Anyone still struggling to find work in Oz due to job scarcity?
Jul 5th 2010, 1:44 am
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Re: Anyone still struggling to find work in Oz due to job scarcity?
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Jul 5th 2010, 2:31 am
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Re: Anyone still struggling to find work in Oz due to job scarcity?
According to this there's virtually full employment in Australia...
"‘‘Every measure of inflation in this report, be it headline, trimmed mean or excluding volatile items, is printing well above the upper tolerance level of the RBA’s 2 to 3 per cent inflation target band,’’ Ms Beacher said. ‘‘Uncomfortably high inflation should not be particularly surprising since the Australian economy is all-but fully employed, a situation that is likely to remain for quite some time.’’
At the latest official reading, the unemployment rate stood at 5.2 per cent. Economists generally say that when the jobless rate reaches 5 per cent, the nation is fully employed."
from - http://www.smh.com.au/business/rise-...ml?autostart=1
"‘‘Every measure of inflation in this report, be it headline, trimmed mean or excluding volatile items, is printing well above the upper tolerance level of the RBA’s 2 to 3 per cent inflation target band,’’ Ms Beacher said. ‘‘Uncomfortably high inflation should not be particularly surprising since the Australian economy is all-but fully employed, a situation that is likely to remain for quite some time.’’
At the latest official reading, the unemployment rate stood at 5.2 per cent. Economists generally say that when the jobless rate reaches 5 per cent, the nation is fully employed."
from - http://www.smh.com.au/business/rise-...ml?autostart=1
Jul 5th 2010, 2:34 am
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Re: Anyone still struggling to find work in Oz due to job scarcity?
I see 488 IT jobs for Perth. Now, maybe you don't know how the IT field is but it's got a TON of specializations. The 488 includes software developers, system administrators, network engineers, telecommunications engineers, project managers, IT sales people, business analysts. Now let's take the software development, business analysis or project manager -these can be further broken down into dozens of different technologies and platforms. At the end of the day - not a whole lot is left for the ever increasing number of employees. Now, me and my partner have good jobs so not really a concern.
I may have to up-sticks at this rate.
Jul 5th 2010, 2:38 am
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Re: Anyone still struggling to find work in Oz due to job scarcity?
Jul 5th 2010, 2:39 am
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Jul 5th 2010, 9:20 am
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Re: Anyone still struggling to find work in Oz due to job scarcity?
Correct. Which is why I always advise IT job seekers to head for Sydney or Melbourne. It astounds me when I read posts like "I'm a .net developer and I love the look of {insert holiday destination in QLD, WA etc} so I'm going to be moving there and looking for work.
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Jul 5th 2010, 9:36 am
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Re: Anyone still struggling to find work in Oz due to job scarcity?
Well one of the teens has finally got an interview with a big aussie store. 
Bit of a process
On line application form and 16 questions to determine response/personality.
Phone interview.
Group interview.
One on one interview.
No its not as Managing director
its just a part time shelf stacking job while hes in senior high.
Bit of a process
On line application form and 16 questions to determine response/personality.
Phone interview.
Group interview.
One on one interview.
No its not as Managing director
its just a part time shelf stacking job while hes in senior high.
Jul 8th 2010, 1:47 am
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Re: Anyone still struggling to find work in Oz due to job scarcity?
I'm on my way back to Brisbane in a few months. Hopefully there will be more than "Please reboot your PC, and the problem will go away" on the phone jobs.
I work in Networking/Servers/VOIP, hopefully I can get something. I'm happy to go bush and dig trenches for Fibre
I thought the NBN would be desperate for people to come work for them.
Jul 8th 2010, 2:08 am
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Re: Anyone still struggling to find work in Oz due to job scarcity?
New national unemployment figures just released at 5.1%, so dropped .1%. WA currently performing the best at 4% (which is unbelieveable really!)
Good news for job seekers.
Good news for job seekers.
