Lack of Skills Hamper Growth in Armidale, Australia
July 30 2008 by Ajay Hasija
In order to help businesses within Australia's rural areas to grow and succeed they need to attract more skilled professionals. This is according to various business representatives who met to discuss recruitment tactics in the Armidale region this week.
Many Armidale based firms believe that they are suffering due to a lack of skills; "therefore they need to attract more skilled migrants to the region on a temporary or permanent basis," says Thomas Nolan of immigration and visa experts www.globalvisas.com.
At this meeting hosted by the Northern Inland Regional Development Board, the effects of shortages in the labour market were explained by the 30 business representatives. For example a representative of Moonbi-based Andromeda Industries Group said that such lacks are preventing the business from running effectively.
"We're looking at getting into the aeronautical component making and the Strike Force Program for the defence department," explained Christine Kennedy of Moonbi-based Andromeda Industries. But she continues that locals will such skills are hard to find, therefore development of such initiatives are almost impossible.
Regional New South Wales need people with specific professions, such as engineering or health-care but they cannot fill these positions, it is ultimately due to this that they have to look abroad.
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