Category Archives for "Unemployment"

Feb 28

Unemployment’s not so Black and White

Last week, I wrote about numbers. About how underemployment is sitting at a 23-year high and trending up, how we have 1.1 million Australians looking for more work than they currently have, and how even the unemployment rate is significantly higher when you change the parameters of the survey from a person who hasn’t worked […]

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Mar 14

The danger of looking for ‘any job’

As both a recruiter and a careers practitioner, ‘anything’ is the answer I have often heard when I have asked someone what they want to do for a job. People perhaps don’t want to appear to be picky in case you don’t consider them for a role that would mean money to them, or perhaps […]

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