Posts Tagged ‘jobs’
Projected 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 MoreI’m calling it – the job market is back
The mainstream media are full of big job loss stories such as Alcoa, QANTAS and Toyota but out there in the SME sector, where the economy’s engine really hums, there’s signs of life. I have been speaking to a lot of recruitment agency owners over the past 6 weeks and almost without exception they…
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 disaster that is our country’s car manufacturing industry
No matter where you were in Australia last week I’m sure you heard or read about Ford’s announcement that they would cease making cars in Australian in 2016. This decision will lead to the direct loss of around 1200 jobs due to the closure of Ford manufacturing facilities in Geelong and Broadmeadows. The media then went into…
Read MoreHow will I know (if he has succeeded in the job)?
Back in the (Australian) summer of 1985/86 Whitney Houston released the third single from her self-titled debut album. It was a massive hit, reaching number 2 on the Australian singles chart as well as number 1 on the (US) Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song ‘How Will I Know?’ (and accompanying video) were perfect representations of mid 1980s pop music.…
Read MoreEmployment in Australia: Don’t generalise
Last week the ABS released its job vacancy data which gave a picture of what’s changed state-by-state in the past twelve months with respect to what we might loosely called the ‘candidate shortage’, or more specifically the ratio of unemployed job seekers to vacant positions. Here’s the data, with the comparative period of twelve…
Read MoreAustralian employment – still going strong (despite what you might read)
You would think the economic sky was about to fall in if you only read the front page of the daily newspapers and watched the free-to-air news. All the doom and gloom about job losses surely must mean the economy is collapsing. Err, no. Embarrassingly for the popular press, the official jobs data,…
Read MoreGuess which state has added the most jobs in Australia?
Western Australia gains more than its fair share of publicity whenever skills shortages are mentioned. As I wrote about last week in InSight #190, the WA Employment Minister has been on a jobs road show in Ireland and the UK, heavily promoting the vast numbers of new workers that the WA economy, fuelled by the…
Read MoreTreading Water: AFR job ad review 2010
On the last Friday in October each year, for the past four years, I have reviewed all the job ads appearing in the Australian Financial Review (AFR). I do this with the purpose of categorising each ad into one of four quality ratings (see below). There is no science to this process, just my…
Read MoreFifteen things about the Australian job market you probably didn’t know: 2010 update
In InSight Issue 82 (20 May, 2009), I wrote about the various interesting labour market facts that I had discovered in reading the DEEWR publication, Australian Jobs 2008 . Earlier this month, the most recent edition, Australian Jobs 2010 was released, so I thought it was opportune to provide an updated list…
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