Posts Tagged ‘skills shortage’
Stop your whinging hospitality employers: Improve pay and conditions
Last Friday industry news service, ShortList, ran a story (subscriber access only) on the struggles being faced by hospitality recruiters in finding sufficient staff to meet the demand from employers. The following from the ShortList article summarises the problem perfectly: (Frontline Hospitality Sydney agency manager Stephen) McGuire also noted salary packages for kitchen roles still aren’t as attractive as they…
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 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 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 MoreTraining, the tax system and immigration: The skills shortage response
In the past two weeks the words ‘skills shortage’ has only been matched for frequency of mention in the media as ‘Osama Bin Laden’. Firstly there was the release of the Skills Australia White Paper Skills for Prosperity with its headline-making conclusion that Australia needs an additional 2.4 million skilled workers by 2015, to replace…
Read MoreRely on the shop or grow your own?
Last week I read with interest, an article on Recruiter Daily about candidate segmentation. The article details the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tactics recommended by two consultants who work for a recruitment outsource provider on-site at Ernst & Young, one of the ‘Big 4′ accounting firms. The article got my attention as providing…
Read MoreThe Skills Shortage (Part 3): Workers with a Disability
As I was going through the checkout at my local Coles today, I noticed a sign taped to the register. ‘I am a hearing-impaired person. Thanks for your understanding when I am serving you‘. It reminded me that this Friday, 3 December, is International Day for Persons with a Disability. Recruiters might be interested to…
Read MoreSkills Shortage: The Sequel (Part 2)
In last week’s InSight lead article, ‘Skills Shortage: The Sequel’, I highlighted the recent flurry of publicity in the mainstream media about the skills shortage. Contrary stories have also made the news. Recruitment industry veteran, Bob Olivier, made headlines in the AFR (Friday 23 July, 2010, page 46) by stating he believed the skills shortage…
Read MoreSkills Shortage: The Sequel
The June 2010 unemployment rate in the United States was 9.5%. In the UK the ‘headline’ unemployment was 7.9% and two weeks ago, the OECD reported that the unemployment rate in the world’s 31 leading industrialised economies averaged fell to 8.6% in May, 2010. These rather bleak figures from elsewhere around the globe (although improving…
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