Attracting overseas-trained engineers – video transcript
Hear Stacey and Kristine talk about the guide to employing overseas-trained engineers.
[Stacey Rawlings, Engineers Australia]
We held an event and one of the engineers in the room talked about their cultural diversity being their superpower.
Engineers Australia is the peak professional body for engineering in Australia.
[Kristine Banks, Consult Australia]
The organisation that I represent is Consult Australia and we're the voice of consulting businesses and design advisory and engineering.
[Stacey Rawlings]
Engineers are across pretty much every industry, so that can be anything from biomedical through to the building roads on the ground.
[Kristine Banks]
The workforce shortages are affecting the consulting industry, systemic shortages have been a problem in the industry, in civil engineering and structural engineering for decades.
[Stacey Rawlings]
The guide has been developed to help employers, to help them navigate the systems that exist, navigate the services that are available, and also navigate some of the things like the qualifications that engineers that come from overseas may have and how that fits into the Australian system.
[Kristine Banks]
There is a lot of research already that that evidence that it's, you know improving and working towards greater diversity inclusion in your business is best practice is a good thing to do and it will add value to your business.
Through my work in the guide, I see it as a great first step. It's a fantastic tool for businesses and employers to be able to use to review their processes, to check if there's any other avenues that they could be exploring to find potential employees.
[Stacey Rawlings]
In developing this guide, it's been great working with Consult Australia and the Queensland Government, it's been a real collaboration and I think the more we can collaborate on these outcomes, the better we will be.
Hear Stacey and Kristine talk about the guide to employing overseas-trained engineers.