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Nearly three decades ago I was recruiting for the Australian head office of an Asian international airline. The hiring manager, a white Australian, told me he didn’t want any Asian candidates for a junior accounting vacancy as “…they all just go back home if there are any family issues in their home country”. Thankfully, it…

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Despite the many recent headlines highlighting large-scale job losses in huge global companies, predominantly in the technology and consulting sectors, the employment outlook in Australia remains positive. Last Thursday’s job vacancy data for February showed both total vacancies (438,500 – see graph, above) and the proportion of businesses reporting at least one vacancy (24.3%), exceeding…

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It’s certainly been a busy couple of weeks since Shortlist put the cat among the pigeons with their article ($ subscriber link) on 22 February that pointed to the questionable legality of some functionality available to recruitment agency customers of SEEK-owned, Sourcr. The following day I covered the story on this blog noting the failure…

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