Tag: Jobs

Australians are some of the most optimistic people in the world when it comes to finding a new job, with only Chinese and Indian workers registering higher confidence.

The Geelong Investment and Innovation Fund will create some 37 new jobs in the Geelong region, thanks to a partnership between the Federal and Victorian governments and Ford Australia.

Job ads rose for the seventh consecutive month in November and are now 33.2 percent higher than the same time last year, with competition for skilled labour now becoming a serious issue for Australian businesses.

Australia’s unemployment rate is likely to remain at 5.1 percent according to ANZ Head of Australian Economics Ivan Colhoun, with the ANZ Job Advertisements Series for October showing only a modest 0.6 percent increase in job ads.

Job ads in Australia are up 36.1 percent in the year to August, with the latest ANZ Job Advertisements Series data showing the total number of jobs advertised up to an average of 176,239 per week (seasonally adjusted).

Australia’s mining industry is driving an increase in job advertisements in the past six months, with job ads in the sector up almost 30 percent in the industry.

The number of fully employed persons in Australia grew for the 10th consecutive month, while Australia’s unemployment rate remained steady at 5.1 percent in June.

Job ads grew by 2.7 percent in June, following an increase of 2.7 percent in May according to the latest data in the ANZ Job Advertisements Series.

The Australian job market has stagnated in June after rebounding 5.47 percent in May, according to the latest Advantage Job Index online job ads figures.

Dairy products company National Foods has announced plans to shut down manufacturing operations at both its Wetherill Park (NSW) and Cobden (VIC) sites.