The number of vacant engineering jobs, both advertised and non-advertised is at an incredibly high level. Great engineering opportunities are in abundance and it is an ideal time to dust off your CV, update your profile and dip your toe back into the job market. Employers are exiting their hibernation mode created from the pandemic, […]

Unemployment dropped during the last quarter again and is now at 4.2% which is our lowest level since before the start of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. This trend reflects that companies have exited their hibernation modes and are hiring again. We have been inundated with our clients wanting us to fill some really […]

As the Eastern seaboard states are now starting to exit restrictions we have experienced a sharp increase in engineering positions needing to be filled. These are from many diverse engineering and manufacturing businesses. There’s a great mixture of businesses looking to recruit talented engineers at the moment. Of particular interest is a sizable group of […]

Although recent surveys of consumer and business sentiment have shown dips, we’re yet to see any impact from the current lockdowns in Melbourne & Sydney. There’s still a big shortage of engineering talent in Australia and up to this point, hiring has not been impacted. Through the year it’s progressively become much more challenging to […]

Our company has been operating for 42 years and it’s hard to recall a time when there has been so much demand for skilled talent. There are a number of factors coming together concurrently to cause this – the unemployment rate is dropping, business confidence is soaring in many sectors, immigration is at a standstill […]

A lot has changed in the last quarter with a very strong upsurge in the number of new opportunities that our team are working diligently on. Many clients appear to have come out of hibernation mode and are now looking forward to a brighter future, with the result that we saw a large number of […]

Recruitment activities continue to build momentum as we have seen an increasing level of demand over the past 3 months. We’re filling a wide range of interesting engineeringpositions across Australia, some advertised and others often not. Hence, if you are looking for a change or keen to see what roles might suit your area of […]

Overview During this last quarter, a significant milestone within Australia Wide was reached with one of our Directors, Greig Connell, deciding to retire from the business. Greig worked for the company since 1987 and had dealt with hundreds of clients and thousands of candidates, always with the same passionate, professional, and result focused approach. We have been inundated with well wishes […]

Overview Much has changed since our last commentary in January. Bushfires were finally extinguished but then a dramatic change with the COVID-19 pandemic with resulting social distancing, self isolations and lockdowns. From a duty of care perspective we have been extremely busy ensuring that our ~400 on-hired employees and all our internal staff were safe […]