2025 Workforce Plan – Evolving Together

Intelligence and insights to help industry plan a future-ready workforce

Our 2025 Workforce Plan is here. 

The ‘Evolving together’ theme reflects our commitment to collaborating and innovating with stakeholders.

Collaboration and innovation are key to achieving Australia's National Skills Priorities and net zero transition.

Our 2025 Workforce Plan identifies issues such as retention and recruitment, an ageing workforce, gender diversity, and the need for workforces to adapt to future technological change. Longer-term structural shifts including decarbonisation, the move to net zero, the electric vehicle ecosystem, and sustainability were also identified.

We hope the 2025 Workforce Plan intelligence will help inform your planning, towards building the best workforce for our future.

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2025 Mining Workforce Plan - Insights for tomorrow

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2025 Automotive Workforce Plan

This plan outlines the challenges and opportunities that continued growth is placing on the automotive industry. Identified by our stakeholders, these include low participation rates by women and First Nations people, and a gender pay gap.

The 2025 Automotive Workforce Plan shares research intelligence and stakeholder feedback to guide strategic and workforce planning, for a skilled and future-ready workforce.

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2025 Mining Workforce Plan

The mining industry’s internal and external challenges include skills shortages, volatile commodity prices and workplace culture issues. There are also continued opportunities to boost gender diversity and awareness about the range of mining careers.

The 2025 Mining Workforce Plan will spark important conversations and help guide planning for a future-ready workforce.

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