Australian Construction Employment Soars to Record Heights

As employment within the building sector soars to record heights, construction industry professionals such as site mangers, contracts administrators and forepersons/supervisors are in massive demand, a recent report says.

 

Releasing its April-June job market report, recruitment outfit Hays said demand for tradespeople across various states/territories is swelling amid an active market across most states and territories.

 

Demand is also strong across all levels within Victoria, where candidate shortages in Melbourne are expected to continue given a significant range of infrastructure and commercial construction projects and (for now) an extremely active residential and apartment market.

 

The report comes as employment levels within the construction sector soar to levels which have never been seen in Australia’s history.

 

Over the three months to February, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that Australia added 42,500 new building and engineering jobs to take the total sector workforce up to 1.115 million – up by a whopping 110,400 over the past three years.

 

All this is being driven by a surge in the residential sector, which has seen ground break on a whopping 457,665 new houses and apartments over the past two years.

 

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