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The General Insurance Industry in Australia is facing a significant challenge as the availability of talent continues to dwindle. As the National Manager of Insurance and Wealth Management at Fuse Recruitment, I had the privilege of speaking at the ANZIIF Seminar Hiring in 2023. Drawing on my extensive experience, I shared my opinion on the…

As one of Australia’s largest industries, infrastructure is not immune to the effects of candidate shortages. Project delays due to an undersupply of talent continues to be one of the largest challenges the industry faces. According to the government’s Infrastructure Market Capacity 2022 Report, there was a shortage of 214,000 skilled workers in the infrastructure…

With hundreds of projects underway across Australia and the government pumping millions of dollars into the industry, there has never been a better time to find a new job in infrastructure. With so many jobs on offer, candidates in the market will see a number of benefits of looking for a new job in today’s…

Candidate shortages in the infrastructure industry will result in project timelines extending and project costs growing if businesses do not alter their hiring strategy. My previous update on the infrastructure labour market outlined how the industry will continue to experience candidate shortages over the next three years. With a predicted shortfall of over 105,000 candidates…

In continuation of our recent analysis of Australia’s unemployment and recruitment trends, we dived deeper into trends specifically related to the infrastructure industry. A quick summary of the current infrastructure recruitment trends: SEEK job ads in the construction sector grew by 21.1% between February 2022 and April 2022, whilst ads in the engineering sector grew…