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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…

If you manage a truck dealership workshop or service department, you already know what I am about to say. The heavy diesel mechanic market is tight right? Your roles are sitting open for weeks. You’re either losing good candidates to competitors before you can move, or you are getting applications that do not match what…

If you’ve been on the tools 15+ years, the thought on changing jobs is something to consider You’re not chasing a pay increase for the sake of it. You’re weighing up the workshop culture, the quality of the fleet, the variety of the work, and how much your next employer is going to trust you…

It is one of the most common questions we hear from Melbourne employers: should we bring someone on directly, or use labour hire? On the surface it sounds like a simple decision. In practice, the right answer depends on your business, your workforce structure, and what you are actually trying to solve. Both models have…

Australia’s civil and industrial infrastructure sector has a fleet uptime of the single biggest driver of project delivery. When a vacuum truck goes down on a live sewer job, or a hydro excavation unit is parked waiting for a hydraulic diagnosis, the cost compounds their their crews standing around, and yet, the trade most critical…

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….