Skills Crisis
May 31st 2006, 1:18 pm
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Skills Crisis
Extract from a front page article 15 May Cairns Post.
Plenty of work here
Foreign workers are being recruited and more than 100 apprenticeships remain vacant as the skills crisis deepened in FNQ.
"I don't see it getting any better in the short term. We just don't have the bodies, we haven't had enough babies." said Ms.Booth the Commerce QLD president.
"Professionals such as accountants, engineers, doctors and nurses were in as much demand as tradespeople, carpenters, plumbers, block layers and renderers.
The crisis has led to conflict between industry groups and the union movement over calls to increase the number of skilled migrants. Ms Booth said "My argument is that everybody is already working."
Years of sustained economic growth has led to the shortfall. Important public infrastructure projects could count the cost. We need people to build it.
The article explains how they are taking a roadshow to Sydney to try to convince people to move North for a better lifestyle and lower cost of living and to get away from the nightmare traffic jams.
Giz a job........okay, come to Cairns
Don't be put off by the humidity. You can cope with it and it's bearable. Pace of work and life here allows for it. Anyway, would you rather have cold nuts ?
PS
Needless to say I have offered my services to increase the population
Plenty of work here
Foreign workers are being recruited and more than 100 apprenticeships remain vacant as the skills crisis deepened in FNQ.
"I don't see it getting any better in the short term. We just don't have the bodies, we haven't had enough babies." said Ms.Booth the Commerce QLD president.
"Professionals such as accountants, engineers, doctors and nurses were in as much demand as tradespeople, carpenters, plumbers, block layers and renderers.
The crisis has led to conflict between industry groups and the union movement over calls to increase the number of skilled migrants. Ms Booth said "My argument is that everybody is already working."
Years of sustained economic growth has led to the shortfall. Important public infrastructure projects could count the cost. We need people to build it.
The article explains how they are taking a roadshow to Sydney to try to convince people to move North for a better lifestyle and lower cost of living and to get away from the nightmare traffic jams.
Giz a job........okay, come to Cairns
Don't be put off by the humidity. You can cope with it and it's bearable. Pace of work and life here allows for it. Anyway, would you rather have cold nuts ?
PS
Needless to say I have offered my services to increase the population
May 31st 2006, 1:26 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
Originally Posted by Bix
Extract from a front page article 15 May Cairns Post.
Plenty of work here
Foreign workers are being recruited and more than 100 apprenticeships remain vacant as the skills crisis deepened in FNQ.
"I don't see it getting any better in the short term. We just don't have the bodies, we haven't had enough babies." said Ms.Booth the Commerce QLD president.
"Professionals such as accountants, engineers, doctors and nurses were in as much demand as tradespeople, carpenters, plumbers, block layers and renderers.
The crisis has led to conflict between industry groups and the union movement over calls to increase the number of skilled migrants. Ms Booth said "My argument is that everybody is already working."
Years of sustained economic growth has led to the shortfall. Important public infrastructure projects could count the cost. We need people to build it.
The article explains how they are taking a roadshow to Sydney to try to convince people to move North for a better lifestyle and lower cost of living and to get away from the nightmare traffic jams.
Giz a job........okay, come to Cairns
Don't be put off by the humidity. You can cope with it and it's bearable. Pace of work and life here allows for it. Anyway, would you rather have cold nuts ?
PS
Needless to say I have offered my services to increase the population
Plenty of work here
Foreign workers are being recruited and more than 100 apprenticeships remain vacant as the skills crisis deepened in FNQ.
"I don't see it getting any better in the short term. We just don't have the bodies, we haven't had enough babies." said Ms.Booth the Commerce QLD president.
"Professionals such as accountants, engineers, doctors and nurses were in as much demand as tradespeople, carpenters, plumbers, block layers and renderers.
The crisis has led to conflict between industry groups and the union movement over calls to increase the number of skilled migrants. Ms Booth said "My argument is that everybody is already working."
Years of sustained economic growth has led to the shortfall. Important public infrastructure projects could count the cost. We need people to build it.
