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Unprecedented economic development in Western Australia indicates that up to 17,800 added skilled workers will be desperately required each year for the next ten years, according to a report launched right now by education and education minister Mark McGowan. Some of these skilled workers should come from Australia immigration.

The Beyond the Resources Boom study was commissioned by the State Education Board (STB), and examines Western Australia's economic development and the challenges faced by the state's workforce.

Skill shortages are set to stay a feature of the labour market, the report concludes, due to the strength of the economic climate and the ageing workforce. STB chairman Keith Spence said the demand would be met through a mixture of general population development, skilled immigration from interstate and overseas, and the development of local instruction initiatives.

Among the top performing occupations, in terms of projected annual common employment development among 2006 and 2016, are intermediate mining and construction workers, plumbers, structural construction tradespersons, and mining, construction and connected labourers. Demand for jobs in the mining and construction sectors is really higher and a downturn is considered unlikely.

Many of these occupations are on the Australia Skilled Occupation List and the Australia MODL (Migration Occupations in Demand List), which entitles men and women applying for Australian immigration to additional points.

Financial projections modelled by the report indicate there is unlikely to be a boom-bust scenario in the brief to medium phrase. This reflects the resource-driven construction boom, which is underpinned by powerful development in demand from China and record commodity rates, especially for the state's principal export, iron ore.

Skilled occupations at present make up nearly 60 per cent of the workforce and the report forecasts that general demand for higher skills in Western Australia is likely to remain constant as a proportion of the economic climate. Other skilled occupations in demand incorporate managers, administrators, pros, associate pros, tradespersons and related clerical, sales, transport and production workers. twitter followers