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4. People, Training, Skills and Mentoring

Outcome Required
 The Automotive Sector requires a “A current shortage of 35,000
comprehensive agreed sector skilled automotive workers
strategy for current and future and impacts of future
government policy must be
automotive jobs and training.
addressed through a
 The strategy should outline comprehensive government
consistent, reliable, and and industry partnership”
guaranteed medium term budget
allocations and policy reform
developed in partnership with
MTAA and the automotive sector.

SKILLS SHORTAGE

 The Australian automotive industry is experiencing the most
profound skills shortage in its history.

 MTAA and members provide the only reliable scan of the state of
the Automotive Sector in the past five years with the release of the
Automotive Directions Report. Through quantitative and
qualitative data analysis and extensive interviews of automotive
business owners, it has been determined the automotive sector
requires an additional 35,000 skilled workers - today.

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