fish.01

The recruitment at our software house has certainly picked up again in the last 6 months or so. Lots of jobs coming out all the time...10 more today.

Bermudashorts

I am a realist and naturally risk averse but goodness me there is a lot of doom and gloom and talk of dead beat jobs for new immigrants around here, you have to have a bit of confidence otherwise might as well just stay in bed.

xzibit

And my plane might crash halfway between Singapore and Australia. There's so much negativity on this forum lately it makes me want to avoid it.

About 15 people I know have had no issues in the past 24 months. Sorry if I'm confident.

Maybe I should just give up now and not get on that plane. Australia is an
awful place anyway. Yep I've made my mind up. I'm not going.

Alfresco

Don't worry, you'll be fine and all the best.

I'd love to find a beer tasting job that pays well.

I think the mood has definitely picked up from a year ago, which did sound like lots of people were struggling to find jobs, especially in the trades.

I'm optimistic though. If there were headline news saying jobs are scarce, I would think about delaying our arrival a bit.

PaulandNic

Well you'll be fine then I'm sure

BadgeIsBack

I find people's position on these types of things a personal cultural statement and indication of values. I would want to interview someone like yourself. (Don't want to mislead - I'm not interviewing now and will not be in the immediate to medium future).

Send me a PM and I'll add you to linkedin. Are you on it?

JackTheLad

Are you serious??? My little monsters are learning Spanish from Dora (the Explorer), Mandarin from (Ni Hao) Kai Lan, and some Cantonese from their mother. There's no IB programme near us but they're at ABC. Do you think they'll have get a chance at Maccas when they turn 18? Will the requirements change by then? Will they need a Master's or a PhD?

A very concerned Mrs JTL

freebo

Similar in Sydney, seems to be quite a bit of IT work here, certainly a lot more than the UK, proportionatley.

jad n rich

Totally

And I dont think its to do with lack of positve attitude either, you dont get much more bouncy, upbeat, postive than 16 year olds

However applying to just about every big name company within 10 klm distance and them saying no work right now probably wont do much for their confidence. Keep telling them all your mates are in the same boat, so its not you, its the economic situation right now.

Buzzy--Bee

http://www.theage.com.au/business/mi...ml?autostart=1

MINERS may be upset about the proposed super profits tax, but they are trying to hire workers like never before.

New job vacancy figures released yesterday show the mining industry was trying to hire a record 6200 workers in May - far more than at any time during the Howard government's mining boom.

The Bureau of Statistics survey was conducted in the third week of May, two weeks after Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan unveiled the resources tax and two weeks after Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said it would kill the industry ''stone dead''.

The survey is regarded as more reliable than the private surveys of job advertisements because it counts all vacancies whether or not they are advertised.

Between February and May the number of mining jobs on offer jumped almost 20 per cent at a time when total vacancies fell 2.5 per cent.

The total of 6200 vacancies is head and shoulders above anything ever reached during the previous mining boom when vacancies only once topped 5000.

It is also way out of proportion to the size of mining as an employer.

Mining employs fewer than 200,000 Australians yet had 6200 jobs vacant. Manufacturing, which employs almost one million Australians, had 11,200 job vacancies.

''The mining skill shortage never went away,'' said David Edwards, strategic manager of labour hire firm Drake Australia.

''Mining workers are very hard to find. You need critical skills - more than in other industries - and you often need them in remote locations.''

Mr Edwards said the hiring problem had become acute as the economy recovered.

''It's one of the few positive arguments you hear about slowing resources investment; there are bottlenecks of infrastructure and skilled employees,'' he said. ''They are a brake on how quickly the industry can expand.''

Emphasising the difficulty of attracting the right workers to locations such as Western Australia, the figures show that it is more than twice as easy to land a job in WA as in Victoria. In May there were just 1.9 unemployed West Australians for each vacant job compared to 4.4 Victorians.

Tasmania had the worst market for job seekers with 8.3 people unemployed for each vacant job, followed by Queensland with 7.7 unemployed per job.

Statistically, the best place to look for work is the Northern Territory where according the ABS there are more vacancies than unemployed people to fill them, producing a ratio of 0.9 unemployed for each vacant job.

''Things are going to get worse for employers,'' said Mr Edwards. ''Last year if you had a job you sat tight in it no matter what you thought of your employer. But this year … there are some indications about half of all workers are thinking about moving. Our own survey shows around 25 per cent are thinking of it seriously.

''For mining employers needing highly skilled workers to fill critical roles in remote locations, it's a real problem.''

BB

JackTheLad

Jad,

Tell the boys I wish them all the luck in the world! I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed for them.

Mrs JTL

Alucard

I'm an IT professional in Perth and man, there's really not a lot of jobs here. I came last year on my spouse's temp visa and I was lucky to land a permanent IT job within 2 months. My wife landed a part-time IT job after 4 months - but that's considered a lotto since always no one ever employs students for "good" jobs. We know quite a few Indian or other foreign students who have been looking for 12months+ and still nothing.

freebo

Is that a case of "to get a job you need experience but to get experience you need a job?".

Quick unscientific check, number of IT jobs per Capital on seek today (and I know there will be duplicates, but this is true of all)

Adelaide 303
Perth 760
Brisbane 1612
Melbourne 4604
Sydney 8154

Interesting, even when you factor for population

BadgeIsBack

Lots of mobs were happy to recruit cheap Indians for certain software roles 3 years ago -then in the downturn at the end of 08 many were let go.

Only the best stand a good chance, comm skills can be awkward. Not all.

Boobops

I totally agree that you have to have confidence, I was simply stating that just because some can find jobs easily doesn't mean others can. It depends on what work you are looking for and also what area you live in. Where I'm living there's an average of 150 applicants per job and well over the 400 mark if it's an application for a government job.