They’ve been labeled as self-assured, disloyal and non-committal workers, but leading demographers believe that Generation Y may be the answer to the problems caused by the public sector’s ageing workforce. Angela Dorizas spoke with Bruce Tulgan, author of Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y, for his advice on recruiting and retaining […]
5 June, 2009
The cost of recruiting public service employees are set to rise by up to $370 million per year, according to a leading e-recruitment software company. A survey of e-recruitment traffic conducted by Australian software company NGA.net, has revealed that the number of electronic job applications received by Australian Government departments over the past 12 months […]
30 March, 2009
Skills requirments in local government over the next five to ten years will be determined by an ageing population, the global financial crisis and new ways of doing business, according to the Local Government Managers Australia (LGMA). The issues were discussed at the National Local Government Skills Forum facilitated by the LGMA in Melbourne, which covered the impact of […]
3 March, 2009
One of the UK's biggest local authorities has announced it will cut hundreds of jobs, blaming "lower government grants and a drop in its income". Leeds City Council in the north of England said about 650 people would go over the next year but said it was planning to create 200 new posts, giving a net […]
18 February, 2009
By Rob O'Brien The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has waded into the row over the salaries of council CEOs claiming that councils were required to pay competitive salaries to get the most qualified candidates into senior positions. ALGA president Geoff Lake said that the salaries of local government CEOs reflected a competitive job […]
17 February, 2009
ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope has expressed his concern that a slashing of public sector jobs due to the financial crisis could ruin the capital’s economy. ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope told the ABC that he had a detailed discussion with Kevin Rudd in which he emphasised the importance of the Commonwealth public service to […]
2 February, 2009
By Staff Writer The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) is encouraging job seekers affected by the economic crisis to contact their local councils for employment opportunities. More than 85 positions with 15 councils are listed on the LGAQ website and according to the Association’s acting executive director, Greg Hoffman, there are more than 60 other […]
30 January, 2009
By Adam Coleman The website used by the NSW Government to advertise public service roles has been hacked, potentially exposing the personal details of thousands of public sector job seekers. The NSW Department of Commerce, which administers the jobs.nsw.gov.au site, is warning jobseekers not to reply to a spam email advertising a “non-existent job vacancy”. […]
28 January, 2009
Agencies across the Australian Public Service (APS) are spending heavily on advertising in a bid to attract the right personnel. The advertising has improved in quality and extensively promotes great APS work environments, flexible, family-friendly and where staff wellbeing is of the utmost importance. This investment however, is being undermined by poor internal recruitment practices […]
28 January, 2009
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has taken aim at the Federal Government for axing more than one hundred jobs across the Australia Taxation Office (ATO) at a time when its productivity cuts are already placing significant demands on the public service. 133 tax workers from predominantly regional areas were sacked last week as […]
13 January, 2009
Griffith City Council is hoping to attract skilled workers from the UK and across Europe to fill vacant positions. The NSW council will attend the Work Worldwide Expo in Manchester and London, in attempt to source skilled labour to fill vacancies in the region’s health sector as well as the council’s own planners and […]
7 November, 2008
After eight years in the position, Victorian Police Chief Commissioner, Christine Nixon has resigned. Ms Nixon made her announcement alongside Premier John Brumby and Police Minister Bob Cameron in Melbourne today. "I will remain with Victoria Police until the end of March next year to allow the Government to conduct a process to appoint a […]
5 November, 2008
Australia could become a global leader in creating green industries generating up to a million green collar jobs by 2030 and multi-billion dollar export opportunities in green technology. That is the finding of a new report from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). The Green Gold Rush: How […]
4 November, 2008
NSW Premier, Nathan Rees has said the remuneration tribunal’s recent decision to award senior bureaucrats salary increases of up to four per cent was against his wishes. The Statutory and Other Officers Remuneration Tribunal has granted senior executives in the NSW Government an immediate increase in their salary packages of 2.5 per cent, with a further 1.4 […]
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