DII12 Report: Slow Salary Growth, Rate Stabilisation and A Workforce that is Watching and Waiting
Defence Industry Insights – 12th Edition (DII12) is now live.In February 2026, Kinexus surveyed professionals across the Australian defence industry, capturing real-time data on salary, workforce ...
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New and Successful Ways To Recruit and Retain Workers
This blog has been updated in 2025 to reflect more recent trends.Recruitment and retention strategies must be flexible enough to reflect the current market; whilst more candidates are available now...
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More Than Salary: What Defence Candidates Actually Want in 2025
The latest Defence Industry Insights data provides insight on what drives worker satisfaction in defence industry. Employers can use this data to help guide their employee value proposition, to ...
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Working in Defence Industry Right Now? Get to Know the Most Recent Data
Defence Industry Insights – 11th Edition is now live.Kinexus surveyed the defence industry workforce in January 2025 and have captured the data and insights in the document. Some key takeaways, of...
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Fresh Defence Industry Workforce Data Uncovers What Employers Really Need To Know
Defence Industry Insights – 11th Edition is now live.Kinexus surveyed the defence industry workforce in January 2025 and have captured the data and insights in the document. Some key takeaways, o...
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The Defence Projects Map; Defence Industry Insights 11th Edition Sneak Peak
The eleventh edition of our Defence Industry Insights will be published in the coming weeks. Launching at Avalon Airshow 2025, and online soon afterwards, this blog provides a preview of the muc...
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The Battle For Talent: What Additional Benefits Are On Offer
Key Points:Increasing focus on Employee Value Proposition (EVP) within the defence industryEVP is a crucial factor in employee satisfactionDifferent EVP priorities exist during the attraction and...
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EVP and Employer Brand; How to Position Your Business As An Employer of Choice
Updated May 2024:At Kinexus we speak to a lot of businesses about their employees, their hiring intentions and their workforce needs. We often get asked about employer brand and Employee Value Pro...
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Defence Industry Insights 10: Our Top Five Takeaways
Since 2016, Kinexus has been publishing our Defence Industry Insights to help people and employers understand the defence industry workforce landscape. Now that our Tenth Edition of the document h...
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Major Defence Projects by State Map: Defence Industry Insights 10th Edition Excerpt
Our long-awaited Defence Industry Insights will be published in the coming weeks! Here is a sneak preview of the ever-popular Defence Projects by State Map that features in our Tenth Edition. Sinc...
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What 2023 Uncovered and What We Are Looking Forward to in 2024
We are all thinking it, where did this year go? 2023 seemed to bring a mixed bag of challenges, uncertainty, and some wins. Let’s look at a review of the year from two of our management team membe...
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Strategies for Successful Project Team Recruitment: From Bid Phase to Launch
When you’re in the tender phase of a bid, the focus is on winning the bid. Loose plans might be made around how you will stand up and deliver if you win, but not too much time is spent considering...
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A Nuclear-Powered Submarine Capability, But Can Our Workforce Deliver?
As Australia begins preparations to acquire and develop its first nuclear-powered submarine fleet, thoughts have turned to building the workforce that will make this feat possible. Significant wor...
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What Projects are Stimulating Hiring in Defence Industry?
Kinexus recently released the Defence Industry Insights – Ninth Edition. It is in this document that we track defence industry salary trends, take a look at workforce demographics and offer insight...
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Defence Industry Insights 9; Workforce Insights And The Latest Salaries
Each year we publish a new edition of our Defence Industry Insights. This year, our ninth edition is packed full of analysis on defence industry salary changes and workforce demographics. Here’s a...
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Defence Industry Growth In 2022: What, Where and How?
Kinexus has published our 2022 Hiring Intentions and Workforce Report. You can download the full report here. Among many of the key takeaways the document offers, perhaps the most important is th...
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The Defence Industry Naval Sector: Here's What You Need To Know
Whether you are new to the industry or a defence industry veteran, Kinexus’ Defence Industry Insights provides valuable information about what’s going on across the plethora of acquisition and sus...
