Rural Australia Needs Thousands of Workers

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Rural towns in Australia are in need of thousands of workers. There is a record 54,000 job opening advertisements in regional Australia. Compared to October last year, this is a 13 percent increase, according to Liz Ritchie, the Regional Australia Institute chief executive. These regional towns are experiencing a population increase as people are realizing […]

Economy Created 180,000 Australian Jobs in October

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Australia’s unemployment rate rose slightly last month, but there was a large increase in people being hired as the lockdown eased in Victoria.  Economists were surprised with the 180,000 new Australian jobs created during October 2020. Employers added 97,000 full-time and 82,000 part-time positions to the Australian workforce. People looking for additional hours dropped from […]

GM Hiring for Electric Vehicle Software Development

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General Motors (GM) plans to hire 3,000 employees who will focus on software development for its push for electric vehicles.  The positions will focus on design, engineering, and information technology. GM will start hiring over the first four months of 2021. Most of the positions will be remote as the automaker has been approving more […]

These Skills Could Boost Your Chances of Being Hired

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Every discipline has a language, and the language of the business world are business skills.  These skills are the set of terms and practices used by business organizations and their employees. For example, common knowledge of financial terms lets people worldwide agree on how to value a company or business. Within a company, business skills […]

New Zealand Receives High Marks for Stability and Economy

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New Zealand’s clear plan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to go “hard and early” proved to be successful.  The economy is one of the most open in the world because of the government sticking to their plan. A second wave was eliminated while other countries are still dealing with getting the virus under control. […]

New Zealand Job Ads Surge 66 Percent

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A top job ad website in New Zealand has seen the largest number of ads since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Even the hardest hit sector, hospitality and tourism, saw a 45 percent increase in the number of open jobs from July to September. Job openings with the largest increase were in the advertising, […]

New Zealand Immigration Minister Reveals Work Visa Update

New Zealand loosened the criteria for skilled workers coming from overseas. Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi reported immigration instructions had changed for business owners requesting a border exception for workers under “the other critical worker” category. The previous rule said a person had to have experience, along with technical or specialist skills that were not able […]

Large Percentage of Immigrants Earn Top Salaries in the UK

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Much of the worries about immigrants in the UK is about them being at the bottom of wage earners. But current information shows immigrants are highly represented at the top of the income earners and are actually paying more taxes. The showing of newcomers is even more drastic among the very high-income earners, according to […]

Ontario Group Seeks US Technology Workers for Jobs in Canada

The Waterloo, Ontario, tech sector hopes a $100,000 billboard campaign in California will lure misplaced tech workers to Canada. The recent suspension of the H-1B visa, popular among tech workers, has caused many not to be able to stay in the United States. Communitech is taking advantage of the opportunity of drawing the immigrants who […]

Canadian Employment Increased by 952,000 in June 2020

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Close to an additional one million Canadians had jobs in June, according to Statistics Canada Businesses forced to shut their doors by the COVID-19 pandemic are beginning to reopen, and the nation is recouping their losses from March and April. A job force survey released by Statistics Canada reported 952,000 positions were added in June, […]