As economies around the world continue to face crisis, employment prospects in Australia are continuing to remain high with employers across the country doing everything that they can to attract skilled workers from other industries and countries.

As reported by NASDAQ;

In the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey, 32 per cent of employers in Australia and New Zealand's mining and construction sectors said they plan to hire more people in 2012 versus 12 per cent that plan to downsize their manpower pool.

Lincoln Crawley, managing director of ManpowerGroup Australia and New Zealand, identified the jobs likely to be in high demand as technical managers, mining engineers, maintenance superintendents, environment engineers, study managers in ports and rail operations, electrical tradesmen and electrical engineers.

To address the continued shortage, the Association of Mining and Exploration (AMEC) urged the Gillard government to amend its skilled immigration policy or face losing smaller mining projects.

AMEC Chief Executive Simon Bennison particularly pointed to the provision in the new enterprise migration agreements that only projects worth over $10 billion would enjoy faster and easier access to overseas workers.

A similar call was made by the Queensland Resources Council which projected the vacant jobs in the state's mining sector could reach 35,000 positions in the next two years.

In Western Australia (WA), mining leaders shared the same concern of lack of skilled workers. Gina Rinehart, the country's richest woman, estimated the shortage to 150,000 positions. Other mining executive, who took part in a panel discussion in October on Australia's business hubs for the next 100 years, also pointed to the lack of infrastructure as affecting the country's competitiveness in the global arena.

With the migration solution seen as a long-term one and a politically volatile situation depending on which party is in power, Queensland mines are in the meantime pirating workers from the banking and retail sectors to fill up vacancies besides hiring overseas workers for mining projects at Mt Isa, Mackay, Gladstone and Toowomba.

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