How is Australia performing in the job market?  What is the current ABS data?

“Perform Zone” monitored the number of advertisements placed on Seek, Mycareer and CareerOne for 2014/15.

• The number of advertised jobs gently increased since the start of the year.
• In May Australia averaged 53,000 job adverts a week.
• The Northern Territory saw the largest % gain in job adverts over the past 4 weeks
• Most jobs being in IT, Trades and Admin.
• NSW was a close 2^nd
• South Australia was the slowest gainer.
• All States increased their job adverts

The latest Australian job market review has just been released:

The Australian Bureau of statistics reported for April;

• 6.2% of Australians are unemployed.
• 64.8% of Australians are either employed or looking for work.
• Full-time employment decreased by 0.27%.
• Part-time employment increased by 0.53%
• Last month Australians worked 1,651.9 million hours, up by 1.1% compared to the previous month.

Thanks for this data “Perform Zone”!

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