Scarce Skills in the Mining Sector

Scarce Skills in the Mining Sector. If Science, maths and technical stuff interests you, whether it’s for your own career development or if it’s skills you wish to share with students – understanding what the scarce skills are in the job market is an advantage.

Scarce skills identified by the Mining Qualifications Authority

Knowledge of scarce skills helps you to identify viable and feasible career paths and business development opportunities. Check out where the current career and training opportunities are.

How to use Scarce Skills information

• Study in a field where there are many scarce skills and ensure that you possess plenty of these skills to strengthen your chances of employment
• When you are looking for a new job or career opportunity, see if you can meet any of the scarce skills in the sector you’re interested in.
• If you find yourself in a position to apply for any of these jobs, be sure to list other scarce skills you may have in your cover letter.
• If you’re a training organisation working within the mining sector, check that you are able to meet the development needs of scarce skill areas. Align your learning programs with scarce skill needs.
• Scarce skills offer both employment and business expansion opportunities.

Potential learners and training organisations should take a look at the new registered learnership qualifications and various job certificates that have been entered into the Occupational Qualifications Framework, so exciting! Here’s a list for you, always remember qualifications lead you to the providers that are accredited to deliver them so knowing the correct information is important:

• NQF. Level 1 and 2 for those with little or no high school and limited if any work experience.

• NQF Level 3 qualifications for those with some high school and little or no work experience.

• Awesome NQF Level 4 qualifications for Matriculants or experienced workers.

• Exciting List of New NQF Level 5 Certificates

• The List Of New NQF Level 6 Qualifications

List of 167 Scarce Skills in the Mining Sector

A newly updated list of critical skills is available at this link.

There are many unusual careers listed below, such as a ship’s officer. Note that certain career opportunities depend upon where you are located. If you want to work with ships but live in the North West – you’ll need to relocate before anyone will take you seriously. Unless of course you start a YouTube channel and raise awareness about your dream. Ok, that’s just an idea! But do let us know!!!