Released on: November 7, 2007, 6:18 pm

Press Release Author: R G Lovell

Industry: Consumer Services

Press Release Summary: The industrialised world is about to enter a period of
intense competition for skilled labour with many countries desperate for skilled
tradespeople and professionals.

Press Release Body: Australia is moving into an international war for talent where
it will see fierce competition on a nation-to-nation basis to recruit and retain the
best talent from Generation Y. In fact, many countries are already emulating
Australia's 'cherry-picking' immigration techniques, such as the Temporary Business
(Long Stay) 457 visa. In fact, since World War 2, Australia has been a world leader
in developing and executing international recruitment of new citizens. Stimulated by
the fervent desire to build an enviable nation, a succession of immigration programs
has been very successful.
But, at the beginning of the 21st century, Australia needs thousands of people a
year for many years, to sustain its remarkable resources boom. The message is
simple: No workers, no future.
However, countries such as Japan, China, the US, Britain and other Western European
economies all have fewer people of working age than their economies need.
What is emerging is an international skills market competitive to an extent the
world has never before seen. But is it just a matter of dueling paychecks?

Certainly, straight out rewards for work may spiral. That's what supply and demand
is all about. So does Australia have a competitive edge? If so, it must emanate from
the unarguable fact that people want to live there. The whole country enjoys a
prosperity, safety and security that most lands cannot match, and many can only
dream about. Not to mention the famous laid back Aussie lifestyle.

Then, Australia is far away from almost everywhere else. In some ways, this has
disadvantages. But in this world of turmoil and strife, of falling bombs and IEDs,
distance has its attractions.

Furthermore, the endless variety of climatic zones, the affordability of Australian
housing compared with the US, UK and Europe, the freedom to move around the vast
Australian nation and to change jobs at will, are attractions that few countries
could match. Then, if a migrant attains permanent residence, Australia has one of
the world's best 'family reunion' migration programs.

Even Australian cities get a big tick from the international experts. In the
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey of 130 global cities, Melbourne retained
its position as best city in the world to call home (equal with Vancouver and
Vienna), narrowly beating out four other Australian State capitals. Swedish capital
Stockholm rated 13, Auckland and Honolulu rated 19, London 45, Paris 28, New York
and Dublin 51 and Beijing 75. 


So possibly pay-packet size isn't all-important. If individual liberty and the
pursuit of happiness count for anything, Australia must be in the leading bunch, if
not at the head of the pack.



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