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October 19, 2020

Labour Market Information Portal Update

The Labour Market Information Portal has been updated with a range of new data and research insights, including information relating to the labour market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 Information Jobs in Demand Employer Survey Results Dashboard (2 October) Information in this dashboard is based on a survey of businesses that operate in industries […]

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September 24, 2020

August 2020 Vacancy Report now available

The August 2020 Vacancy Report shows there were 133,400 newly lodged online job advertisements in August 2020. Although the national IVI has decreased by 19.5% over the year, job advertisements increased in Western Australia (up 10.6%), South Australia (10.2%) and Tasmania (1.9%) during this period. Recruitment activity in Western Australia and South Australia now exceed […]

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September 4, 2020

Career practitioners positions available as part of the Enhanced Support for School Leavers measure

The National Careers Institute (NCI) is recruiting qualified career practitioners to work with 2020 and 2021 school leavers as part of the Enhanced Support for School Leavers measure. CICA has been engaged by the NCI as the National Peak Body to provide high-level strategic advice and subject matter expertise. This measure has been developed in […]

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August 24, 2020

National Youth Commission Australia call for a Youth Futures Guarantee

The NYCA is launching their Interim Findings Report detailing the evidence collected from across Australia over the last year from over 1200 people. More than half of those people were young people of school age or in early adulthood, both in and out of the workforce.  They found that despite Australia having no national strategy for young people, there […]

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August 21, 2020

Off to Work We Go

The Commissioner for Children and Young People in South Australia has recently released a series of reports on what young people need to successfully transition from school to the world of work, and who needs to support them get there. Much of our society and schooling system focuses on preparing children and young people for […]

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