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Ability People Continues to Deliver
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
The name ‘Ability People’ is rapidly becoming synonymous with quality, delivery and an ability to fill those roles that tend to give companies a headache. Regardless of location or the specialist nature of a role we have a track record that speaks for itself. In July alone, we placed people into: management positions in areas as far afield as Darwin and regional New South Wales; niche engineering and technical roles for which there are only a handful of qualified people in Australia and; numerous IT, Engineering and Technical staff into UK and Australian based organisations from Senior Management to Analyst level.
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Ability People Appoints New South Wales Manager
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Ability People is pleased to announce the appointment of its first dedicated State Manager for New South Wales. Shelley Austin joins the company from Adecco where she was head of their Glotel telecommunications brand. Shelley brings a wealth of recruitment management experience to Ability having previously held State Management roles with both Manpower and Julia Ross. Shelley has worked extensively within the IT & Telecommunications industry in recent years and has worked directly for the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), developing a strong network within the IT&T industry in the process.
“Shelley Austin is a fantastic acquisition for Ability People”, said Mark Scott, Ability People Chief Executive, “I find it extremely satisfying that the business has developed to the stage where we can attract managers of Shelley’s stature. Shelley will help us maximise our offering to current clients while enabling us to expand in strategic business areas such as the IT & Telecommunications space”
Strong Growth for Ability People UK
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Ability People has continued to buck the industry trend by expanding its operations in the UK. The expansion has been led by the success of the Engineering division which has achieved exponential growth in the last two quarters.
A notable addition to the Engineering division includes Matthew Chandar whose experience has been gained as: Managing Director of RAM Technical and; Business Development Manager, Technical/Engineering of Hayes Staff Recruitment. Matthew brings fifteen years of recruitment experience to Ability People and a successful track record of gaining Preferred Supplier status with global engineering companies and UK SMEs. Matthew represents a strong network of candidates and has regularly topped candidate/client feedback surveys carried out by a leading industry job board.
“The growth of the UK business since our April commencement shows that industry has really bought into our service offering”, says Stephen Laurie, Ability People UK General Manager. “I think that there are some clear points of difference between ourselves and our competitors in that our industry knowledge and networks is second to none. The fact that we are extremely selective within our own recruitment initiatives should provide clients with the assurance that we can deliver the best candidates to them. Matthew is a good example of the calibre of consultant that we will continually seek to attract”.
Skilled vacancies rose 1.3% in April
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
AAP
Skilled job vacancies rose 1.3 per cent in April compared to a month earlier, new data shows.
The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations skilled vacancies index in March was 46.4 points, 18.6 per cent higher than in April 2009.
The department’s internet vacancy index rose 12.7 per cent in the month of March to 78.7 points, but was still 2.9 per cent lower than in March 2009.
Vacancies in April rose in two of the three occupational groups monitored by the department.
Trades were up 2.4 per cent and associate professionals increased 0.8 per cent, but professionals fell by 1.7 per cent.
Increases were recorded in advertised vacancies for 11 of the 18 skilled occupations monitored.
The largest rise was recorded in marketing and advertising professionals, up 7.3 per cent, while the biggest decrease was in hairdressers, down 7.3 per cent.
Increases in advertised skilled vacancies were recorded in Western Australia, up by 6.1 per cent, and Victoria, rising 0.3 per cent.
The largest decrease was recorded in the Northern Territory, dropping 9.4 per cent.
Vacancies were recorded in all states and territories over the year to April except Queensland, which fell by 40.3 per cent.
The largest increase over the year was recorded in Western Australia, rising 73.9 per cent.
Source : The Age
21 April 2010
Employer confidence soars
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
An Australian recruitment agency says employer confidence has soared in WA and is now higher than any other state or territory.
Hudson has released a report today which shows almost 50 per cent of employers plan to increase their permanent staff levels over the next three months.
Andrew Tomich from Hudson says there are a number of reasons confidence has grown a further 5.5 per cent to its highest level since September 2008.
“Gorgon is one of those things that’s really generated a lot of that confidence and so a lot of the supplying industries into that are really benefiting from the whole LNG project.
“WA has again performed at high levels becoming number one in the confidence level across the country.
“This is really on the back of a lot of the resources projects, we’re also seeing a lot of construction happening in the city and that’s driving confidence levels to that level pre-GFC.”
Source: ABC News
7 April 2010
Growth forecast as economy improves
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
New economic data forecasts that the jobs market on the New South Wales mid-north coast should start to grow in the new financial year.
The ANZ Bank’s latest Rural and Regional Report show that population growth in the region slowed to below the national average over the 2008-‘09 financial year.
However, ANZ economist Paul Dean says with the improving economy it is likely local conditions will return to above average population growth.
“Historically if we look across regional Australia certainly the major centres and towns have certainly been growing much stronger than other areas,” he said.
“I guess the other trend is any major regional centre along the coast has been growing even stronger again.
“I think as the Australian economy improves we’ll certainly see a pick up in populations into the mid-north coast.”
Mr Dean says the north coast avoided recession during the global downturn and things are now improving.
He says it is not surprising that migration to the region slowed.
“Both the north coast and south coast of NSW were particularly hard hit by the slowdown,” he said.
“Certainly the unemployment rates in those regions rose quite sharply which indicates that economic activity did slow.
“So I guess one of the drivers obviously with fewer jobs and harder jobs, people I guess are less likely to come into the area or may indeed leave and look elsewhere.”
Source: ABC News
21 April 2010
Government abandons rail study
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Bundaberg Regional Council in southern Queensland says the State Government has missed an opportunity to plan for the region’s future transport needs.
The Government undertook the Bundaberg Port Rail Link Study to identify a rail corridor to link the Bundaberg Port to the North Coast Line.
The study was abandoned when the Department found there was no current economic justification for the rail line and chose not to preserve the corridor in the planning scheme.
Bundaberg Mayor Lorraine Pyefinch says the council did not expect the rail line to be built immediately but identifying the corridor would have made future planning decisions easier.
“Understandably the Government isn’t willing to commit funds to something where there is no immediate demand for a transport link,” she said.
“But what this exercise was supposed to do was actually highlight the actual potential corridor that we could use, should a future cargo want to use a rail access to the port area.”
Source: ABC News 14.4.2010
