Archive for May 2026

If you hold an auto electrical qualification in Australia, the market is working strongly in your favour. Dealerships with workshops and fleet operators including specialist service centres are all looking for qualified auto electricians, and there are no way near enough of them to go around. I recruit for automotive roles in Melbourne and Sydney…

If you run a service department or workshop and you have tried to hire a qualified auto electrician recently, you know how difficult it can be. Roles are sitting open for weeks and applications come through often but don’t match the role. In the meantime, your existing team is absorbing this gap. Dealerships and workshops…

If you are trying to hire a skilled tradesperson or qualified manufacturing operator in Melbourne right now, you already know how tight it is. Roles that might have filled in two weeks a few years ago are now sitting open for six, eight, sometimes ten weeks. Applications are coming in, but the right ones are…

One of the questions I get asked a lot is which sectors are actually hiring right now. People want to know where the work is, where the demand is real, and where they should be paying attention if they’re either running a business in the space or looking for their next move as a tradesperson.…

Sovereign capacity has become one of those phrases that gets thrown around in policy papers, ministerial speeches, and industry conferences. Everyone agrees Australia needs more of it. Fewer people are willing to sit down and answer the harder question, which is what sovereign capacity actually looks like when you walk into a workshop on a…