If you’re looking for work, it pays to know which skills are in demand so you can adjust your resume and pick up additional qualifications as needed. The following report from online recruitment agency Search Party reveals the top ten skills employers are currently looking for in each Australian state and territory.
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Search Party previously released the top ten skills in Australia based on the most commonly requested skills from employers. Now, it has broken down its data state by state.
While sales and accounting came out on top nationally, that was not the case for all states and territory. Depending on where you live, these are the skills you might want to consider honing:
NSW
- Accountancy
- Sales
- Business Development
- Contract Management
- Key Performance Indicators
- Mentoring
- SAP
- Administrative Support
- Collaboration
- Repair
Victoria
- Mentoring
- Sales
- Accountancy
- Business Development
- Key Performance Indicators
- Contract Management
- Policy Development
- Store Management
- Administrative Support
- First Aid
Queensland
- Accountancy
- Sales
- Contract Management
- Business Development
- Mentoring
- Repair
- Key Performance Indicators
- Procurement
- SAP
- Data Entry
South Australia
- Accountancy
- Sales
- Repair
- Screening
- Business Development
- Contract Management
- Store Management
- Merchandising
- Cleaning
- Data Entry
Western Australia
- Repair
- Accountancy
- Contract Management
- Business Development
- Forklift Operation
- SAP
- Sales
- Key Performance Indicators
- Screening
- Store Management
Northern Territory
- Contract Management
- Repair
- Merchandising
- Store Management
- Accountancy
- Business Development
- Key Performance Indicators
- Forklift Operation
- SAP
- Procurement
Tasmania
- Health and Human Services
- Mentoring
- Policy Development
- Repair
- Accountancy
- Student Learning Outcomes
- Business Development
- Administrative Support
- Store Management
- Sales
Australian Capital Territory
- Contract Management
- Procurement
- Accountancy
- Administrative Support
- Business Development
- Business Analysis
- SAP
- ITIL
- Business Process
- Mentoring
According to Search Party CEO Ben Hutt, there has been a shift across Australian towards “soft” skills such as business development, sales and contract management. There’s also good news for developers willing to learn new skills in emerging industries:
“New and emerging jobs such as data scientists and user experience (UX) designers will be highly popular in 2016,” Hutt explained. “Companies are getting more sophisticated with how they use data and it is defining business success…Interaction design is becoming more and more important as brands engage consumers from slick websites to integrated brand engagement across wearable devices.”
[Via Business Insider]
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4 responses to “Revealed: The Most Sought-After Job Skills In Each Australian State”
So these are among the most sought-after job skills.
Key Performance Indicators
Mentoring
Repair
Screening
I wonder if they represent unfilled vacancies because they’re poorly defined?
KPI’s – how are they a skill?
Mentoring – in what subject area?
Repair – of what, washing machines, tax policy. the health system?
Screening – cancer victims, potential recruits, nursery seedlings, privacy barriers?
I used to have little faith in the recruitment industry, now I have less.
Well said! I thought the exact same thing as soon as a saw KPI as a skill?
Spot on. When I saw mentoring I thought “Like, what, street kids or something?”
Leave it to recruitment agencies to just spit out meaningless buzzwords and further confuse people.
Sounds more like the top ten words used in job descriptions.