Increase in job ads, jobs in Australia
by Amy Stokes - September 6, 2010
Australia, 6th September: There has been a significant increase in the number of ads for jobs in Australia recently as the employers went on a hiring spree for workers in Australia.
The increased hiring pace by employers in Australia has been witnessed last month as the nation registered an increase of 2.8 percent in the number of online ads of jobs in Australia.
The job scenario in the nation looks perked up showing an increase of 36 percent in the job ads in the nation as compared to last year.
As per the ANZ, the number of jobs ads appearing in various websites and metropolitan news papers was 176,239 every week making fourth consecutive increase in number of ads of jobs in Australia.
Ads of jobs in newspapers in Australia accounted for 1.5 percent of the total increase while online ads of jobs in Australia accounted for 2.6 percent of the total increase.
Nonetheless, the number of job ads in Australia still is 37 percent below the highest level reached in Australia in April 2008 just before the onset of global economic slowdown.
Ads of jobs in Australia went up in NSW (New South Wales) by 1.8 percent with the ads of legal jobs in Australia making the maximum increase of 9 percent, reveals the Advantage index. Apart from NSW, an increasing trends of job ads was also visible in Northern Territory and Queensland.
On the other hand, there has been a fall in the number of job ads in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and the ACT. The trend showed disparities in the job ads scenario in the different states of Australia, stated Warren Hogan, the chief economist of ANZ.
So, there seems to be an eagerness among the law firms in Australia to hire experienced candidates having sufficient experience in the related field to fill the vacant positions of jobs in Australia, stated Robert Olivier, director of the Advantage index.
There has been a downfall in the number of workers being hired by law firms during the global economic slowdown although the employees already on payrolls were retained by the firms.
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