Government HR managers and public sector recruiters should be proactively going after the thousands of Australians who’ve lost their jobs in the financial crisis with incentives to return home, a top recruitment consultant has said. With thousands of jobs lost in Europe and the US in recent months, a huge number of Australians have come […]
30 October, 2008
The 3-D virtual world Second Life. In an innovate move to tackle its ageing IT workforce, the state of Missouri has recruited its first IT employee from an internet-based virtual world. According to a Government Technology report, Missouri last year launched a recruiting site and job fairs in Second Life, an online 3-D community where ‘residents’ […]
3 October, 2008
About 5,000 members from the Queensland Public Sector Union (QPSU) and many other unions met today to oppose the Premier’s 3.25 per cent wages offer for hospital workers and other public sector employees. At Queens Park in the Brisbane CBD, an estimated 4000 public sector employees rallied including firefighters, cleaners, paramedics, teacher aides, rail workers […]
30 September, 2008
The skills shortage in the ICT sector will grow by almost 30 per cent over the next two years and inaction on the issue could slow economy, a report has warned. The report, released by the Centre for Innovate Industry Economic Research, also forecasts the skills shortage in the sector will become more acute in […]
12 August, 2008
The Western Australian workforce will be the first to benefit from a Federal Government program designed to address skills shortages across a range of industries. The Productivity Places Program aims at providing 450,000 new training places nationally over the next four years. WA is the first state to join the program, piloting an initiative to […]
14 May, 2008
Penrith City Council’s director – city strategy, Alan Stoneham will replace retiring Alan Travers as general manager of the council on 2 July. According to Penrith City Mayor Greg Davies, Mr Stoneham has an extensive background in local government with more than 30 years of experience in planning and long-term strategy development.
31 March, 2008
The City of Geraldton-Greenough has appointed former city of Bunbury senior executive,Tony Brun to take over as its chief executive in June. Mr Brun has extensive experience in engineering, planning and local government both in Queensland and Western Australia.
31 March, 2008
By Staff Writer Four out five Australian public servants would recommend the Australian Public Service (APS) as a good place to work, according to the recently released State of the Service Report 2006–07. Overall job satisfaction among APS employees is high, with more than 80 per cent of employees, on average, satisfied with the things that matter […]
20 December, 2007
By Adam Coleman The Local Government and Shires Association (LGSA) of New South Wales and MyCareer.com.au have joined forces to create an online job site that specifically promotes local government positions. “The reason we are doing this is because there wasn’t an easy way to specifically look for local government jobs,” LGSA design and development […]
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