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What's new on SkillsInfo?Spotlight on is a dynamic page which provides recent and topical media articles, research or discussion papers and other key developments relevant to meeting Australia's skill needs New Jobs 2009 has been released, providing an easily accessible overview of industry employment trends. |
With the release of the November 2009 quarterly Labour Force Survey data, we have redeveloped and published two popular Excel-based data tools from the past. These are the 'Dynamic' State/Territory Industry and Occupation Spreadsheets.
The Dynamic Spreadsheets allow you to select any State or Territory and compare annual average employment levels, and employment growth, between any two selected years within the last 12 years, by broad industry or occupational group.
The redeveloped Dynamic Spreadsheets now use the more modern ANZSIC 2006 industry classification and the ANZSCO occupational classification. They can be found at Items 4 and 5 on our 'Region and Occupation' Industry Profiles page.
Job Outlook has been redesigned. The new Job Outlook uses the latest occupational classification (Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations). There are 12 charts and tables for each occupation, including an option to view and print all the charts.
The redesign of Job Outlook includes easy access to current vacancies on Australian JobSearch and education and training courses on the Myfuture website. There are some new features of Job Outlook that should assist job exploring, such as an industry search, a career quiz, and information from O*Net covering skills, knowledge, abilities, job environment, interests and activities.
Job Outlook takes a new direction by including charts and analysis for clusters of occupations, such as Engineers. These include a suite of charts that compare information for specific occupations within that occupational cluster.
Job Outlook is a comprehensive source of information on occupational trends and prospects, including:
- Job Prospects and ‘key indicators’
- Employment levels and trends
- Recent and future job growth
- Employment by gender
- Employment by full-time/part-time and average hours worked
- Employment growth (five years) by gender and full-time/part-time
- Employment by age group
- Educational profile
- Employment by State/Territory
- Main employing industries for occupations
- Job turnover and vacancy levels for occupations
- Unemployment levels
- Earnings (full-time before tax)
The New Jobs (PDF 2.8MB) report provides an easily accessible overview of industry employment trends and will assist education and employment providers and industry to develop training and skills strategies, as well as guide users to more in-depth information for specific industries on SkillsInfo.
On Monday 27 October, the ABS released its latest online Census data product - CDATA Online.
CDATA Online combines a comprehensive range of data from the Census with powerful mapping and graphing software. It provides quick access to valuable data topics such as age, education, employment, housing, income, transport, religion, ethnicity and more, from a single Collection District to an entire State/Territory or total Australia.
The product is designed to provide clients with a high degree of freedom in selecting and combining geographical areas. Unlike previous online products, data from many multiple areas can be compared simultaneously. Data can be output as tables or in graphical format, or thematic maps can be produced using an inbuilt sophisticated mapping tool.
Users can choose a range of standard tables for any selected data topic, or can customise their own tables from a wide range of Census variables. Registered users will have the ability to save customised classifications (including geography) and tables for later use.
This presentation was given at the Career Advice Australia conferences held in each state. The presentation provides a thorough overview of:
• Industry employment
• Industry drivers of job growth
• Job growth by skill level by industry
• New jobs and workforce ageing
• Skills Info
• Job Outlook
Career Advice Australia Presentation (PDF 1.8MB)
Skills Australia is an independent statutory body, providing advice to the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations on Australia’s current, emerging and future workforce skills needs and workforce development needs.
Skills Australia has been established with the objective of providing for expert and independent advice in relation to Australia’s workforce skills needs and workforce development needs, in order to:
- identify training priorities to respond to those needs;
- increase workforce participation;
- improve productivity and competitiveness;
- identify and address skills shortages; and
- promote the development of a highly skilled workforce.
The National Skills Policy Collaboration has released a ten-point plan to meet Australia's skills challenges head on. The statement by leading employer and union groups calls for significant action, innovative thinking and creative solutions to address Australia's skills crisis. The statement highlights ten steps integral to improving the quality and capacity of Australia's workforce, including:
Renewed focus on apprenticeship completions
A long-term strategy to improve Australia's investment in education and training
Skill infrastructure partnerships between public and private sectors
Lifting Year 12 or certificate III completion rates
A national vision and consensus on the future of TAFE
A review of the traineeship program.
The group consists of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Australian Industry Group (Ai Group), Australian Education Union (AEU), Dusseldorp Skills Forum (DSF) and Group Training Australia (GTA). It will be conducting a roundtable in coming months to communicate the plan and to engage with other stakeholders.
More information on the plan is available from the National Skills Policy Collaboration brochure.
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