The global mining industry experienced a 24% rise in new job postings related to corporate governance in Q1 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 43% increase versus Q1 2022. Corporate Governance is a priority in most of the industries today including Mining. GlobalData’s ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Top Trends by Sector – Thematic Research report assesses the impact of ESG by identifying key trends, company filings, and hiring pattern across 16 key sectors. Buy the report here.

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Notably, Management Occupations jobs accounted for a 12% share of the global mining industry’s corporate governance-related total new job postings in Q1 2023, up 11% over the prior quarter.

Management Occupations drive corporate governance-related hiring activity

Management Occupations, with a share of 12%, emerged as the top corporate governance-related job roles within the mining industry in Q1 2023, with new job postings rising by 11% quarter-on-quarter. Architecture and Engineering Occupations came in second with a share of 10% in Q1 2023, with new job postings rising by 16% over the previous quarter.

The other prominent corporate governance roles include Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations with an 8% share in Q1 2023, Business and Financial Operations Occupations with a 8% share of new job postings.

Top five companies in mining industry accounted for 47% of hiring activity

The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q1 2023 were Eaton, Cummins, Cleveland-Cliffs, Caterpillar, and Komatsu. Together they accounted for a combined share of 47% of all corporate governance-related new jobs in the mining industry.

Eaton posted 764 corporate governance-related new jobs in Q1 2023, Cummins 337 jobs, Cleveland-Cliffs 318 jobs, Caterpillar 313 jobs, and Komatsu 253 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.

Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 44.37% share of total new job postings, Q1 2023

The largest share of corporate governance-related new job postings in the mining industry in Q1 2023 was in the US with 44.37% followed by Australia (14.00%) and Canada (8.56%). The share represented by the US was 0 percentage points lower than the 44.42% share it accounted for in Q4 2022.

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