Workforce Management
The top priorities in the mining workplace RECRUITMENT AGENCY HAYS PROVIDES ITS INDUSTRY OUTLOOK AND TIPS TO BE SUCCESSFUL WHEN AIMING TO PROGRESS IN THE WORKPLACE.
Uncompetitive salary drives many jobseekers looking for a new job.
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he next 12 months are set to reveal many job changes if 40 per cent of Australians surveyed follow through with their intention to look for new roles. Another 28 per cent of the 1600 professionals surveyed may join the throng, having admitted they’re potentially looking for a new job, though were ‘unsure’ at the time of enquiry, when surveyed by recruitment specialist Hays. The recruitment company finds that the discomfort with staying in the existing role is driven by a lack of promotional opportunities (53 per cent
of participants), a lack of new challenges (42 per cent), an uncompetitive salary (41 per cent), poor training and development (27 per cent), as well as poor work-life balance (27 per cent). These survey findings, unfortunately, do not gel well with the fact that the value of salary increases is reducing year-on-year, with 63 per cent of mining, resources, energy, oil and gas employers planning to increase salaries by a meagre three per cent or less. The percentage of employers granting the three per cent salary increase climbed on last year, as
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opposed to 54 per cent in the last review. Further, only five per cent of employers, down from seven per cent, intend to grant pay increases of more than six per cent. This company projection goes in tension with salary increases being the number one career priority of 57 per cent of mining and resources professionals this year, where 46 per cent intends to achieve this by asking their boss for a raise. “Evidently, the aggregate effect of several years of sedate salary increases is taking its toll and we’re now seeing a
