The Asia-Pacific mining industry experienced 0.54% drop in new job postings in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, with the highest share accounted for by Glencore with 1,101 job postings, according to GlobalData’s analysis of mining company job postings. 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, Architecture and Engineering Occupations jobs accounted for an 11% share of the Asia-Pacific mining industry’s total new job postings in Q2 2024, drop 7% over the prior quarter.
Architecture and Engineering Occupations drive mining industry hiring activity
Architecture and Engineering Occupations, with a share of 11% new job postings, was the occupation with the greatest hiring activity in the Asia-Pacific mining industry in Q2 2024 , ahead of Management Occupations with an 8% share of new job postings.
The other prominent roles included Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 6% share in Q2 2024, Construction and Extraction Occupations with a 6% share and Computer and Mathematical Occupations with a 6% share of new job postings.
Top five companies accounted for 31% of hiring activity
The top five companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, accounted for a combined 31% of the overall hiring activity in the Asia-Pacific mining industry in Q2 2024.
Glencore posted 1,101 jobs in Q2 2024 and registered a decline of 2% over the previous quarter, followed by ABB with 1,091 jobs and a 9% drop. Caterpillar, with 1,036 jobs, and Eaton, with 598 jobs, recorded a 134% rise and an 18% drop, respectively, while Cummins recorded a 95% increase with a 581 new job postings during Q2 2024.
Regional analysis of hiring in the Asia-Pacific mining industry, Q2 2024
Australia held the leading share of the Asia-Pacific mining hiring activity with a 43.25% share, 0.11% decrease over Q1 2024. India was next with 28.89%, four-percentage-point up over the previous quarter.
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