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11/04/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
What are your best chances for breaking into a mining job? How do you get an offshore job if you don’t have any experience? We frequently see the ‘apply for anything and everything tactic’ used by jobseekers eager to gain traction with hiring managers. Guess what? It doesn’t work. In fact, it could hurt your chances of ever getting a job.
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10/04/2012 05:00 AM / Kyla Jones, Site Director, AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
If ‘How do I break into mining?’ is the most frequent question we hear, the second most common query we get is about tickets, licenses and certificates. We asked industry employers what they would recommend we tell jobseekers who wonder what investment helps their employment chances and which don’t. Now we know two things for sure.
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09/04/2012 05:00 AM / Tom Reid, AMMA Media and Government Relations Advisor
As a major skills shortage threatens the ongoing prosperity of resources operations across the country, the Australian Women in Resources Alliance (AWRA) has been created to further develop and engage one of the greatest underutilised sources of talent – women.
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08/04/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
On this Easter holiday, everyone at AMMA miningoilandgasjobs.com wishes you a happy and safe long weekend. If you happen to have pulled the short straw on your roster, make sure to have at least one or two chocolate eggs at the end of your shift. We’ll be back tomorrow with a terrific post about women in the resource industry.
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07/04/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
The week leading up to Easter has had a fair bit of news about the resource industry. Xtrata announced a deal to supply coal to Japan, Australian miners perform well at international mining games and UWA and Rio Tinto are embarking on a research project on Aboriginal rock art. Australia and the USA announced a deal to bring American workers in to help close the skills gap. The wage rise for apprentices is causing some real concern within the industry.
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06/04/2012 05:00 AM / Sarah Mitchell, Director at AMMA miningoilandgasjobs.com
Love it or hate it, a new survey on social media usage in the hiring process indicates it can both hurt and help you in your job search. Sarah Mitchell, Director – Site Content at AMMA miningoilandgasjobs.com reports on how social media is changing everything about getting a job in the resources industry.
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05/04/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
If you’re an operations manager, mine manager or safety officer in Australia, the new Mining Industry Guide to Workplace Safety is now available free of charge. Here’s the best part, anyone working in a registered business in the Mining and Exploration industry can get a copy just by requesting it.
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04/04/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
If you haven’t heard, the inaugural AMMA miningoilandgasjobs.com Jobs Expo is on its way to Perth. Held over three days in May, we’re planning on making it the most informative event of its kind. But we need your help.
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03/04/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
How come if Australia is experiencing a skills crisis, the only jobs being advertised are for engineers? If you're working in the trades or working as a labourer, it would be easy to think it's all a hoax. While the media has made much of the skills shortage, a lot of people just aren't seeing evidence to support the claims. All that is about to change.
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02/04/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Have you heard about the competitions Rock Candy Magazine is running in their inaugural issue? They have three different things on the go, each with some pretty sweet prizes attached. You don't have to do a lot to win so if you have some time on your hands between now and 13 April, why not get busy and enter?
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