Pathway B · Change industry

Some industries are shrinking. Some are booming. We help you cross over.

We assess where you sit, rate your AI exposure, and map the less-risky moves — backed by the Jobs and Skills Australia research, not gut feel.

The split

Where the Australian labour market is heading, 2025–2035.

From Jobs and Skills Australia's 10-year employment projections — cross-checked against the Indeed Hiring Lab's Australian job-postings data. The headline patterns, not a complete list.

Shrinking

  • Clerical & administrative
    General clerks, receptionists, data entry
  • Bookkeeping & basic accounting
    Accounting clerks, AP/AR processing
  • Call centres & telemarketing
    Highest automation exposure in the dataset
  • Marketing & PR execution
    Junior copy, social, creative production
  • Junior programming
    Boilerplate, basic CRUD, test scaffolding
  • Retail cashiering
    Self-checkout, e-commerce, chatbot service

Booming

  • Healthcare & allied health +22.9%
    +541,900 jobs by 2035 — largest in any industry
  • Aged & disability care +22.3%
    By share of total employment over the decade
  • Construction & skilled trades +11.9%
    +160,900 jobs; electricians, plumbers in persistent shortage
  • Education aides & VET teaching +12.4%
    Secondary teaching is the largest single occupation shortage
  • Senior ICT & R&D management +25.5%
    ICT Managers; R&D Managers +22.8%
  • Specialist clinical roles +35.1%
    Physiotherapists; Paramedics +22.6%
What we actually do

Three things, in this order.

Informed by the research and your specific situation. This is what the assessment surfaces — not a TAFE course suggestion, a research-backed picture of where you are and where you could credibly go.

1. Assess

Where you sit right now. What you actually do day-to-day, the skills you have that you might not realise are transferable, your financial runway, your family situation, your location.

2. Risk-rate

Where your specific role lands on the exposure data — augmentation and automation scores, named-occupation matches. What's a realistic time horizon: 12 months, 36, 5+ years?

3. Map your options

A handful of credible, less-risky moves from where you are. Each one anchored to growth projections, with the Australian funding routes that apply to your situation flagged. Not a prescription — options.

What a real pivot looks like

Six shapes — drawn from the data, not invented.

These aren't prescriptions — they're examples of moves that match the data on both ends. Each starting role and each destination has a specific exposure score or employment projection behind it. The actual one for you depends on what you already know and what you're willing to do.

IT

Software programmer → ICT Manager

Programmers are on the modelled decline list (aug 0.77, auto 0.63) — AI absorbs the boilerplate. ICT Managers are projected +25.5% by 2035. Training gap is leadership and architecture, not new technical depth.

Hospitality

Hospitality worker → Aged or Disabled Carer

Long hours and low retention on one side. Aged and Disabled Carers (aug 0.47, auto 0.21) projected +22.3% by share through 2035 on the other. Service and resilience skills transfer well; Cert III is 6–12 months and usually government-funded.

Retail

Retail Sales Assistant → Allied Health Assistant

Retail Trade's employment share is declining (9.2% → 8.6% by 2035) as self-checkout and e-commerce absorb the work. Dental Assistants +26.8%; Nursing Support and Personal Care Workers +24.7%. Cert III, ~6–12 months.

Customer Service

Call Centre Worker → Community Services Worker

Call centre work scores at the top of automation exposure (aug 0.75, auto 0.75) — chatbots are eating it. De-escalation and listening skills transfer cleanly into welfare support, youth work, family services. Community & Personal Services projected +13.7% by 2035.

Accounting

Accountant → Financial Investment Adviser

Accountants sit in the reshape cluster (aug 0.73, auto 0.54) — AI handles statement prep and basic compliance. Financial Investment Advisers and Managers have similar augmentation but materially lower automation (aug 0.74, auto 0.48). RG146 / FAS Stream pathway, 6–12 months.

Clerical

General Clerk → Practice or Office Manager

General Clerks are on the modelled decline list, but the Clerical & Administrative major group is still growing +9.5% — supervisory roles inside it are absorbing the growth. Pivot is one rung up: Practice Manager (medical, dental, allied health, legal). Cert IV, ~6 months.

Where could you land?

The assessment takes five minutes. We tell you where your current role sits, three plausible pivot shapes for your specific situation, what training would take, and what it pays in Australia.

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