The global mining industry experienced a 5% rise in new job postings related to social responsibility in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 13% 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 13% share of the global mining industry’s social responsibility-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, up 7% over the prior quarter.
Management Occupations drive social responsibility-related hiring activity
Management Occupations, with a share of 13%, emerged as the top social responsibility-related job roles within the mining industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 7% quarter-on-quarter. Architecture and Engineering Occupations came in second with a share of 10% in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 4% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent social responsibility roles include Production Occupations with an 8% share in Q2 2024, Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations with a 8% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in mining industry accounted for 28% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were Caterpillar, ABB, Eaton, Glencore, and Metso. Together they accounted for a combined share of 28% of all social responsibility-related new jobs in the mining industry.
Caterpillar posted 913 social responsibility-related new jobs in Q2 2024, ABB 680 jobs, Eaton 627 jobs, Glencore 456 jobs, and Metso 427 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 37.59% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024
The largest share of social responsibility-related new job postings in the mining industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 37.59% followed by Australia (14.65%) and Canada (13.74%). The share represented by the US was one percentage point lower than the 39.08% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.
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