Emigrate to Australia: Canberra skills shortages

24 November 2016 by News Desk   |   SHARE  

Emigrate to Australia to live and work and you'll find employers are optimistic about their future and want to create more skilled jobs.

Emigrate to Australia where Canberra’s small businesses want to diversify and grow but a lack of skilled workers is hampering their expansion.

Eighty-one per cent of Canberra businesses polled in a new survey said they were as or more optimistic about the next 12 months than they were in the previous year.

More than 60 per cent of respondents said skills shortages were a barrier to growth opportunities.

Over 90 per cent of small to medium enterprises in Canberra want to grow their businesses.

Around 50 per cent of businesses said red tape involving employment is impeding expansion.

Canberra Business Chamber chief executive Robyn Hendry said city must focus on becoming an attractive place for international workers.

Emigrate to Australia: Skilled Workers Needed

“We have high intellect industries here so we tend to be an employer of skills in the areas of ICT in particular, and in education,” she said.

“We’re often trying to recruit the creme de la creme from Australia and around the world and there tends to be fierce competition for that talent.”

According to Deloitte Access Economics’ most recent Business Outlook, key local economic indicators for the ACT are looking better, and both retail and housing have been on the up.

The Deloitte Private SME Survey highlights a sense of confidence and optimism amongst local SMEs around their own prospects as well as the broader Canberra environment.

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