What Skills Are In Demand In 2024
Future Job Skill Trends In October last year, the Australian Government released its annual Skills Priority List. The list provides information on occupations that have a shortage of employees, and is likely a good indication of what skills are in demand in 2024. Given ongoing low levels of unemployment in Australia, it’ll come as […]
Fair Work Reforms
On 7 December 2023, the Government passed several parts of the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023 (Bill), which includes various changes including: significant labour hire reforms expanded union delegate rights the introduction of a federal wage (and superannuation) theft offence Some of these changes will come into effect almost immediately and they will have a […]
Employment Outlook: What do the next 6 months hold for you?
Future Job Trends It’s January already! At this time of year, you may be wondering what the 2024 job market has in store. We’ve had a dive into the big picture to retrieve the key trends. Here is our look at the employment outlook. What do the next six months hold for you? And beyond? […]
5 Good Reasons To Hire Casual Workers
Solve your staff shortage There are approximately 2.7 million casual employees in Australia or around 20% of the total number of people employed. Why is casual employment so popular? What benefits does it bring to organisations? Here are five good reasons to hire casual workers. Sometimes, you may need to replace a valuable team member […]
Interviewers – Are You Biased?
Finding the right candidate Like it or not, we human beings are biased by nature. Our biases may be conscious but, more often than not, they are so subtle that we are not even aware of their presence. Conscious and unconscious bias can affect our judgment, behaviour and beliefs. They have long been an issue […]
The Gig Economy: Who is the Real Winner?
The changing workplace A recent article in The Wall Street Journal about the #ChangingWorkplace provoked a flurry of posts and comments on LinkedIn. The upshot of the article was that, today, workers in the US are working more for less. In 2016, 26% of Americans reported that they worked in excess of 48 hours per […]
Are You Guilty of Ghosting?
Communication is key Whether you’re an employer or a job seeker, it’s becoming an all-too-familiar scenario. You’ve made contact by email or on the phone, met at interview, discussed the role in detail, and felt that everything was moving in the right direction. And then . . . nothing. Radio silence. The other party has, […]
A Look at the Latest Visa Changes
What you need to know In her address to the National Press Club in April this year, the Minister for Home Affairs Clare O’Neil described Australia’s current visa system as “a mess of three digit visa codes . . . so complicated that if I drew you a diagram, it would look like a tangled […]
