April year-on-year data on the number of job advertisements by industry. (photo from the Daily Telegraph)
According to the Daily Telegraph, the number of new job advertisements on SEEK has risen 16.5 percent over the past year, and the number of jobs in each industry has increased.
According to SEEK data for April, the mining, resource and energy sectors saw the largest increase in job advertisements, up 62 percent year-on-year. This was followed by a 49% increase in employment in community service and development jobs. In addition, advertising in trade and services rose 41 percent, consulting and strategy up 46 percent, and human resources and hiring up 38 percent.
Banks (Kendra Banks), head of SEEK Australia and New Zealand, said the growth in community service recruitment was mainly due to old-age and disability support jobs, which are in high demand in Australia. Part of the reason is Australia's aging population. In addition, Australia's national disability protection scheme (National Disability Insurance Scheme) also has an impact on this.
Year-on-year growth in both state and capital territories in April, most notably in the state of Tahrena, with an increase of 35 percent.
The health care industry posted 19 percent more job ads in April than in the same period last year. (photo by the Daily Telegraph)
Health care, Australia's largest recruitment industry, posted 19% more ads in April than in the same period last year. State cities and remote areas have seen an increase in employment in the industry.
Currently, 32 percent of new jobs in the industry come from outside state cities, up from 25 percent a year ago. But contrary to the situation in Tata and the Northern Territory, such jobs are more concentrated in Hobart and Darwin.
In the past six years, the largest increase in employment in the health care sector in remote areas has been in the state of Victoria. In 2012, remote areas accounted for only 12 percent of all health care jobs in the state, but have now grown to 22 percent.