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www.lycopodium.com.au
Lycopodium brings 19 years of global experience
to the mining, mineral processing, infrastructure,
renewables and process industries.
Through our offices in Australia, Ghana, Phillipines and
Canada we have successfully delivered major projects
and studies throughout the world, often in diverse
environments.
Our wide ranging experience has provided us with the
capabilities to deliver the best outcomes for our clients,
through innovative solutions and custom designs to meet
any challenge.
World Class Engineering
and Project Delivery
listed on the AEC’s online jobs board in the last six months,
making it the largest indigenous specific jobs board in Australia.
The jobs board data indicates that 60% of advertised jobs are in
metropolitan areas, with the remainder of jobs equally divided
between rural and remote areas. The data also indicates that
approximately 70% of jobs are workforce entry-level positions.
The challenge does not stop there. In fact, the journey has
just begun. The challenge now is to improve the work-ready
levels of job seekers and to support the employer partners as
they seek to successfully recruit and retain indigenous staff.
Overwhelmingly, the effectiveness of the work readiness/
training pipeline for indigenous job seekers is the single biggest
issue raised with the AEC by its employer partners. To this
end, the AEC and its sister organisation Generation One have
prepared a policy discussion paper on how to improve the work
readiness/training pipeline for indigenous job seekers. The
discussion paper has in-principle agreement from both major
political parties and will be presented to the federal government
by the end of the year for consideration.
The AEC’s role has now moved from a focus on developing
the business (signing new partners into the covenant) to the
rollout or implementation stage. The focus of the AEC team
in this second stage of the journey is to act in a consultancy
type role to guide its employer partners through the process
of successfully recruiting and retaining indigenous employees.
The AEC will act as a clearinghouse of information and as a
broker of relationships to support employers in the rollout of
their job opportunities.
The
Fifty Thousand Jobs
campaign sits well with the dynamic
challenges facing the resource sector in WA. Apart from
expected critical labour shortages, the responsibility and benefit
of engaging local employees and landholders is appropriately
widely recognised. If it is not a legal or contractual obligation, it
is a social and moral one. It’s good business.
The COAG commitments to closing the gap of indigenous
disadvantage between 2008-2018 include shifting 100,000
people from welfare to work. The
Fifty Thousand Jobs
campaign
is unique in that it is employer-driven. Australian employers
have stepped up to the challenge, among them those involved in
the resource sector who have particular opportunities because
of the remote locations in which they often operate and the
proximity of the local indigenous population.
The AEC believes that Australia has the opportunity and
the imperative to create change in this generation. We are
determined to support mining sector employers and ensure
they are at the forefront of this change as they engage more
indigenous employees in their business operations, achieving
the symbiotic objectives of bringing lasting benefit to local
indigenous communities and creating a proud and successful
corporate history.
The
Fifty Thousand
Jobs
campaign sits
well with the dynamic
challenges facing
the resource sector
in WA. Apart from
expected critical
labour shortages, the
responsibility and
benefit of engaging
local employees
and landholders is
appropriately widely
recognised. If it is not
a legal or contractual
obligation, it is a
social and moral one.
It’s good business.