In a recent interview with Careers at Council, Ballina Shire Council’s General Manager, Paul Hickey, and Manager of People and Culture, Fran Summerfield, shared insights into the council's commitment to diversity, innovation, and its range of work opportunities.

Infrastructure Skills Shortage Crisis Councils are continuing to report difficulties in attracting quality employees as they compete with other industries for a reduced supply of labour. Overlaying the current situation are predictions of serious skills shortages related to future public infrastructure investment. According to Infrastructure Australia’s 2021 Infrastructure Market Capacity Report, “Australia is on the cusp…

The recently released report by the National Skills Commission (NSC), State of Australia’s skills 2021: now and into the future examines Australia’s current, emerging and future workforce skills needs. The report finds that our workforce skills needs have been impacted by: A shift to higher skilled jobs, increasing the importance of further education and training An ongoing…

Careers at Council has been working with Joint Organisations in regional NSW to promote employment opportunities in member councils. The first campaign was run in the Riverina region in early November 2021, targeting engineers and professionals both within and outside of the region. The campaign also included a more general call to candidates about the…

Council Planners fulfil a vital role to ensure the strategic and sustainable growth of our cities and our regions. Right now, the shortage of Planners throughout Australia has reached critical levels. It’s important for councils to ensure they’re reaching the best talent available – Careers at Council makes that possible with targeted media campaigns that…

With increases in Users, Pageviews and Job listings, FY20/21 was a year of impressive growth for Careers at Council. We’re excited about the future and building on what we’ve achieved. We know there’s still plenty of work to do, as the need to create a future-ready local government workforce continues to grow.

Employment in local government is expected to increase by 4.9% or 7,200 employees by November 2025, according to recently released projections by the National Skills Commission. The Commission’s fiveyear employment outlook projects a continual shift to service industries, with the greatest growth likely in health care and social assistance, accommodation and food services, professional, scientific and…

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Last month Careers at Council celebrated its first birthday.  What a year it has been – with so many Australian communities adversely effected by COVID-19 and the devastating bush fires at the beginning of the year, conditions have been challenging. Despite this, Careers at Council has grown; we have been officially recognised by the Commonwealth…

The reality of youth unemployment in Australia. Young Australians may have the lowest risk of health complications from COVID-19, but history tells us that the financial and economic fallout from the pandemic will hit this group the hardest. In the coming years, our youth will be navigating a highly impacted job market, and very different…

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