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Capital Jobs Free letter templates for hiring, managing and firing
3:17am Thursday 17 June 2010 - Capital Jobs

The Fair Work Ombudsman has produced a range of free template letters designed to assist small-to-medium sized businesses when hiring, managing and dismissing employees. The documentation covers a range of situations in which employers commonly provide employees with written correspondence because it is required by law or because of the benefits of [...]
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Capital Jobs All the employment indicators are up, up, up
3:15am Thursday 17 June 2010 - Capital Jobs

Unemployment Rate Falls The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publication Labour Force, Australia shows that the unemployment rate fell from 5.4% to 5.2% in seasonally adjusted terms, and from 5.3% to 5.2% in trend terms in May. The participation rate fell from 65.2% to 65.1% in both seasonally adjusted and trend terms [...]
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Capital Jobs Job Ads rebound with record growth
6:54pm Friday 11 June 2010 - Capital Jobs

The latest Advantage Job Index Australian Market Report is out and the news is good… Employers appear to have shrugged off April “jitters” with a remarkably strong 5.47% rise in on line job advertisements in May. In last month’s report we suggested that April’s fall of 1.74% was either a statistical “wobble” (monthly rise and falls [...]
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Capital Jobs 16 things to do to get your website to the top of Google
1:44pm Friday 11 June 2010 - Capital Jobs

On Tuesday, CapitalJobs.com.au Managing Director Clayton Wehner delivered a presentation to networking group Schmooze at the National Press Club, entitled ‘16 things to do to get your website to the top of Google’. Here are the slides from that presentation: 16 Things to Do to Get your Website to the Top of Google View more presentations [...]
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Capital Jobs Free Job Board Report for 2010 tells of industry downturn and consolidation
2:05pm Friday 04 June 2010 - Capital Jobs

Colleague and industry blogger Phillip Tusing has released his annual Job Board Report and it’s an interesting read for those who run job boards (like us) and those that use them regularly.  You can download a free copy of the report at the Destination Talent blog here… Here’s just a little bit from the report about [...]
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Capital Jobs Austrade announces recruitment panel – congrats to Canberra companies
1:43pm Friday 04 June 2010 - Capital Jobs

Federal trade and investment agency Austrade has announced some of the suppliers on its new preferred supplier panel for recruitment. Tenders for the panel, which covers permanent and temporary roles both in Australia and overseas, closed in August last year. Austrade employs more than 1,000 people in 63 countries. About half its total headcount [...]
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Capital Jobs Canberra 26th-best city for quality of life
9:14pm Sunday 30 May 2010 - Capital Jobs

The Mercer Worldwide Quality of Living Survey has ranked Canberra 26th globally, the fourth highest ranked Australian city behind Sydney (10th) and Melbourne (18th) and Perth (21st).  The survey puts Australia ahead of many of the great cities of the world such as New York, San Francisco, Barcelona, London, Singapore and [...]
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Capital Jobs Skilled vacancies up again in May
9:12pm Sunday 30 May 2010 - Capital Jobs

The latest Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) Vacancy Report shows that the Skilled Vacancy Index (SVI) increased by 1.0% in May to 46.8. Vacancies rose for two of the three occupational groups: Trades (+2.2%) and Associate Professionals (+0.8%); Professionals decreased by 2.1%. In annual terms, the SVI is [...]
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Capital Jobs 16% of employees work shift work: ABS
9:11pm Sunday 30 May 2010 - Capital Jobs

The ABS publication Working Time Arrangements, Australia shows that 1.4 million Australian employees usually worked shift work in their main job in November 2009. This accounted for 16% of all employees. Of all male employees, 17% usually worked shift work, compared with 15% of all female employees. Of all employees who [...]
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Capital Jobs Average weekly earnings and labour price rise: ABS
9:08pm Sunday 30 May 2010 - Capital Jobs

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publication Average Weekly Earnings, Australia shows that full-time adult ordinary time earnings rose by 1.5% in trend terms and 1.1% in seasonally adjusted terms in the February quarter 2010. For males the increase was 1.6% (trend) and 1.4% (seasonally adjusted), while for females the increase was [...]
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