifts have made the job less labor-intensive and more accessible.

“You don’t have to be a 200-pound male,” Reome says. “And you won’t need a shoulder replacement when you’re 40.”

What they’re saying: “Women can easily do the job as efficiently as their male counterparts,” he says.

“Some would even say they can do it better because of the attention to detail and the ability to multitask.”

By the numbers: Though the company won’t release its pay scale, Reome says Caterpillar technicians make “20% over the median household income within the U.S.,” which amounts to a salary of about $90,000 a year. (c) Michael Mooney – axios

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In short: There are fresh warnings Australia is facing a skills shortage in the aviation industry. “Everyone wants to be a pilot but there’s a gap in the market for technicians,” she said. “The industry has job ads going out for 6 to 12 months with no qualified person applying.” From pilots to baggage handlers, maintenance, repairs and technicians – the aviation sector is contending with a worker shortage. An estimated 25,000 people left the commercial industry during the COVID-19 pandemic after airlines made drastic staffing cuts and accreditations lapsed. In the years following, many workers retrained in other industries and didn’t return to aviation.

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The lack of standardized training creates hurdles for heavy-duty technician recruitment and retention. Unlike OEM dealerships with clear standards, independent dealerships face a different reality. The Heavy Duty Parts Report.
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Skills shortage continues to impact the Australian construction industry – a vital contributor to the country’s GDP and economic growth – with just a little over half of trade apprentices completing their training.
While the Australian Apprenticeship System delivers a pipeline of skilled, trained individuals to the construction industry, apprenticeship completion rates remain a key area of concern. National data reveals that just 54 per cent of trade apprentices who started in 2017 completed by the end of 2021, down from 57 per cent of those who started a year earlier; one in three now drops out in their first year.

In March, Weld Australia confirmed that Australia’s welders are more than capable of building the new fleet of eight nuclear-powered submarines agreed to in the $368 billion AUKUS deal. However, the biggest risk facing the nuclear-powered AUKUS submarine build is whether enough skilled welders can be recruited and trained. As such, Weld Australia is calling for a Shipbuilding Welding Academy to be established and funded by the Federal Government.According to Geoff Crittenden (CEO, Weld Australia), “There has been some discussion in the media over whether the quality of Australian welders is sufficient to build the proposed AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines. Australia’s qualified welders are more than capability of building the new fleet.” “Some pundits have stated that the quality of welding required for a nuclear submarine is of a much higher standard than that required for a diesel electric conventional submarine. However, all welding must be of the highest quality if the submarine is to meet the necessary survivability objectives—whether the submarine is nuclear or diesel powered is irrelevant.” “Whilst some welding on nuclear boats is undertaken in line with different International and Australian Standards, and utilises different materials, the quality of the weld must be the same: that is to zero defects.”The biggest risk facing Australia’s nuclear-powered AUKUS submarine build is not welder capability, but the recruitment and training of enough skilled welders.“Australia is already facing a severe shortage of skilled welders. Even before the AUKUS deal was signed, Australia was looking at a shortage of 70,000 welders by 2030. So, unless we take serious precautions now, there simply won’t be enough skilled people to undertake the welding required,” said Crittenden.