Upcoming Events
'Growing next gen rail skills'
Our free webinar series 'Growing next gen rail skills' brings together transport and education sectors to find new ways to develop the skills needed for a safe, efficient, 21st century rail system.
Be part of the change.
Details of up-coming webinars will be available soon.
Catch up on highlights from our recent events.
Attracting a new generation of rail talent
Australia's rail workforce is getting older. By 2035, 35 percent of today's workers will have reached retirement age. During this period an extra 70,000 workers will be needed to build, run and maintain $150 billion of new tracks and technology.
The National Transport Commission (NTC) , through its National Rail Skills Hub, is developing strategies to attract a younger workforce and help rail avoid this looming talent crunch.
In partnership with the Australasian Railways Association (ARA) and its Young Leaders Advisory Board (Y-LAB) we invited young rail workers to join a lunchtime webinar and tell us more about about what attracts them to rail.
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Where did they first hear about the opportunities rail offers?
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How can rail better promote itself?
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And what more can organisation do to convince them to stay?
Speakers included Ben Cribb from One Rail Australia, Kelly Douglas from Metro Trains Melbourne, James Forrest from John Holland Group and Charlotte Robinson from Alstom.
Highlights from the event can be found here.
Preparing your workforce for radical change
If you missed our webinar on how Rio Tinto prepared its workforce for the introduction of driverless trains, you can read about it here.
Shaping the next generation workforce
Catch up on outcomes from the NTC's 2023 Future Rail Skills Forum and find out how government and rail industry leaders are tackling the rail skills challenge. A video and full report can be found here.
Skills roundtable
The Hub facilitated a skills roundtable at the 2023 AusRAIL conference, presenting new research by Oxford Economics which forecast a 'stronger for longer' rail skills shortage.
Broad endorsement was given for a collaborative skills program focused on improving the mobility, diversity and digital competency of Australia's rail workforce.
Roundtable attendees noted strategies that had been used successfully to help attract and keep workers. These included:
- greater flexibility around rostering
- opportunities to job share
- inclusion and diversity programs supported at a high level
- mentoring programs
- the practice of hiring cohorts of minorities rather than single workers.
Targeted events
A calendar of the Hub's 2024 workshops and, forums and roundtable will be posted soon.
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