Posts Tagged ‘future trends’
You won’t believe the disruption the legal recruitment sector is facing!
Two years ago I posted a blog under the title Soft free kicks in the media continue for ‘internet recruitment entrepreneurs’ in which I bemoaned the incredibly soft journalism being offered up by the ‘broadsheet’ media with respect to the reporting of supposed technology-based recruitment disruptors. Last week they were back to their old habits when…
Read MoreThe Daleks are coming and many high skill jobs are not safe
Every time I shop at my local Woolworths, I join the self-service checkout queue to pay for my shopping. I don’t need or want any social interaction (‘How’s your day?’) when I shop. I am happy to scan and pack my own shopping. When I do this, I am indirectly undermining a cashier’s job at…
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 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…
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