Appeared in: The Australian
Date: 6th of July 2010

ECONOMIC jitters, the mining industry tax, a change of political leaders and a looming federal election unsettled the jobs market last month.
Despite these factors, the start of a new financial year has boosted IT employment prospects, according to recruitment experts.

Peoplebank chief executive Peter Acheson said the overall outlook was positive for IT hiring this financial year.

Date: 16th of June 2010

Peoplebank has signed an agreement with Daxtra Technologies to use the UK company’s world-leading software for automating the analysis of job applicants’ information and skillsets. Based on initial experiences, Peoplebank estimates that the platform will speed its analytic processes by around 80%, giving the recruiter faster speed-to-market and reducing its teams’ administrative loads.

Daxtra’s CandidateCapture platform automatically create and update candidate database records, by undertaking semantic analysis that extracts meaningful information on key parameters such as qualifications, years and recency of experience.  CandidateCapture fully automates the processing of resumes, as they arrive, and promises accuracy above 90% in its analysis – a level that approaches human accuracy standards.

The latest edition of the Peoplebank Intermedium Federal Labour Hire Index can be downloaded by clicking here

The third Peoplebank Intermedium Federal ICT Labour Hire Index shows the continuation over 2009 and into 2010 of a long-term downward trend in the Government’s reliance on ICT contractors. Peoplebank observes that, responding to this contraction, ICT contractors are relocating to the booming Sydney and Melbourne markets – with consequences including that the first signs of a looming skills shortage are emerging.

The Labour Hire Index, which measures the average cost of an average unit of labour hire paid by the Federal Government to ICT contractors stood at 1,175 points in December 2009. This was just 15 points below the December 2008 level, but a fall of almost 50 percent against the Index peak of 2,251 points in August 2006.

Author: Jennifer Foreshew
Appeared in: The Australian
Date: April 27th 2010

WESTERN Australia is leading a national surge in IT job salaries as the employment market opens up in the recovery from the global financial crisis.

More than 40 per cent of IT job categories in Perth have received a salary or contract rate rise in the first quarter of this year due to the rebound in the WA resources sector , a survey has found.