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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  |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Skills Shortages: The Sequel (Part II)
1:32pm Wednesday 04 August 2010 - Capital Jobs In last week’s InSight lead article, ‘Skills Shortage: The Sequel’, I highlighted the recent flurry of publicity in the mainstream media about the skills shortage. Contrary stories have also made the news. Recruitment industry veteran, Bob Olivier, made headlines in the AFR (Friday 23 July, 2010, page 46) by stating he believed the skills shortage [...] | View Full Article |
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Small Business Fair Dismissal Code and Checklist
1:50pm Monday 02 August 2010 - Capital Jobs The Federal Government has announced improvements to the supporting documentation and Checklist accompanying the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code to clarify the obligations of small business employers. The Code provides small business employers with best practice procedures to follow when dismissing an employee. The Code itself has not been changed, but the supporting information and [...] | View Full Article |
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Job Vacancies Up in July
1:49pm Monday 02 August 2010 - Capital Jobs The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) Vacancy Report shows that the Skilled Vacancy Index (SVI) increased by 0.3% to 46.4 in July. Vacancies fell for two of the three occupational groups: Associate Professionals (-1.4%) and Professionals (-1.1%) while Trades increased by 1.0% over the month. In annual terms, the SVI is 22.7% [...] | View Full Article |
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Skills Shortages in Australia – the sequel…
1:16pm Wednesday 28 July 2010 - Capital Jobs The June 2010 unemployment rate in the United States was 9.5%. In the UK the ‘headline’ unemployment was 7.9% and two weeks ago, the OECD reported that the unemployment rate in the world’s 31 leading industrialised economies averaged fell to 8.6% in May, 2010. These rather bleak figures from elsewhere around the globe (although improving [...] | View Full Article |
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The Power of Saying ‘No’
9:47am Wednesday 21 July 2010 - Capital Jobs One of the many memorable (and valuable) conversations I had in my recruitment life, occurred when my recruitment career was a bare 2 months old. I was a very ‘green’ 22 year old, living away from home for the first time, trying to make a go of working life in London. I was employed as [...] | View Full Article |
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