Posts Tagged ‘employment’
More teachers and more deaths: 2020 employment projections
Each year in Australia, the Department of Employment produces employment projections by industry, occupation and region for the upcoming five years, the latest being the five years to November 2020. These projections are produced using detailed data from the ABS Labour Force Survey. In the 2016 update released last Friday, total employment is predicted…
Read MoreNZ update: Construction recruiters in Auckland driving flash new cars
One of the best indicators of a country’s economic performance is the level of recruitment agency activity. Whether it’s strong organic growth or hot levels of M&A activity, you can be sure that recruitment agency profit levels make new markets attractive for aggressive agency owners with deep pockets or strong credit ratings. I am…
Read MoreNZ employment update: First fall in three years
Yesterday the most recent quarterly update for employment in New Zealand was released (Statistics New Zealand publishes labour market data quarterly, whereas the Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes the equivalent data monthly). The result was the first backward step in the New Zealand labour market in three years. Category Sept 2015 (000s) …
Read MoreGlobalisation, technology and outsourcing drive recruitment trends
Last week I wrote about a few key facts and pieces of data about the recruitment industry globally, that Barry Asin, the President of Staffing Industry Analysts shared at last month’s RCSA International Conference held in Queenstown. This week I’ll endeavour to highlight a few of the points Barry made about where the industry is heading, globally, in the near…
Read MoreGlobal staffing industry sales top $400 billion
The recent RCSA International Conference held in Queenstown had a variety of industry speakers and one of the most interesting was Barry Asin, the President of Staffing Industry Analysts who, as the name suggests, compile data and undertake research on the staffing (recruitment) industry on a global basis. There was so much of interest that Barry shared, I thought I…
Read MoreThe unemployed: Sending 29 million job applications your way
Could there be a worse time to be unemployed in Australia? The plethora of statistics and policies released in the past month would suggest not. Earlier this week the Australian LNP Federal Government, through the Assistant Employment Minister, Luke Hartsuyker announced their new proposed AUD$5.1 billion jobs placement program and expansion of the…
Read MoreProjected US job growth until 2022: health care swamps everything
Although there are clearly large differences between the US and the Australian workforces (the sheer size for starters; the US employed non-farm workforce is 138.7 million compared to Australia’s total employed workforce of 11.6 million) there’s still something to be gained in seeing what interesting data the US Bureau of Labor Statistics throws up.…
Read MoreThe hidden candidate gold mine: 400,000 part-timers almost available
At the end of last year, the ABS released its Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, Australia, July 2012 to June 2013 (catalogue 6239.0). This survey revealed some fascinating information about the Australian workforce: Of those 9.4 million people, aged 18 years and over, who did not work full-time, approximately 2.6 million (or 28%) indicated that…
Read MoreMining jobs boom definitely over: DEEWR
In May this year, Australian Jobs 2013 was released. It’s the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations’ most recent edition of their comprehensive annual Australian labour market update. The most significant news story amongst the welter of statistics was that the mining jobs book is over, according to DEEWR. In the five…
Read MoreThe lucky country: Australia’s labour market progress since 1992
At this time in 1992 I had just turned 26 and was in my second year as a temp recruiter at Recruitment Solutions in the Sydney CBD with a remuneration structure of $35,000 base plus team commission. We had moved offices from 50 Margaret St to 275 George St and for the first time I…
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