The First & Only Indigenous Workforce Planning Tool
Turn your Reconciliation Action Plan from a compliance exercise into a competitive advantage. Shine People Solutions' Indigenous Talent Map gives you data-driven visibility into talent pipelines that no other tool in Australia can provide.
HowItWorks
The Talent Map guides a strategic journey, from exploring the landscape, to benchmarking against national data, to taking informed action. This is how you move from reactive recruitment to proactive, evidence-based workforce design.
Explore & Discover
Search by industry, profession, qualification, job title, or location to visualise where Indigenous talent exists across Australia. Identify concentration hotspots and understand the landscape before you even define a role. All data is anonymised and aggregated. No individual is ever identifiable.
Benchmark & Contextualise
Every search result is benchmarked against national Census data, so you can see what percentage of the total Indigenous talent pool Shine already has access to. For example, if the Census recorded 400 Indigenous accountants nationally and the Talent Map shows 148 in our network, that’s a 37% coverage rate, giving you a clear picture of the addressable market.
Strategise & Connect
Move from insight to action. Use coverage data to set realistic RAP employment targets, identify where to invest in training and development, and pinpoint transferable skills across industries. Subscription clients can request introductions to specific candidates matched to their open roles. Shine facilitates every conversation with care and confidentiality.
Why This Tool Needs to Exist
For too long, meeting RAP or Indigenous Procurement Policy targets has felt like navigating a fog. A guessing game with limited data, leading to slow, costly, and often frustrating recruitment cycles.
A Small but Mighty Workforce
ABS statistics show that only 1 in 6 of the Indigenous workforce are employed in white-collar professional roles. The talent pool is small compared to the general population, which makes finding the right people significantly harder without the right tools and networks.
A Hidden Talent Pool
The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 promotes equality for all people regardless of race, which is a wonderful thing. But it also means you can't proactively search for Indigenous professionals through standard recruitment channels. The talent exists, but it's effectively invisible without a dedicated, ethical approach.
That's where the Indigenous Talent Map comes in. We've spent since 2009 building the most extensive network of Indigenous professionals in Australia, so you don't have to navigate the fog alone.
How We Compare Our Network to the National Indigenous Workforce
When you search the Talent Map, we don't just show you the number of people in our network who match your criteria. We compare this to how many people across Australia were working in those roles at the time of the last Census. This helps you see how much of the potential talent pool Shine already has access to, and where there are opportunities to grow outreach and engagement.
Shine's Network (Numerator)
The number of Indigenous professionals in Shine's proprietary network of over 20,000 profiles who match your search criteria.
National Census Data (Denominator)
The number of Indigenous Australians recorded in the 2021 Census as working in the same (or closest matching) occupation, providing the total national pool for strategic context.
Example: Coverage in Action
If the Census says there were 400 Indigenous accountants in 2021, and the Talent Map shows 148 in Shine's network, that's a 37% coverage rate, meaning Shine can reach out to more than a third of the available Indigenous workforce in that field. This is a directional measure, useful for spotting strengths, identifying gaps, and guiding your workforce planning.
How We Link the Data
The Census uses the OSCA (formerly ANZSCO) occupation classification system. We use the Australian Bureau of Statistics' official mapping tables to connect Census codes to current OSCA codes. Where a perfect match doesn't exist, we use broader related occupation groups or advanced AI text matching to find the most likely equivalent category.
Transparency & Privacy
Some Census categories cover broad groups of occupations while OSCA lists them individually, and classification standards evolve over time. In cases with no direct match, we make the best possible match using official data and intelligent matching tools. The coverage percentage is the best available estimate, not a precise count.
All reports are aggregated and de-identified. No individual is identifiable in any Talent Map report or data output.
Workforce Insights at Your Fingertips
Some examples of the questions you can answer with our Talent Map.
How many Indigenous CPA or CA Accountants are in Perth?
What roles should we start with to achieve our RAP employment goals?
Which cities have the strongest Indigenous graduate pools?
How many Indigenous Project Managers are in Queensland?
Where can I find data to support my Indigenous Special Measures strategy?
Which cities have the most Indigenous Engineers?
Why Shine
No other organisation in Australia has the network, the data, or the track record to deliver what the Talent Map provides. We are the Subject Matter Experts.
25–35%
of all Indigenous professionals in Australia are in our network. Unrivalled access to the national talent pool.
Since 2009
Over 15 years of dedicated focus on Indigenous professional and white-collar talent recruitment
Certified
Supply Nation Certified, Aboriginal-owned business focused exclusively on Indigenous professional talent
How to Access the Talent Map
Choose the subscription level that suits your workforce planning needs.
One-Off Engagement
A single month of access for strategic workforce insight. Get a snapshot of Indigenous talent availability for your industry, role types, and locations. Ideal for informing your RAP employment targets or validating a workforce strategy with real data.
Minimum 1 monthOngoing Subscription
Continuous access to talent pipeline data with the ability to request introductions to specific candidates matched to your open roles. Build your RAP employment strategy on a foundation of real-time workforce intelligence, and let us connect you with the right people.
Monthly subscriptionHow Does Your Recruiter Compare?
The Talent Map is just one reason to choose Shine. We've published the questions you should ask any Indigenous recruiter — most can't answer them. We can.
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