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November 28, 2011 – Good news for Irish skilled workers who want to work in Australia! Irish skilled workers on Australian work visa are now in demand in Australia.

The Australian federal government is now looking to Ireland’s horde of unemployed skilled workforce as a means to help solve Australia’s threatening shortage of skilled workers.

Skilled Irish workers across a range of industry sectors who want to immigrate to Australia will be served with hundreds of Australian jobs at a job fair to be held in Aviva stadium in Dublin this weekend.

Fifteen Australian employers who are looking to fill positions in engineering and construction, among other areas, are set to meet potential Australia working visa applicants.

Every year, an excess of 20,000 skilled Irish workers are found to have already travelled to Australia on a working-holiday basis;

however, with Australian employees looking to fill up longer term skill shortages through Australian skilled migration, a large number of skilled Irish workers on Australian skilled visa are now in demand in Australia.

According to Keith Seed, International trade services manager at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Western Australia, the country is in need of up to 10,000 skilled workers on Australian working visa in the “immediate future”. A huge demand for human resources in Australia is looming especially in Queensland and Western Australia.

Moreover, Mr. Seed stated that with only 4 per cent unemployment rate in the country, it has become necessary to look further to fill many highly skilled positions.

According to the WA’s Training and Workforce Development Minister, Peter Collier, Western Australia has enough well-paying job vacancies to employ a third of Ireland’s 450,000 unemployed. Along with the 4% unemployment rate and a population of two million living in an area the size of continental Europe, WA is anticipating a shortfall of 150,000 workers by 2017.

According to the website for the event, there are over 1,200 jobs that have now been confirmed for the expo. These include over 400 from global engineering services and consulting company, Hatch, that has offices all over Australia.

There are over 3,000 Australia skilled visa available for the event. The job expo is said to have been recently endorsed by the state’s Employment Minister Peter Collier.

The Australian government predicts that more than +20,000 vacancies in the building and construction trades, more than +28,000 jobs in health care and related fields, and close to +20,000 jobs in education are needed by 2015.

source:
visabureau.com