Title :
Industry Taking Control of its Future by Using Training as a Focus
Abstract :
In this paper the following topics are discussed: skill shortages in Australia and strategies to combat them, the Tasmanian skills authority, ways to attract prospective engineers to tertiary institutions and suggestions of how to retain them in the course of choice to completion, how to become an employer of choice based on a personal perspective of senior managers of the Powercom Group and the enormous benefits of training employees.
Keywords :
educational institutions; engineering education; training; Powercom Group; Tasmanian skills authority; skill shortages; tertiary institutions; training employees; Australia; Educational institutions; Energy management; Engineering management; Industrial control; Industrial training; Management training; Manufacturing; Power engineering and energy; Power generation economics;
Conference_Titel :
Meeting the Growing Demand for Engineers and Their Educators 2010-2020 International Summit, 2007 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1915-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1916-6
DOI :
10.1109/MGDETE.2007.4760385