Introduction

The government of Australia is predicting that Australia will face certain skill shortages in specific work fields in coming years. Immigration levels have been slowly rise since post-pandemic period, but Australia’s previous strict lockdown laws have left people cautious of travelling down under for a job.

The Skilled Migration Programme lists jobs in Australia for foreigners and has mostly been on grasp since March 2020. It is now, however, being given a restart as Australia looks to fill full numerous vacancies. The current yearly immigration intake of 160,000 is likely to be increased to at least 180,000 and maybe as many as 200,000 in 2023.

So if your dream of starting a new life down under has been on hold now is the time to revive it and see when job opportunities are available in Australia.

Australia will be left climbing to find carers, electricians, chefs and more as the growing skills shortage will arise more upcoming years. It’s a concern the government expects to address with its upcoming jobs and skills summit meeting next month, as well as increased spending on professional education and training.

According to the government’s Skill Priority List, the ‘jobs of the future’ that will be in high demand in coming years are:

• Construction managers
• Civil engineering professionals
• Early childhood teachers
• Registered nurses
• ICT (information and communications technology) business and systems analysts
• Software and applications programmers
• Electricians
• Chefs
• Child carers
• Aged and disability carers

Prime Serve Anthony Albanese said nowadays that the setback had not been sudden.

“The skills have changed. We need to change the training to match those skills,” he said.

“That is one of the things that the jobs and skills summit is doing.”

It’s clear what divisions have developed since the turn of the century – in spite of the fact that a few things are less changeable.

They’re described as a “mixed bag” of professions by Pi-Shen Seet, professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Western Australia’s Edith Cowan University.

Professor Seet said Australia has had a long history of both training domestic workers and using skilled migration to fill gaps in various industries, and it largely depended on supply and demand.

Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor said the federal government was working with his state and territory counterparts around the country to determine the way forward in the labour market.

“Insofar as skilled migration is concerned, we know how important that is to employers. It is not a binary choice,” O’Connor said.

“We do understand how important it is and that is why my ministerial colleagues, Clare O’Neill and Andrew Giles, are working very hard, firstly to unclog the visa application process, so we can accelerate. This is in the area of acute skills shortage needs. We are looking at other requirements too.

“We are engaged in skilled migration pathways but we are very clear it is also about investing in our own work force.”

Deloitte Access Economics’ ork estimate has pinpointed numerous of the same issues the government is confronting.

“Net overseas migration was positive for the first time since the onset of COVID. More than net 29,000 people arrived in the December 2021 quarter, although that only unwinds around 26 per cent of the net 113,000 people lost to overseas migration over the previous 18 months,” report lead author David Rumbens said.

“The good news is that there are still more people arriving in Australia permanently, or long-term, than there are leaving – a strong indication that net overseas migration in Australia was positive through the first half of 2022, albeit a fraction of what it was before the pandemic.”

With global travel to Australia continued, many migrants and job searchers are starting the application procedure now as the Australian economy begins to improve.