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Your trade certificate got you qualified. It won’t necessarily get you the job. Plant maintenance fitter roles in Melbourne and across Australia are highly competitive, and employers in manufacturing, food processing, utilities, and heavy industrial sectors have become more specific about what they want. The baseline is a Certificate III in Engineering Mechanical Trade. What…

One of the things I was not prepared for when I came back to work was how quickly it all came back. Things such as industry knowledge all came rushing back into the front of my mind, client conversations fluidly rolled off my tongue, the instincts I had built over years of doing this work…

There’s something happening in the BTR space right now that Melbourne employers haven’t fully clocked yet, and it’s worth talking about. Sydney’s build-to-rent pipeline has accelerated significantly over the past 18 months. New platforms are entering the market, institutional capital is moving, and operators are building out their teams faster than the local talent pool…

When businesses come to me looking for a heavy diesel mechanic, the conversation usually starts the same way. They need someone experienced, they need them soon, and they’re frustrated because the last few attempts to fill the role haven’t worked out. What I’ve noticed over time is that the frustration often comes from a gap…

When people ask me what I do now, I tell them I am a Client Relationship Manager at TRS Resourcing. And sometimes the follow-up question is: what does that mean exactly? As the role did not exist at TRS before I came back from parental leave. It was built around a gap in what the…

A few years ago, the term “technical blue collar” wasn’t widely used. Today it’s appearing in industry conversations, workforce planning documents, and recruitment briefs across Australia. At TRS Resourcing, we’ve been working in this space since our founding, and we believe the term matters because it draws an important distinction that too many businesses still…

Coming back to work after having a baby is quite the logistics challenge, but, it’s also a professional identity challenge too. Honestly I was nervous to have the conversation. Even after years in recruitment, knowing our clients and sectors well, there was a moment where I was not sure how to approach it. What made…

  A few weeks ago I was on a call with a candidate who is a brilliant operations coordinator. Ten years of experience in logistics, knows the industry backwards, well-regarded by everyone she has ever worked with. She had been out of the workforce for two years after her second child and was ready to…

A while back we had a situation at TRS that made me stop and think. We had an incredibly good person who had been with us for years. Sharp, reliable, the kind of team member you build your business around. And she needed to change the way she worked. Not because she wanted to work…

Mapei has broken ground on a $60 million manufacturing plant at Truganina in Melbourne’s west, and the project says something useful about where the construction and manufacturing labour market is heading. The plant will produce adhesives, sealants, concrete admixtures, waterproofing systems and protective coatings for major Victorian infrastructure works, including the Suburban Rail Loop and…

A TRS Resourcing guide for employers, HR leaders, and hiring managers. Look, most flexibility policies fail. And it’s not because the intent is wrong, or because the policy is bad. It’s that the role was never designed for the way it was going to be done. At the end of the day, the problem isn’t…

Hiring a Development Manager in Sydney sounds straightforward until the shortlist arrives and none of the candidates fit the brief. It’s one of the most common situations TRS Resourcing sees with boutique developers. Because the role gets quickly briefed, the ad goes Seek, and four weeks later the hiring manager is looking at five CVs…