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26/03/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
A recent post at the Harvard Business Review Blog Network advises women to leave photographs off their resume. In a digital age where it’s common to provide a photo for every social media profile, including Facebook and LinkedIn, putting one on your resume could actually hurt your chances of getting a job.
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25/03/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
If you’re working on an engineering degree and expect to be finished this year, you might want to have a look at the Macmahon Graduate Program. Expressions of interest are currently being taken for ambitious and enthusiastic students in a variety of engineering and HSE disciplines.
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24/03/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Our blog tackled some of the myths about bringing in foreign workers with a ‘must read’ post about migration. The good news of the week centred around a new ‘tradies’ training scheme announced by PM Gillard to get Australians up-skilled and re-skilled. While everyone had their eye on Port Hedland and Cyclone Lua, Mother Nature walloped Townsville with an unexpected tornado. Miners were warned to watch their weight as some of the big mining companies reportedly have a 120kg weight limit that applies to jobseekers, as well.
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23/03/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Five skills sets are considered to be extremely critical for the long-term growth of the resource industry. Workers wanting oil and gas jobs, energy jobs or mining jobs in Australia would be well advised to pursue education or training to qualify for one of these roles. Additionally, a worker with some industry experience or skills in any of these areas may want to consider up-skilling or re-skilling to complete a qualification.
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22/03/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
The resource industry in Australia has undertaken a special project to help facilitate workforce planning. Part of this project is to identify critical job roles for the industry and, significantly, the key roles suffering the most exposure when it comes to current supply. Here’s the good news for nearly everyone seeking a mining job or an energy career – skilled trades are in demand just as much as professions requiring university degrees.
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21/03/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Recent reports indicate a growing number of miners are having trouble maintaining a healthy weight. It’s no surprise when you consider the long shifts most mining jobs require. Compound it with a camp kitchen offering plenty of food and even people who never experienced a weight problem before may begin to see a creep on the bathroom scales. The problem isn’t limited to current employees. Employers are beginning to consider the weight of jobseekers, too.
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20/03/2012 05:00 AM / Jules Pedrosa, Manager of Migration Services, AMMA
As mainstream media coverage continues to recount the myths and mistruths, AMMA’s Manager of Migration Services Jules Pedrosa has provided us with the real story about the use of migrant workers in the resource industry.
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19/03/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Have you ever had one of those moments when you wanted to do something to help but weren’t sure what? Steve Andrews from Black Dog Ride (BDR) knows what that feels like. Wanting to help bring awareness about depression and suicide prevention, he hopped on a motorcycle in a one-man attempt to ‘do something’. As it turns out, a lot of people felt like that was something they could do, too.
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18/03/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
Engineers Australia has sent out an appeal for all engineers in Australia to get involved in the EngQuest initiative. Designed to encourage little kids and young children to think about engineering careers, EngQuest works with primary and middle schools to build awareness about engineering.
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17/03/2012 05:00 AM / AMMA Mining Oil and Gas Jobs
It doesn’t take long before we come around to our two favourite subjects – the resources boom and the skills shortage. Most jobseekers already know it’s not easy breaking in but it was encouraging to read the real demand for workers is going to start rolling out over the next three years. Gina Rinehart is going ahead with a new mining project and Rio Tinto created a mining chair at the University in New South Wales. While we might all be thinking green for St. Patrick’s Day, in WA it’s all about gold.
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