Employment potential for young people

Future Employment

Businesses are looking for over 330 employees in the next 2 years – a 25% increase in the workforce. Here is the opportunity to grow the entry-level jobs and training for young people.

From the Go Nagambie survey, the future job opportunities for young people are in multi-industry businesses (48%) followed by health and aged care (16%), mining (9%) and hospitality and equine (6%) (see Figure 6.1). The occupations sought are managers (15%) and other (15%), professional (13.2%), sales (13.2%) and technicians and trades (11.7%). Of these top five occupations only two sales and other do not require further education and work experience. Professionals and technicians and trades require tertiary qualifications that are obtained outside the region. (See Appendix B) and managers are the product of good career pathways.

6.1: Future Jobs By Industry