The global mining industry experienced a 24% drop in new job postings related to corporate governance in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 10% increase versus Q2 2023. GlobalData’s Mining: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the mining industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
Notably, Management Occupations jobs accounted for a 10% share of the global mining industry’s corporate governance-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, down 29% over the prior quarter.
Management Occupations drive corporate governance-related hiring activity
Management Occupations, with a share of 10%, emerged as the top corporate governance-related job roles within the mining industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings drop by 29% quarter-on-quarter. Architecture and Engineering Occupations came in second with a share of 8% in Q2 2024, with new job postings dropping by 34% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent corporate governance roles include Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations with an 8% share in Q2 2024, Construction and Extraction Occupations with a 7% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in mining industry accounted for 40% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were Cameco, Caterpillar, Glencore, Palfinger, and Cummins. Together they accounted for a combined share of 40% of all corporate governance-related new jobs in the mining industry.
Cameco posted 546 corporate governance-related new jobs in Q2 2024, Caterpillar 289 jobs, Glencore 271 jobs, Palfinger 259 jobs, and Cummins 245 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 31.69% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024
The largest share of corporate governance-related new job postings in the mining industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 31.69% followed by Canada (21.12%) and Australia (14.88%). The share represented by the US was 15 percentage points lower than the 46.32% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.
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