Mining Job Salary Trends
A recent report has shown that the majority of temporary overseas workers employed in Australia are managers and professionals. The report from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship outlined that 90% of skilled temporary migrant workers are in the top rungs of companies, earning an average salary of $100 000, an increase of $10 000 from the same time last year. Leading with the highest wages were workers in the mining industry. Overseas mining industry professionals in Australia employed on 457 Visas earned an average of $169 000 with...
read moreLet East Coast HR Help You Find The Right Employment Opportunities For You
When searching for employment it’s important that you use all your available options and this includes the assistance of employment agencies. Did you know that new employment opportunities are presented to employment agencies almost everyday? Most of which are not publicly advertised. Many people fail to use the professional services of employment agencies to find job employment opportunities, which is a real travesty. Don’t follow the crowd, make the most of your resources to find employment opportunities available on the Sunshine...
read moreRecruitment market caps shrinking fast
Some of the biggest global players in the recruitment industry have lost close to or more than half their value over the past year, with Hudson and Randstad-Vedior suffering the worst of the share price dives among the international stocks. Hudson’s stock on the NASDAQ has fallen 62.9% over the past year, down to $US5.38 per share this morning ($A8.10). When Randstad and Vedior began discussions about a possible takeover in November 2007, they had market caps of €3.7 billion and €2.7 billion respectively. Today, the merged entity has...
read moreThe importance of getting recruitment right!
Some of the biggest and most constant challenges that plague organisations are people related. These challenges are not always obvious, but become more visible the higher you go up the management chain. Organisations usually put a raft of strategies in place to deal with the business symptoms of such people-related problems, and sometimes these wonderfully flawed strategies are created by the people who created the problems in the first place. Such strategies often leave HR out of the equation, and fail to address the cause of the problem –...
read moreAnother Year’s Come and Gone!
Well the silly season has come and gone for another year, thank goodness. January is now upon us and rather than reflecting on the year that was, it’s time to consolidate those New Year’s resolutions, to plan for the future in both our personal and professional lives. Staffing might be one of the areas you plan to focus on this year. After all, good staff are an organisation’s greatest asset. You might have recently lost a key member of staff, either initiated by them or prompted by you and it’s certainly not unusual at this time of...
read moreOne third of employers struggle with retention
Retention is a problem for almost one-third of Australian employers, recent research has found, and retention problems most commonly manifest into serious productivity problems, a decrease in company morale and damage to business relationships… With the employment market continuing to tighten, employers are working harder than ever to attract, engage and retain the talent they have, according to Simon Moylan, national practice leader of assessment & development for Hudson, which conducted the research. “The visible cost of...
read moreA War for Talent – Unemployment at a Record Low
Unemployment is at a record low and employers are waging a war to attract and retain talent. Today’s employee has different career expectations than they did in the past. Employers need to understand changing employee expectations if they’re going to win the war for talent. The workforce comprises four discrete groups; Veterans, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y. Veterans: Veterans were born in 1948 or earlier. Believing in “command and control” style of work, they grew in a time when the man was the...
read moreSkill Shortages In Paradise – curse or blessing?
Where to next for the Sunshine Coast’s booming labour market? Economists may have predicted an easing in jobs growth due to the slowing housing market, the strong Australian dollar and business uncertainty with a Federal election just around the corner, yet there is no slowdown in jobs growth. There is evidence to suggest Australia is in the grip of a worsening skills shortage. Job vacancies continue to grow against a background of less job-seekers. The recently released SEEK August 2007 Employment Index which measures the ratio of new...
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