The report has been updated to reflect the changes to the skilled migration program that the Federal Government announced on 18th April 2017. This includes the renaming of the two occupational skills lists, and the scrapping in March 2018 of the subclass 457 visa which will be replaced with the Temporary Skills Shortage (TSS) visa.
Graphs of engineering graduates in full-time engineering, scientific, technical or management roles as a percentage of those available for full-time work have been added to Appendices 2 to 8. The report is now at Revision 2. The engineering occupations excluded from the combined STSOL and MLTSSL (see post on 23/4/17), and which are therefore not available for employer-nominated and State and Territory Government-nominated visas, are among those identified by the author as the most oversupplied. See Table 6a in the report. The Unit Group '2333 Electrical Engineers' is the exception.
Despite being almost as extensively oversupplied as '2331 Chemical and Materials Engineers' and '2334 Electronics Engineers', '2333 Electrical Engineers' is still inexplicably included on the combined list. This Unit Group has also never been flagged on the skilled occupation list (now the MLTSSL) at anytime in the last six years, whereas all other Unit Groups have. See Table 5 in the report. |
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