The article explains how they are taking a roadshow to Sydney to try to convince people to move North for a better lifestyle and lower cost of living and to get away from the nightmare traffic jams.
Giz a job........okay, come to Cairns
Don't be put off by the humidity. You can cope with it and it's bearable. Pace of work and life here allows for it. Anyway, would you rather have cold nuts ?
PS
Needless to say I have offered my services to increase the population
Don't get to many up there or you will not be able too name your price at work
May 31st 2006, 2:21 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
Originally Posted by Perthforme
Good on ya bix
Don't get to many up there or you will not be able too name your price at work
Don't get to many up there or you will not be able too name your price at work
Hadn't you already noticed I'm unique
May 31st 2006, 2:24 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
ill come help fill a job !
May 31st 2006, 2:37 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
Originally Posted by Bix
Hadn't you already noticed I'm unique
May 31st 2006, 2:42 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
I was reading one of the reports from the Emergency Services Operation Recovery team working up in Innisfail area today, and they are crying out for plumbers - there are apparently houses there which families cannot move back into because NO plumbers can be found to fix the pipes etc. They have sourced electricians, carpenters etc with difficulty, but it seems that plumbers just don't want to go north and work.
Bixie - please stop eating the plumbers
stick to zebras!
Bixie - please stop eating the plumbers
stick to zebras!
May 31st 2006, 2:47 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
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Giz a job........okay, come to Cairns
Don't be put off by the humidity. You can cope with it and it's bearable. Pace of work and life here allows for it. Anyway, would you rather have cold nuts ?
PS
Needless to say I have offered my services to increase the population[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but they've forgot to mention your there, god help the poor people who go there now
Giz a job........okay, come to Cairns
Don't be put off by the humidity. You can cope with it and it's bearable. Pace of work and life here allows for it. Anyway, would you rather have cold nuts ?
PS
Needless to say I have offered my services to increase the population
[/QUOTE]Yeah, but they've forgot to mention your there, god help the poor people who go there now
May 31st 2006, 2:48 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
Yep, there was already a shortage of tradies before Larry came through so at the moment it's easier to get gold dust.
Worst thing about plumbers is that their PTFE tape sticks in your teeth
Worst thing about plumbers is that their PTFE tape sticks in your teeth
May 31st 2006, 2:50 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
Yeah, but they've forgot to mention your there, god help the poor people who go there now [/QUOTE]
I was thinking about contacting Ms Booth and asking her only to allow ladies to come here...............oh, and zebras of course
[/QUOTE]I was thinking about contacting Ms Booth and asking her only to allow ladies to come here...............oh, and zebras of course
May 31st 2006, 2:55 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
Originally Posted by Bix
Yeah, but they've forgot to mention your there, god help the poor people who go there now
[/QUOTE]PMSL,
god help us all
May 31st 2006, 2:57 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
Originally Posted by Margaret2
I was thinking about contacting Ms Booth and asking her only to allow ladies to come here...............oh, and zebras of course
PMSL,
god help us all [/QUOTE]You may need help if I find a printing job
http://www.jobs.careerone.com.au/js....fromSearch.y=7
May 31st 2006, 3:09 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
Originally Posted by Bix
PMSL, god help us all
god help us all http://www.jobs.careerone.com.au/js....fromSearch.y=7[/QUOTE]
Holy shit, am not showing OH THAT
, also his ideal location would be a million miles from anyone else likes the quiet life does he but I like a bit of action
May 31st 2006, 3:11 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
likes the quiet life does he but I like a bit of action [/QUOTE]
We have both here
but I like a bit of action [/QUOTE]We have both here
May 31st 2006, 3:12 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
Originally Posted by Bix
likes the quiet life does he but I like a bit of action
but I like a bit of action We have both here
[/QUOTE]Your seriously distracting me from my housework
May 31st 2006, 3:14 pm
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Re: Skills Crisis
Look again at the pictures I've put on the Cairns thread.
That's just scraping the surface.
....and nurses can walk into a job easily.
That's just scraping the surface.
....and nurses can walk into a job easily.