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Research predicts another two years of record growth in Australia's construction industry:
Building booms as skills demand grows
Construction Training Package News
Civil workforce development project reports:
- Part I: Researching the Issues
- Part II: The Training Response
Construction Industry Training Board
The Construction Industry Skills Board (ISB)
The Construction ISB was set up as a workforce development project for the construction industry in South Australia. The ISB is funded by the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology.
What is Workforce Development
Workforce development is a broad concept that aims to improve entire industry workforces by an assortment of strategies and techniques including population policy, migration initiatives, health and retirement policies, industrial and human resource policies as well as training policies.
Within the Construction Industry, workforce development includes:
- plan - workforce planning
- attract - attracting people to the industry
- recruit - source, screen, select, induct
- manage - personnel management
- develop - training and experience
- retain - work retention strategies
- return - keeping older workers
