Career Investigation: Australian Labour Market Trends and Opportunities in Healthcare

REPORT ON CAREER INVESTIGATION
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Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary...............................................................................................................2
2. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
2.1 Purpose of the report........................................................................................................3
3. Research and Analysis...........................................................................................................3
3.1 Australia’s labour market trends......................................................................................4
3.1.1 Employment trend in national and state level...........................................................4
3.12. Employment trend in health care industry................................................................6
3.2 Career opportunities in disability service and aged care sector.......................................8
3.3 Intercultural challenges faced by international students..................................................9
4. Job searching plan and recommendation.............................................................................10
5. Conclusion:..........................................................................................................................11
6. Reference List......................................................................................................................12
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1. Executive Summary
The goal of this article is to provide current status in Australian labour market which includes
developments at national and state level. This can additionally be helpful to facilitate the
information associated with techniques and strategy to locate employment inside the
Australian labour market for the favoured career. The selected career is the healthcare
segment with a particular emphasis on nursing career. This report will also be beneficial by
offering know-how to international college students to find task without problems inside the
Australia in healthcare career as a registered nurse. Not being a native student is hard enough
to locate appropriate opportunity due to distinction in culture. The cultural challenge makes it
hard to alter the situation. But, the awareness of professional development techniques make it
smooth to perform career search in the discipline of interest.
The article’s objective is to suggest way on how to develop a career in Australian continent
by means of knowing labour market tendencies in exclusive sector at state and nationwide
stage. This report comprises of the introduction, research and discussion section in which
detailed trend of labour market at state and national stage, market trend in healthcare segment
and employment possibilities in aged care and disability services have been provided. This
not only focuses on the future, but additionally on present day job employment opportunity
and development.
The point of attention for this report is healthcare segment with emphasis on aged care and
disability services. Statistics were gathered from the governmental and official authorities
‘official website. The description consists of the developments and challenge in labour
market at nationwide and state level, challenge and tendencies in healthcare segment and
recommendations to cope with extraordinary demanding situations and techniques for
employment opportunity.
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2. Introduction
2.1 Purpose of the report
Proper employment is necessary to sustain the basic necessities of life and to live a life good
and healthy manner (Margolis, 2014). In order for proper and appropriate employment, right
career choice is also important so, that the employment process after the completion of an
educational degree can be easy and smooth. To choose right career, analysis of current
market trend is absolute necessity and it can help with the choice of proper and appropriate
career path (Mourshed, Farrell & Barton, 2013). Hence, the aim of this article is to provide
through analysis of the current status on Australian labour market with respect to chosen
employment sector in health service area. The sectors that will be analysed in this report are
the aged care and disability services. A detailed and through analysis in these sector will be
analysed with the view of career relevancy and opportunity in the fore mentioned sector. In
order to do that past and future employment and unemployment data will be analysed in this
report. Not only that, this report will also look into the future perspectives and possible future
development will be taken in to consideration while developing the report. The goal of this
report is to provide a holistic solution in case of job opportunity and future perspective in the
area of aged care and disability services. This report will also discussed role various
recruitment agencies play in the employment of the college graduates. The main goal is to
provide future students with proper analysis of the Australia’s current job market in the aged
care and disability services along with future trends in these sectors.
3. Research and Analysis
In this section, a detailed analysis will be provided on the current status of the Australia’s
labour market trends. This report will analysis both the state and national level employment
and labour market trend. In addition to the above, it will also look in to the job market and
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