Professional Employability: Industry Trends, Skills, and Networking

This report provides a comprehensive overview of professional employability within the Australian engineering industry. It delves into current recruitment trends and practices, highlighting the shift towards online sources such as job boards, websites, and social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. The report emphasizes the importance of search engine optimization and the emerging science of recruitment sourcing. It underscores the critical role of networking and relationship building in fostering career development, including strengthening relationships, gaining access to new information and opportunities. Furthermore, the report discusses career motivation, performance metrics, and the significance of skills such as negotiation, conflict resolution, and smart actions in achieving professional objectives. It emphasizes the need for productivity, efficiency, education, and effective communication to achieve career goals, offering insights into short, medium, and long-term career planning within the engineering field.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Recruitment trends and practices.....................................................................................................2
Job boards....................................................................................................................................2
Websites.......................................................................................................................................2
Social media.................................................................................................................................2
Search engine optimization..........................................................................................................3
Emerging science of recruitment sourcing...................................................................................3
Role of networking and relationship building.................................................................................3
Strengthening relationship...........................................................................................................4
Raised profile...............................................................................................................................4
New information..........................................................................................................................4
Access to opportunities................................................................................................................5
Career motivation............................................................................................................................5
Increase the performance metrics................................................................................................5
Degree and professional certificate..............................................................................................5
Get a promotion...........................................................................................................................6
Skills................................................................................................................................................6
Art of negotiation.........................................................................................................................6
Conflict resolution and problem solving......................................................................................6
Smart actions...................................................................................................................................6
Productivity (specific)..................................................................................................................6
Efficiency (measurable)...............................................................................................................7
Education (attainable)..................................................................................................................7

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Network (relevant).......................................................................................................................7
Develop communication skills (timely).......................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Recruiting practices are important to gain the success. Recruiting and retaining the top
talent is not only prior job within the industry but it is a job which is instilled within the industry
culture. Trends and practices in Australian engineering industry are to deliver a wider indication
of direction regarding engineering labour market. Trends present the recovery regarding the
engineering vacancies to end of 2019 and expected to regular in line with prediction of wider
economic recovery (Australian Human Right Commission, 2020). The following discussion will
discuss the trends, practices, roles of networking, and skills which are necessary to gain success
within the engineering industry of Australia.
Recruitment trends and practices
Recruitment trends and practices within engineering industry of Australia are shifted to
online sources. Following are the particular trends emerging from online advertising regarding
vacancies of job.
Job boards
Organizations within the engineering industry reach to huge number of job seekers. A
specialised and generalised job board promotes the vacancies across industry and sector, levels
of skills, and employment types. Many organizations within the engineering industry posted the
recruitment vacancies on the careers, business, and vacancies websites. Practices reflect
increased emphasis on the employer’s reputation that is looking to high quality employees.
Websites
There is rise within the number of vacancies search aggregator websites which crawl sites
for vacancies. These kinds of websites find vacancies on boards of job, recruitment agency
websites, employer, and present them to job seekers within a single search. Organizations within
the engineering industry post vacancies to optimize employment sites to aggregator services and
find re-distribute for vacancies (Carr, 2020).

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Social media
Social media is also playing a very big and increasing role within the recruitment trends
and practices in engineering industry of Australia. LinkedIn is used by many recruiters to
broadcast vacancies to professionals. Facebook and Twitter as social media tools are used by
many recruiters to present the professional and personal network to advertise vacancy
everywhere. Social media is used by many organizations to research the specific candidates that
apply for roles. Job searchers conduct researcher on particular employees and also use the crowd
sourced forums to research employers, practices of employment, recruitment, questions of
interviews, insights, and styles. These kinds of web sources lead to new transparency within the
process of recruitment procedure for stakeholders like applicants, agencies of recruitments, and
candidates (Almeida, et al., 2015).
Search engine optimization
Sharing the information is positive for increasing the efficiency of process of recruitment.
Recruiters within the engineering industry of Australia are still developing the rules and
regulations regarding ethical and legal navigation of resources. Organization within the
engineering industry of Australia is likely to use the services of recruitment agencies. Industry
works hard to adapt the online advertisement, new domestic laws of health and safety present a
code regarding ethical and educate members regarding non-discriminatory practices. Market
implication shake out as engineering industry recruitment trends and practices undergoes within
the professionalization process. Professionalism is driven through the market forces and efforts
of recruiting and consulting services create quality, credibility, and ethics (Ahsan, Ho, & Khan,
2013).
Emerging science of recruitment sourcing
The recruitment science has broadened that includes science of recruitment sourcing.
There is increased focus on the recruitment pool source. Organizations in engineering industry of
Australia has the objective to improve the return on recruitment as conduct yield analysis for
evaluation that which channel (social media, career websites, print advertising) bring the high
level of volume of suitable applicants.

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Role of networking and relationship building
Networking and relationship building is a meaningful way to exchange the important
information as build the social capital to improve outcomes of employment within the
engineering industry of Australia. These establish the long-term mutual beneficial relationship to
work together and gain the high level profits. Networking and relationship building help to
develop and improve skills by developing the career of employees (Gronum, Verreynne, &
Kastelle, 2012).
Strengthening relationship
Networking and relationship building is effective to share the information and forming
the trust which lead to gain the desire objectives. Continuously engage the contact at social level
by serving them and build the many options to assists and strengthen the working relations. It is
done by referring contracts regarding relevant interest, arrangement of introductions with shared
contract and congratulate through LinkedIn to reach the milestone. It remains the effective for
reciprocal assistance and helps to achieve the employment outcomes within the engineering
industry of Australia (Brunetto, et al., 2012).
Raised profile
Networking and relationship building are worked as an excellent source for visibility and
getting notice. These enable to continuously attend social and professional events which support
to make the face known. These works to create values for attendees through listening, following
conversations, offer the knowledge and expertise to grab the opportunities. Networking and
relationship building help to generate the effective outcome for employment as raise the social
capital through reliable knowledgeable, and supportive employees of profession through offering
important information or tips to others that need it. Raise the employment profile through
professional circles that help to stand out to recruiters that are regularly on the lookout regarding
strong talent and may be more likely to approach with many offers (Axelsson, & Easton, 2016).
New information
Relationship building and networking are useful opportunities to exchange the best
practical knowledge, learn regarding the business techniques of peers and stay updated with the
industry latest developments. Broader network regarding informed interconnected contact

