Earlier today, the House of Representatives passed 19 bills that encompass the government’s Clean Energy Future package with a final vote in the Upper House expected to occur this November before the legislation passes into law.
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From speaking with clients extensively over the last few months, the carbonjobs team now anticipates that the requisite business case for desired head count increases, whether within a major blue chip or specialist consultancy firm, can now be offered with a significantly higher level of certainly to Executive-level management.
Our more proactive clients will begin to hire this side of Christmas knowing only too well that the pool of specialist job seekers within Australia is limited at best.
As always, we expect other companies to take a wait and see approach thus placing additional restrictions upon their ability to recruit the best possible job seeker/s and perhaps even meet legislative obligations. Any delays in hiring decisions will almost certainly result in additional dollars being spent in either outsourcing carbon and energy compliance tasks or training up a less experienced workforce.
With the NGERS season drawing to an end in the coming weeks, the hope remains that this increased level of political and commercial certainly will enable clients to take a more proactive approach to both assessing their existing carbon footprint and beginning to deliver solutions and behavioural change projects which often prove to be a positive contribution to bottom line savings even before factoring in a carbon price. Should this be the case, a greater variety of employment opportunities will no doubt result.
All the best
the carbonjobs team