Job vacancies

A restaurant owner has invited unemployed Melburnian Jez Heywood to apply for one of nearly 200 vacancies, saying he’s “struggling” to find workers and slamming the Jobseeker increase as “ridiculous”.Chris Lucas, owner of high-end…

Demand for white-collar employment in the Indian IT services industry, the biggest contributor to jobs in the technology sector cohort, hit its lowest volume in the past 28 months in April, according to data collated from top job boards and…

As many as 35.7 lakh vacancies were registered on National Career Service (NCS) in 2022-23, which is a record so far, the labour ministry said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Labour and Employment is implementing the…

While Aussie homeowners were delivered a welcome reprieve as the Reserve Bank paused its aggressive rate hiking cycle this month, one major bank boss has delivered a grim warning about what’s to come.The RBA revealed on Tuesday it was…

Job postings have bounced back from a seven-month slump as one surprising state saw a huge increase in advertised roles. A new report released by online job marketplace Seek on Friday showed national job ads in January had risen 2.8 per…

So far, 2023 has seen the situation facing Australian households riddled with contradictions. On one hand the nation’s unemployment rate is sitting near its lowest level in almost 50 years. On the other, households are going backwards in…

Australia’s plan to recruit workers from Britain to fill more than 30,000 job vacancies has been met with overseas backlash. The British Medical Association is up in arms over a plan to lure thousands of doctors from the UK to Western…

Some Australians are being locked out of the employment market despite record-high levels of job vacancies, according to a new report urging the federal government to do more to help. Entry-level positions are disappearing across Australia,…

Rapidly mounting risks to Australia’s economy may mean that a local recession is inevitable, former Liberal leader John Hewson has warned.Writing in The Saturday Paper, Dr Hewson said Australia’s “Covid-19 mismanagement” combined with…

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