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Recruitment 101 – Communicate with candidates
10:44am Wednesday 22 June 2011 - Capital Jobs It’s happened again. I’ve had a job application rejected by a multinational consultancy. Whilst I have achieved a level of resignation about my lack of competitiveness for employment in such organisations, I am less than content with the level of communication received from the prospective employer. You see, the organisation in question, Deloitte, hasn’t actually [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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RecruitTECH 2011 – speakers released & Early Bird rate available
1:26pm Tuesday 14 June 2011 - Capital Jobs We’ve just released details about the second RecruitTECH conference, to be held at the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday 8 September 2011. More information can be found on the special RecruitTECH 2011 website… Make sure that you secure your seat right now – we only have room for 140 delegates and the last [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Linkedin comes of age – time to revisit your profile
2:03pm Tuesday 31 May 2011 - Capital Jobs Professional networking website Linkedin has been around since early 2003, but it recently came of age with an initial public offering (IPO) that saw its market capitalisation reach USD $8.9 billion on its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Today, Linkedin reports more than 100 million registered users, spanning more than [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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How hiring mistakes are made
2:52pm Tuesday 21 September 2010 - Capital Jobs For those of us who follow the AFL version of football in this country, you couldn’t help but know that last week, perennial bad boy Brendan Fevola was in trouble, yet again. Fevola is alleged to have exposed himself to a Brisbane mother at a Club Family Day. Fevola’s club, the Brisbane Lions, responding by [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Unemployment down, job ads up in August
2:26pm Tuesday 21 September 2010 - Capital Jobs Unemployment Rate Down The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publication Labour Force, Australia shows that the Unemployment rate fell from 5.3% to 5.1% in seasonally adjusted terms, and remained steady at 5.2% in trend terms in August. The Participation rate also fell from 65.5% to 65.4% in seasonally adjusted terms, while remaining constant at 65.4% in [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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15 things that you might not know about the Australian job market
1:42pm Monday 30 August 2010 - Capital Jobs In InSight Issue 82 (20 May, 2009), I wrote about the various interesting labour market facts that I had discovered in reading the DEEWR publication, Australian Jobs 2008. Earlier this month, the most recent edition, Australian Jobs 2010 was released, so I thought it was opportune to provide an updated list of various facts that [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Job ads up and down, unemployment up
11:13pm Sunday 15 August 2010 - Capital Jobs The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publication Labour Force, Australia shows that the unemployment rate increased by 0.2 points to 5.3% in seasonally adjusted terms, but remained constant at 5.2% in trend terms in July. The participation rate also increased by 0.2 points to 65.5% in seasonally adjusted terms, and remained at 65.3% in trend [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Skills Shortages May Drive Up Average Earnings
3:34pm Thursday 12 August 2010 - Capital Jobs The Clarius Skills Index, prepared by KPMG-Econtech, measures the underlying demand and supply of skilled labour. A score of 100 indicates equal tension between labour supply and demand, while anything greater than 100 indicates a skills shortage. The overall Index for 20 categories in the June quarter was 99.6, compared with 98.5 at the same [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Michael Page releases salary and employment forecast
12:36pm Tuesday 10 August 2010 - Capital Jobs Michael Page has just released their 2010 Salary and Employment Forecast report. The employment market has strengthened during the first half of 2010 with increased hiring activity across all white collar professional occupation groups. our annual employment survey, which this year includes responses from over 800 senior managers from Australia’s corporate sector, reveals 33% of [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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A third of candidates happy to be scrutinised online: Hays
12:07am Sunday 08 August 2010 - Capital Jobs More than a third of all job seekers accept that employers are entitled to check out their social media profiles when assessing them for a role, according to a new poll from Hays. However, while 34% of the 900 candidates surveyed expected employers to check their social media profile and found this acceptable, a larger [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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