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How The Defence Industry Workforce Wants To Work, And Why
Kinexus has surveyed the defence industry workforce since 2005 and publish the results in the Defence Industry Insights. The latest edition, our eighth, is available now to download. Most recently...
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The Defence Industry Aerospace Sector: Here's What You Need To Know
Whether you are new to the industry or a defence industry veteran, Kinexus’ Defence Industry Insights provides valuable information about what’s going on across the plethora of acquisition and sus...
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The Defence Industry ICT And Cyber Sector: Here's What You Need To Know
Whether you are new to the industry or a defence industry veteran, Kinexus’ Defence Industry Insights provides valuable information about what’s going on across the plethora of acquisition and sus...
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The Defence Industry Land Sector: Here's What You Need To Know
Whether you are new to the industry or a defence industry veteran, Kinexus’ Defence Industry Insights provides valuable information about what’s going on across the plethora of acquisition and sus...
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Important Takeaways From DTC’s Defence Leaders Breakfast
On 29th September 2021, Kinexus Director and Defence Sector Lead Rob Kremer was a speaker and panellist at DTC’s Defence Leaders Breakfast. Hosted in Adelaide and opened by SA Premier Steven Marsh...
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Where Are Adjacent Industries Bidding For Defence Industry Talent?
It’s that time of year again. Kinexus has launched the Defence Industry Insights – Eighth Edition. In this document we analyse defence industry salary changes, take a look at workforce demographic...
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What Defence Industry Opportunities Are Out There For You?
Each year we publish a new edition of our Defence Industry Insights. This year, our eighth edition is packed full of analysis on defence industry salary changes and workforce demographics. Here’s ...
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Land Forces 2021: What We Learned
It was with much excitement and anticipation that last week the Defence community finally welcomed back large-scale face-to-face industry expos. Land Forces kicked off in Brisbane last Tuesday and ...
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Defence Industry Hiring Intentions And Workforce Report
While COVID-19 re-defined the Australian business and social landscape, the defence industry’s unprecedented peace-time growth trajectory has remained undiminished.Under the Federal Government’s ...
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Defence Industry Networking: Why You Need To Nail It
Networking is important for all career pathways, and in the tightly knit defence industry, it’s crucial. With a relatively small workforce considering its strategic significance and close ties to t...
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Mentoring Success: Women Leaders In The Defence Industry
Strong mentor-mentee relationships can have transformative impacts on careers, workplaces, and industries as a whole.It’s for this reason that Kinexus founded The Future Through Collaboration (TFTC...
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Defence Industry Salary Slowdown. How Does Your State And Skill Set Stack Up?
Unique state and territory capabilities and requirements, along with the ever-changing project landscape, contribute to fluctuations in defence industry salary trends both state-wide and nationally...
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The Current State Of Play In Defence Industry - A Breakdown By Sector
Whether you are new to the industry or a defence industry veteran, Kinexus’ Defence Industry Insights provides valuable information about what’s going on across the plethora of acquisition and su...
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What Additional Benefits Do Gen X Want Compared To Gen Z?
Gen X: born between 1965 and 1980Millennials: born between 1981 and 1996Gen Z: born between 1997 and 2012We’ve all heard the lazy generational stereotypes; millennials are self-entitled job-hop...
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The Year That Was: A Defence Industry Wrap Up
Defence industry has been resilient during COVID-19 and is set for strong growthFederal Government has bolstered defence spendingIndustry must address looming skills shortage2020 has seen a seism...
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Recession Proof Careers: Defence Jobs Australia
Key points: Australian defence industry experiencing job growthMass job losses across other Australian industriesDefence industry offers strong opportunity and securityThe Australian defence indus...
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A Spotlight on the Aerospace Engineering Talent Pool
With the amount of defence projects coming downrange, it is crucial to understand what the candidate market looks like for you to best prepare your hiring strategy. We dissect the aeronautical/aero...
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A Spotlight on the Electrical Engineering Talent Pool
With the amount of Defence projects coming downrange, it is crucial to understand what the candidate market looks like for you to best prepare your hiring strategy. We dissect the Electrical Engine...
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