Australia to recruit accountants from Bangladesh
Australia will recruit some highly skilled accountants from Bangladesh.

/Politics News Articles/ - May 08, 2006 - Canberra is eyeing to Bangladesh to recruit some highly skilled Accountants while it has targeted Belgium for doctors and Germany for highly skilled trades people to overcome a critical shortage in the Australian state.

According to a recent report published in a Canberra daily shortage of highly skilled people in the island prompted the Chief Executive of the ACT Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chris Peters to chase for manpower.

Meantime, some western countries are also facing the same sort of shortage of skilled manpower that adversely affecting their routine works. However, Bangladeshi skilled people fail to go abroad for same standard of job, as their quality of English language is not up to the mark.

The ACT chamber is already chasing skilled workers in suburban Sydney, with the Live in Canberra campaign taking to the road this week to promote the benefits of living there.

Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said local newspaper that some seminars would be held in Penrith, Kogarah, Campbell town and Liverpool to attract people to live in Australia.

"With the market remaining buoyant, we anticipate high levels of permanent recruitment as employers seek to retain skills," a national report on job vacancies said.

Chris Peters recently said Australia had an increasing skills shortage, but Canberra had an acute shortage across most professions and all trades.

The position in Canberra had been exacerbated by seven years of strong business growth and Australia's lowest unemployment rate of little more than 3 per cent. About 10,000 young people left Canberra every year after tertiary study.

Mr Peters said Germany, with its high unemployment rate and highly skilled trades people, Belgium with a GP for every 300 people, and Bangladesh with a surplus of accountants, had come to his notice as suitable sources.

He said chamber members were willing to pay $120,000 a year for refrigeration mechanics, but there were none available.

The job vacancy report says the engineering industry in Canberra does not look like slowing down. There were vacancies in all major consultancies for temporary and permanent staff and every area of engineering had a lack of applicants. Many retirements due to the ageing population had also created a big turnover at the executive level.

The Live in Canberra campaign, which was launched early last month, was aimed at skilled workers from Sydney's south-west as part of a long-term solution to Canberra's chronic workforce shortages.

The Government and a number of corporate partners, including The Canberra Times, spent $300,000 on the marketing blitz, which had bipartisan political support.

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