Jobs And Job Ads Increase In Australia

07 Sep 2010

Employers in Australia were on a hiring spree for workers which resulted in the increase of ads for jobs.  Robert Olivier, director of the Advantage index stated that law firms in Australia are looking for experienced candidates having sufficient experience in the related field to fill the vacant positions of jobs in Australia.

Australia job scenario looks improved showing an increase of 36 percent in the job ads in the nation as compared to last year. Hiring pace of Australian employer registered an increase of 2.8 percent in the number of online ads of jobs in Australia. Online ads increased by 2.6 percent and ads of jobs in newspapers in Australia increased by 1.5 percent.

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. 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.