Recently the Department of Employment (DoE) released the results of its 2017 Survey of Employers who have Recently Advertised (SERA). Once again, the engineering profession had the highest number of applicants per vacancy of any profession or trade monitored by the DoE. The number of applicants per engineering vacancy was 48.2 in 2016, falling to 39.9 in 2017. According to DoE, the fall in this number was driven by a lower number of applicants for vacancies for civil engineering professionals. For mechanical engineers, there were 65.9 applicants per vacancy. In stark contrast, the average number of applicants per vacancy for all professions measured was just 13.5. This is additional confirmation of the enormous, ongoing oversupply of the Australian engineering labour market. See:
www.engineeroversupply.weebly.com/applicants and https://docs.employment.gov.au/documents/engineering-professions-australia DoE also recently released its five year projections for the seven Unit Groups in the ANZSCO Minor Group ‘233 Engineering Professionals’. See: www.engineeroversupply.weebly.com/workforce and http://lmip.gov.au/default.aspx?LMIP/GainInsights/EmploymentProjections This forecast, from May 2017 until May 2022, conveys a more positive outlook for engineering occupations than the previous five year forecast released in 2015. The projected compound annual growth rate of the workforce for ANZSCO Minor Group ‘233 Engineering Professionals’ over the next five years is a very modest 1.8% per annum. For the individual engineering Unit Groups, the projections are as follows: 2331 Chemical and Materials Engineers 0.3% per annum 2332 Civil Engineering Professionals 3.8% per annum 2333 Electrical Engineers 0.3% per annum 2334 Electronics Engineers 0.3% per annum 2335 Industrial, Mech. and Prod. Engineers -1.1% per annum 2336 Mining Engineers 1.7% per annum 2339 Other Engineering Professionals 2.1% per annum The predicted workforce growth for '2332 Civil Engineering Professionals' is the largest, and derives from the expected ongoing demand for these professionals in the east coast residential construction boom, and from numerous planned State and Federal Government infrastructure projects. Comments are closed.
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November 2018
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