Matching Skilled Workers to Employers
May 9th, 2006 | Published in Immigration
The government has announced that the increased numbers in this year’s immigration programme – 20,000 extra places – will be maintained next year.
The migration programme in 2006-07 of up to 144,000 places will be made up of 97,500 places in the Skill Stream and 46,000 places in the Family Stream.
“This year we have worked extremely hard to increase the proportion of skilled migrants sponsored by employers or States and regions,” said the Minister for Immigration, Amanda Vanstone
“We have done this by matching skilled migrants with employers through a number of avenues including skills expos; the availability of Regional Outreach Officers; and for the first time this year Industry Outreach Officers.”
- Employer sponsored migration is up 22 percent. In the nine months to the end of March 12,000 employer sponsored visas were granted.
- State sponsored and regional migration (SSRM) visas is up 50 percent over the same period.
- The number of migrants with occupations on the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL) will quadruple to almost 40,000 people. Numbers were approximately 10,000 in 2004-05.
“The figures demonstrate that we are matching skilled migrants to areas of need better than ever before,” Senator Vanstone said.
“This is why these migrants are performing exceptionally well in the labour market. We intend to further refine that matching in the upcoming financial year.”
