About - Capital Jobs
CapitalJobs.com.au is the place to go to find a job in Canberra, Queanbeyan, south-eastern New South Wales and the Illawarra Region. Job Seekers can search and apply for current job vacancies, receive email job alerts, register their CV online and be approached by prospective employers.For Advertisers, CapitalJobs.com.au represents the most targeted and cost-effective place to advertise job vacancies in the region. There's no need to pay more to advertise in print or on the national job boards. The Canberra region now has its own localised job board - why search for jobs or advertise your vacancies anywhere else? For more information please visit http://www.capitaljobs.com.au
| Previous Next |  |
 |
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 Email Article |
|
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 Email Article |
|
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 Email Article |
|
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 Email Article |
|
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 Email Article |
|
Skills Shortages Pose a Risk to Growth
2:37pm Wednesday 14 July 2010 - Capital Jobs A new Australian Industry Group/Deloitte CEO survey entitled Skills Shortages: A High Risk Business indicates that skills shortages are again looming large as a major risk for business and pose real problems for companies in terms of production and service delivery. This situation is forecast to intensify. The survey, which involved more than 400 companies [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
|
Unemployment steady, employment indicator and job ads rise
2:36pm Wednesday 14 July 2010 - Capital Jobs The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publication Labour Force, Australia shows that the unemployment rate remained steady at 5.1% in seasonally adjusted terms in June. The trend unemployment rate was also unchanged, remaining at 5.2% for the month. The participation rate exhibited a 0.1 point increase to 65.2% in seasonally adjusted terms, but remained at [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
|
ACT Targets Skilled Workers in WA
11:19am Monday 28 June 2010 - Capital Jobs Skilled workers and students living in Perth are the latest to be targeted by the ACT Government’s Live in Canberra team. The Team is promoting Canberra at the National Careers and Employment Expo in Perth. The expo is the fourth in a series of five National Careers and Employment Expos the Live in [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
|
Paid Parental Leave Scheme Bill Passed
11:18am Monday 28 June 2010 - Capital Jobs Legislation for Australia’s first Paid Parental Leave scheme has passed the Parliament. The Federal scheme provides up to 18 weeks’ Government-funded parental leave pay at the National Minimum Wage (currently $570 per week) for eligible parents of children born or adopted on or after 1 January 2011. For more information click here This post was drawn from [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
|
ACT Government to favour employers of disabled
3:18am Thursday 17 June 2010 - Capital Jobs The ACT Government is changing its tender process to favour organisations that employ people with disabilities and the long-term unemployed. ACT Government departments and agencies must consider the social benefits of awarding contracts to such organisations alongside some of the more competitive requirements. The ACT Government already supports organisations like Café [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
| Previous Next | |
