Skills shortage in Canberra?

It wouldn’t have anything to do with the amount of people retiring would it folks? Leaves an employment and corporate knowledge vacuum.

It’s not the dep’ts that are dragging the chain on clearances; the mob who do them are short-staffed

They’re addressing this. They’ve hired some people with more to come and the backlog has started to reduce. It had to, even internal clearance renewals were being affected.

It’s not the dep’ts that are dragging the chain on clearances; the mob who do them are short-staffed.

There’s people out there, with the skills, but still employers (and more, the agencies they hire) are very narrow in their view of what they want. Anything outside the box, and their eyes glaze over. Has always been the way.

The shortage is not just in the IT industry. I am in sales and I struggling to find staff after 9 weeks of advertising.

BTW if anyone wants a job selling phones, car audio, accessories, home entertainment and has some sales experience please let me know at scowoden@strathfield.com.au

we need people for Civic and Woden.

re the IT industry.. because of this shortage, our agency gets contractors in from Syd, Melb, bris to fill the void.. these guys get paid mega(enough to make the hassel worth while after paying weekly flights and rent). we have nicknamed em mercenaries.. im a local mercenary.
like VY said, if you are cleared to say around Secret or TSNV you can get a job anywhere and get good $$$.. id suggest the construction industry is in the same boat with us having to import the workforce from interstate to get the seemingly endless string of projects running on time(but most likely over budget).. will take a while to fill the gaps

*pigs out on oysters*

From a private sector perspective, there is a massive IT skills shortage in Canberra because of all the big projects that are currently running with govco, and the big ones coming up. Because most of these require some level of security clearance (and most depts take their sweet time doing these), there is something of a barrier to entry if you’re looking for a job. If you have the right skillset and a current clearance, though, the world is your oyster.