Good news for skilled immigrants! With Australia on the path to witness healthy economic growth, during the 2012-13 period beating the likes of the US and Britain, the situation on the skill front inside the nation has become worse. Constantly increasing job growth has brought in an industry-wide high requirement for trained workers to do jobs across the country.

Thanks to a scarcity of qualified workers, many job providers and employers from Down Under are finding it tough to pretty tough to cover job vacancies across several professions. In this connection, a report suggests that–to positively address the matter–over 50% of 2200 local job-providers, covered by the study inside the country, had serious issues covering vital job openings, of which not less than 35% of them were exploring overseas options from the countries of India, Britain & South Africa.

Certain other related reports reveal that the present year is likely to have a  very high requirement for skilled workers having skills in industries, including engineering, IT, mining, energy, agriculture, and healthcare & aged care, even while Down Under continues to find it tough to battle against crippling skill scarcities, in the process, leaving some companies and job-providers from the nation with no options except to explore foreign options and depend on the 457 skilled visa of the nation to meet the skills requirements.

The impressive growth seen across the sector of mining and involved port and rail infrastructure has invited an acute shortage of qualified engineers across all the domains, with civil engineers specifically in a very demand for the ever increasing number of construction & infrastructure projects of the nation.

There is also a very high demand for aged care nurses. According to an educated guess–and in the backdrop of the health workforce of the nation starting to retire in growing numbers–the nation requires an additional 22,000 aged care nurses even while the situation on this front likely to become worse over the course of the future 15 years or so.

Even as some Australian firms mull over increased pay packages to woo and keep workers–as a short-term remedy to the issue of skills shortage–a large number of firms/job providers are already hiring workers from abroad. Actually, with a view to assist areas and sectors which are battling with skill scarcities to meet the same, Immigration Australia has remarkably increased its yearly migration intake by 5,000 places in 2012.

Arriving in the country on skilled permits/visas will enable the migrants to live inside the country for a certain period of time, with complete work rights, and in case applicable, their mates, and possibly the best employment opportunities. In this kind of visa (457 skilled visa), the candidates should be from a profession battling with acute scarcity of skilled workers in the Kangaroo Land, which finds mention on the Skilled Occupations List (SOL), and which meets the terms with the visa requirements of the nation.