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presents the wider access to valuable and new information. These bring an opportunity to collect
new information and offer the career development and career progression opportunities. These
set the ideas for effective development of techniques and bring the more mutual benefits and
opportunities to grow and learn. Networking and relationship building are leads to create the
strong career fulfillment with progression and opportunities within the engineering industry of
Australia (Fulford, & Standing, 2014).
Access to opportunities
Expanding the relations and networking helps the businesses to open doors for new
opportunities, advancement of career, growth, and simply increase the new knowledge. These
helps to keep the top of mind while opportunities comes raise and increase the likelihood to
receive introductions of relevant employees or referral as help to situate appropriate employee to
increase the positive outcome for businesses. These also lead to advancement of employees
careers as the effective way to provide the opportunities to them (Dodgson, 2018).
Career motivation
It is desire to exert effort to improve objectives of career. This is known as the
multidimensional concept which combines requirement elements, interests, and personality
characteristics which reflects stimulus, persistence, and direction of career related behaviors.
Career motivation will be organized within the three domains such as career insight, identity, and
resilience. Career insight will be stimulus or energizing component. It will be a capability to
remain the realistic regarding careers. This is suitable as work known the own strengths and
weaknesses. Following will be career motivations to formulate short, medium, and long term
goals.
Increase the performance metrics
Performance metrics will play the important role as present the efficiency at work.
Improvement of performance metrics will help to ensure and increase the satisfaction of
customers, and delivering the projects before the deadlines and help to minimize the organization
costs and build the reputation within the business and make the easier options to formulate and
achieve the short term goals.

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Degree and professional certificate
This will be significant as the professional to regularly focusing on the education as help
to remain updates and present within the profession. Courses at upper level will support to grow
and improve the skillset and help to make the more valuable assets. This will as the proactive
step in regular education and help to invest in something which help to improve the career as the
medium term goals.
Get a promotion
Promotion as the long term goal will help to remain the motivated regarding career and
realistic to achieve them. This will work as the realistic target as top within the priority of
vocational skills with soft skills and ensure that display quality which are valued within the
business.
Skills
This is very important to evaluate the skills that are necessary to achieve the short term
career objectives and lay out the detailed plan regarding actions (Chandrasekaran, et al., 2013).
Following are the skills which are necessary to perfectly achieve the exceptional results and
accomplish the professional objectives.
Art of negotiation
This is one of the most difficult skills. It is significant to develop with appropriate
practices and education. This is strength and helps to work according the requirements to
develop and maximize the values out of investments and each task. It will also help to listen
others points of views and reach to agreement that satisfy the involvement of everyone. For
development it is important to regularly focus and learn the new knowledge with regular
practices.
Conflict resolution and problem solving
This is important to have the problem solving and conflict resolution skills such as
planning and implementation to achieve the desire objectives. This will works as strength to
ensure and achieve the objectives by solving issues. For development it will be necessary to rank
with stirring up resentment.

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Smart actions
Smart actions are important and work effectively to improve the strengths skills which
are necessary to achieve the objectives (Adnan, et al., 2017). Following actions will work to
strengthen and increase the skills.
Productivity (specific)
This is important to remain the productive as help to maintain the performance and
identify the objectives which help to produce the appropriate and effective results as an
important step for moving to professionalism. This kind of objective will refer the capability to
regularly work and achieve the particular standards.
Efficiency (measurable)
This is a similar strain to productivity. This will be an ability to gain desire result within
the career and workplace. Progression within the career makes efficiency different and crucial
for development. Efficiency objective will work with the speed, consistency, and accuracy which
help to produce the strong results with the high level of standards.
Education (attainable)
This refers to capability to develop within the objectives and workplace. This will be
effective to gain knowledge evolve and look to gain new techniques. It will be effective to seek
the new opportunities and learn new things as lead to develop the knowledge and gain the new
skills. These will work as the investment and keep at the sharp edge regarding development and
help to put ahead within the competitive environment.
Network (relevant)
In order to achieve the realistic short-term objective, it is important to gain the valuable
feedback and introduce the new opportunities. Improving the skills of networking will work to
collect the objectives and help to work as a professional in future. This will create the
understanding to set the professional network and identify the information very early and keep
up with the short term goal up to date.
Develop communication skills (timely)
This is important to receive and deliver the clear information as help to increase the
efficiency. Career goals will be effectively achieve by the written, verbal, and interpersonal

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communication skills. These will be strength as help to stand and deliver the presentation
comfortably. This will help to communicate appropriately and help in each aspect of life from
learner to professional. It enables to relate well with colleagues and customers with the available
opportunities. Developed communication skills will lead to improve the presentation,
interpersonal, and leadership skills.
Conclusion
In the limelight of the discussion it can be concluded that industries regularly works with
the trends and practices to serve better. Discussion covers the recruitment trends and practices of
engineering industry of Australia include recruitment through the job boards, websites, social
media, emerging science of recruitment sourcing, search engine optimization, and many more.
Further it covers the role of networking and relationship building such as new information,
strengthening relationship, new information, and many more within the engineering industry of
Australia. Further discussion covers skills and actions needed for the goals and career.

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