Career
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New Year, New Job
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Job-seekers had another excuse to celebrate during the silly season with the news that Australia's jobless rate had fallen to 5.5 per cent.
Yes, the economy added 52,000 jobs last month, much more than the 10,000 extra jobs economists had tipped. But the fact that all but 7300 of the jobs were part-time positions means it's probably still a bit premature to bust open the Boags and Bollinger.
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If your job search did grind to a halt over the holiday period, now is a good time to take control of your career and crank up your action plan.
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Recruitmentworks.com.au Managing Director Adam Rowson believes there will be quite a few employment opportunities available in 2010 for those that are willing to work hard and undertake training if they need to.
Although he says the New Year is off to a staggering slow start, Rowson predicts that the job market will start 'going crazy' over the next few months.
"Things are very, very quiet at the moment which makes it potentially a good time to look at increasing your knowledge and skill levels and to make yourself more valuable at a time when you will be competing with less candidates," Rowson says.
"In 2009 we heard a lot about people being put off and companies having to downsize. At some point, those companies have to draw a line in the sand and start rebuilding and have a good crack at 2010 and you will need to be ready when the dam bursts," Rowson says.
Rowson says the first step is for job-seekers to identify an industry or sector they would like to work in, taking into account individual skills, talents, knowledge and passions.
He also suggests embracing a stop-gap measure until you land the job of your dreams.
“There are a lot of part-time and contract jobs available out there for teachers, web designers and communications consultants, copywriters, engineers and salespeople,” Rowson says.
“While things are still a bit slow, it might serve you well to earmark the organisations that you would like to work with and approach them directly. Although a company may not have a recruitment campaign in place, if someone knocked on the door with the skills and talents and ability, they might just say, ‘Great, let’s go’,” he says.
Experts say that the sectors most likely to survive tough times include: electronics, web development, email protection security, health and education, environmental consultancies. Legal professionals with financial litigation experience, digital media experts, communications consultants, accountants, programmers and bilingual specialists in finance, accounting and IT will also be highly sought-after.
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