The three largest industries each employ more than 1 million people: Retail Trade, Property and Business Services and Manufacturing. Retail Trade had the strongest employment growth as did Property...

Key changes have included: ageing of the population;increased participation of women in the workforce;changes in industry structure;greater flexibility in the workforce;technological advances There...

Generation X-ers who are in line to take over the family business often lack any desire to run the family factory, preferring fashionable jobs in marketing, public relations, finance and business...

Almost 200 years agriculture was responsible for half the nation's GDP (gross domestic product). These days it is less than 10%.Agribusiness is expected to grow at about 3.3% per year. For...

Until the mid 1980's. Ireland did not have enough competitive products it could sell and was rapidly going backwards. Its most talented graduates were leaving the country in droves. The government,...

Andrew Forrest, CEO of Fortescue Metals, is trying to gain access BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto's port and rail infrastructure in the Pilbara region which would enable Fortescue to ship the iron ore...

The tightening market is having an impact on starting salaries. The average starting salary for an engineering graduate rose from $41,842 in 2004 to $44,486 in 2005, up 6.3%. Mining engineers...

APESMA's 2005 graduate employment survey reveals that 82% of recent engineering graduates are employed in engineering roles, up from 70% two years ago. Recent graduates are defined as those from...

The 2005 Australian Computer Society survey, conducted by APESMA in April, found that average salaries paid to ICT employee professional rose by 3.8% over the twelve months to the end of April....

A former La Trobe student of the Bachelor of Media Studies shared her job hunting tips with this year's final year students at a careers presentation on July 26. Having finished her studies in...