Australia's skilled shortages reflects a growing global malaise

摘要

While the throngs attending PDAC will be talking capital raisings, joint ventures and acquisitions there will also be some headhunting taking place and debates about how to feed skilled people into the global resource development projects. A joint research programme by a major Western Australian marketing group and an employment website claims that a combination of an ageing technical workforce and competition for skilled people from other countries pose a threat to expansion of Australia's resource sector.