Career Insights for the Transport Industry: Exploring the results of industry surveys and research | Online | 28 Mar 2023
Tuesday 28 March 2023
1.00pm - 2.00pm | AEDT (Syd, Mel) |
12.30pm-1.30pm | ACDT (Ade) |
12.00pm-1.00pm | AEST (Bris) |
10.00am-11.00am |
AWST (Per) |
Format: Webinar (via Zoom)
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About this event
Join us for an informative session of presentations and discussion exploring the latest insights on the career experiences of transport professionals. Supported by industry surveys we have two presenters sharing the results of their research, which was informed by the AITPM membership.
Presentations:
#1: Calibre Industry Insight Survey
Presenter: Ben Wood | Director, Calibre Search and Selection, and Co-Founder Hadron Group
The Calibre Industry Insight Survey was undertaken in collaboration with AITPM in late 2022. The survey was distributed to industry professionals across Australia and New Zealand, who have provided fascinating insights from industry salary benchmarking, working conditions, workplace flexibility, industry association affiliation and more.
View the Industry Survey results
#2: Career Optimism of Civil Engineers Research
Presenter: Sonia Reis MIEAust, RPEQ, CPEng, AFHEA
PhD Candidate & Sessional Academic, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Queensland University of Technology
Delivery of infrastructure in Australia is increasingly challenged by shortages of professional civil engineers. It is therefore imperative to investigate their career optimism. Through the lens of the theory of work adjustment, we expand upon previous research on this topic. We identify the significance of occupational and organizational values and needs, adjustment, and commitment, emphasizing both individual and organizational factors. From a nationwide survey of Australian professional civil engineers, our logistic regression models identify the mechanisms that predict a civil engineer's increasing or decreasing career optimism, which are distinguished through the constructs of Person, Environment, and the Adjustment between them.
Our findings show that a civil engineer's career optimism depends upon their years of professional experience and gender. Optimistic male civil engineers report affective organizational commitment, but career optimism declines with years of experience. Optimistic nonmale civil engineers report continuing organizational commitment and increasing optimism with experience. Predictors of an early-career civil engineer's increasing career optimism include the occupational status value of responsibility and the ability to adjust within a work environment. Therefore, organizations must continue to build upon current practices in supporting a civil engineer's occupational needs, provide flexibility, and understand their organizational commitment. Practical management implications that build career optimism of early-career civil engineers include provision of roles offering autonomy, responsibility, and flexibility, support returning from career breaks, and providing change management training.
For any enquiries, please contact Kirsty Kelly
Ben Wood | Calibre Search and Selection
Ben Wood is the Director of Calibre Search and Selection and the co-founder of the management consulting firm, Hadron Group. Over the past 15 years, he has actively been involved in the traffic engineering and transport planning industry across Australia and New Zealand. With Calibre, he advocates for professionals working in the industry, consistently providing coaching, training, and ongoing support to employers looking to improve their working culture and job satisfaction for their employees. Through his work with Hadron Group, Ben has collaborated closely with state government agencies and other stakeholders to establish a more integrated approach to transport planning, and identify ways to strengthen the movement and place and safer streets initiatives.
Sonia Reis | Queensland University of Technology
Sonia Reis MIEAust, RPEQ, CPEng, AFHEA is a PhD Candidate & Sessional Academic, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at QUT.
Graduating with her civil engineering Bachelors degree twenty years ago, Sonia has practised as a structural engineer in a range of roles across a variety of industries. Primarily based in Mining and Metals, she has worked in major projects design, construction and operations.
Sonia now uses these skills to teach and coach the next generation of engineers as a sessional academic at QUT. Her teaching philosophy includes encouraging and expanding upon the reason students study engineering. This interest in the development and pathways of our engineering students transitioned into her Doctoral Studies, investigating the career optimism of civil engineers.
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PSA Consulting | QLD |
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Be Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd | SA |
Main Roads WA | WA |
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O'Brien Traffic | VIC |
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City of Moreton Bay | QLD |
Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management | QLD |
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EMM Consulting | NSW |
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HDS Australia | SA |
City of Moreton Bay | QLD |
PSA Consulting | QLD |
AECOM | VIC |
AtkinsRealis | NSW |
Arcadis | QLD |
Urbis | QLD |
Aurecon | WA |
Urbis | VIC |
VLC | TAS |
QUT | QLD |
PSA Consulting | QLD |
Brisbane Airport | QLD |
Rytenskild Traffic Engineering | QLD |
City of Whittlesea | VIC |
Urbis | QLD |
Clarity Consult | NSW |
Department for Infrastructure and Transport | SA |
PwC | NSW |
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) | QLD |
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Aurecon | WA |
Egis | QLD |
EMM Consulting | NSW |
Transport and Main Roads Qld | QLD |
City of Onkaparinga | SA |
Busways North West Pty Ltd | NSW |
TTM Consulting | QLD |
Queensland University of Technology | QLD |
Outer Loop Consulting | QLD |
Monash University | VIC |