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On 23 November 2023 Deloitte Access Economics’ (DAE) weekly email was devoted to forecasting the labour market in 2024, including the following. Deloitte Access Economics expects tougher economic conditions to weigh down on firm hiring decisions. We are forecasting national employment growth of just 0.5% (75,000 workers) in calendar year 2024, before gradually increasing to…

It’s a slow news week this week. It must be very slow to feature a ‘viral video’ that, in reality, shows nothing more than a business owner clarifying expectations and making recommendations about Christmas party behaviour. In case you missed it, there were numerous articles in the mainstream media about a video circulated by a…

When I was a budding young cricketer in 1980s Hobart (see photo, right, about to go out to bat), I was told I had ‘potential,’ but although I did score three centuries in various grades at my club, I wasn’t consistent and played less than a dozen games at a first-grade level where my top…

The unemployment rate is the most quoted figure in any report on the Australian labour market. If it’s going up, that’s reported as bad news (for workers and governments), and when it’s going down, it’s good news (more people employed means more taxes paid and more consumer demand). However, the unemployment rate is an incomplete…

Most employers’ efforts to build a successful organisation stumble at the first hurdle – their recruitment process sucks is inadequate. Recruitment agencies are Exhibit A for the prosecution. Having worked with hundreds of recruitment agency owners and leaders throughout my 21 years in coaching and training, I’ve observed only a small minority that have established…

On the weekend, I was helping my auntie move house, and amongst her paperwork, I found a brochure from her first job – a trainee at the A.M.P. Society (now AMP Limited). These days it’s called a careers page. In those days (the late 1950s) large employers had a brochure. Here’s the employee value proposition.…