Career Opportunities in Australian Healthcare Industry - Desklib

Running head: PROFESSIONAL WORKPLACE PRACTICE
Professional Workplace Practice
Evaluate career opportunities within the current labour market with a specific focus on target
industry
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Executive Summary
In this report, evaluation of career opportunities within the recent Australian labour market is
revealed. The main focus is on the health care industry where the requirements of industry
thinking, employment trends, important considerations of career development and work
opportunities are explained. In the first section, labour market conditions in the health care
industry have been the main focus and in Australia, health care industry has been increasing in a
rapid way. National and state information, current employment and unemployment condition and
changing labour market condition have been described to show the acceleration of the health care
industry. In health care industry, aged care and community health have been chosen to show the
career path. In addition, multicultural challenges facing by the international students have been
described with the solution to overcome these challenges. In the recommendations section, three
organisations have been selected to find the employment opportunities. A job-searching plan is
given in order to find the opportunity. Lastly, strategies to improve the employability of the
future are provided.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
2. Australian labour market trends in Health Care industry............................................................3
National and state information of changing labour market conditions in Australia....................3
Current employment and unemployment figures in Australia.....................................................4
3. Career opportunities in healthcare sectors and occupations........................................................6
3.1 Aged care...............................................................................................................................7
3.2 Community health..................................................................................................................7
4. Intercultural challenges................................................................................................................8
5. Recommendations........................................................................................................................9
6. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................11
Reference List................................................................................................................................13

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1. Introduction
This report evaluates the career opportunities within the Australian labour market with a
specific focus on the healthcare industry. Two healthcare sectors, such as aged care and
community health have been chosen in order to explain viable option for the career path based on
the labour market research. This report is strived to identify the occupations that could apply in
each of the sectors based on the employees' skills, experience and interest. In the later section of
the report, intercultural challenges faced by the international students have been discussed.
Intercultural challenges can impact on career opportunities in Australia and this report tries to
find the strategies to overcome these challenges. In the recommendations section, a job-seeking
plan has been given with identifying the employability of the students for the future in the
healthcare sector.
2. Australian labour market trends in Health Care industry
In Australia, labour market conditions have been strengthened between the phase June
2016 and 2017. During that phase, the employment rate increased by 1.9% and that was above
the annual growth rate in past ten years in Australia (Bonoli 2017). However, the strong growth
rate of employment has been much in the part-time employment and it was clearly showing in
the aggregate monthly working hours. Most importantly, the largest increases in employment
were in health care as well as the social assistance and this figure touched the mark of 4.9%
(Wilkins 2017).