Comments on: Overseas recruitment likely as NBN skills shortage looms http://www.peoplebank.com.au/blog/2010/03/10/overseas-recruitment-likely-as-nbn-skills-shortage-looms/ Peoplebank Updates Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Gerard http://www.peoplebank.com.au/blog/2010/03/10/overseas-recruitment-likely-as-nbn-skills-shortage-looms/comment-page-1/#comment-1599 Gerard Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:23:59 +0000 http://www.peoplebank.com.au/blog/?p=552#comment-1599 I think Paul Budde is absolutely right in saying that currently retired telecom engineers and copper network engineers should be given to training. There are lot of matured under employed talent since Telstra privatisation exercise took place. The existing Telco organisation are short of technical people need for the roll-out of the fibre cable deployments as well IP and ATM Engineers as most of the equipment knowledge has been left with the Supplier like Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent. So there is very little equipment specific knowledge out there because non of these Supplier have any public accessible courses so that anyone can up skill or get themselves "shovel ready" for the federal government’s $43 billion NBN project. This is nothing new ! This nation keep on repeating the same mistakes every year and yet we have no funding or university and TAFE courses in this country ! Workplaces of the future will see more frequent transitions between work, education, family and retirement. As our economy grows, employers will need to source labour from all productive sectors of the community to meet demand. With people moving in and out of the workforce in more flexible ways the experience of older Australians can add to productivity and fill some of these labour gaps. Consultative Forum on Mature Age Participation, ACCI Chief Executive Peter Anderson said that industry should come forward with practical ideas on how the skills and experience of older Australians can be better harnessed for the benefit of our economy and society. I think Paul Budde is absolutely right in saying that currently retired telecom engineers and copper network engineers should be given to training. There are lot of matured under employed talent since Telstra privatisation exercise took place. The existing Telco organisation are short of technical people need for the roll-out of the fibre cable deployments as well IP and ATM Engineers as most of the equipment knowledge has been left with the Supplier like Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent. So there is very little equipment specific knowledge out there because non of these Supplier have any public accessible courses so that anyone can up skill or get themselves “shovel ready” for the federal government’s $43 billion NBN project. This is nothing new ! This nation keep on repeating the same mistakes every year and yet we have no funding or university and TAFE courses in this country !

Workplaces of the future will see more frequent transitions between work, education, family and retirement. As our economy grows, employers will need to source labour from all productive sectors of the community to meet demand. With people moving in and out of the workforce in more flexible ways the experience of older Australians can add to productivity and fill some of these labour gaps.

Consultative Forum on Mature Age Participation, ACCI Chief Executive Peter Anderson said that industry should come forward with practical ideas on how the skills and experience of older Australians can be better harnessed for the benefit of our economy and society.

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