In Search Of Health Reform

HEALTH spending in Australia is growing faster than inflation. It's growing so fast that governments are having trouble keeping up. Hospital systems are showing severe stress and people are finding it hard to get timely access to medical care.

The Race Is On For Top Jobs In Banking

TWO of the biggest jobs in retail banking are up for grabs as the industry continues to experience the ramifications of Gail Kelly's appointment as the new chief executive of Westpac.

Search Goes On For Lost Sydney

AN AMATEUR search team that thought it had found the missing warship HMAS Sydney failed to find the cruiser but generated a mass of publicity that has increased public support for search efforts.

1700 Jobs, 17 Centres To Be Axed

TELSTRA'S call-centre consolidation plan will cost 1700 jobs in rural Australia, far more than the 500 highlighted yesterday.

A Search For Identity

TODAY, Australia Day, about 10,000 people are expected to enter Victoria's Government House. It's an open day, a January ritual, and the dress code is casual. Top hats and tails will be confined to the handsome portraits on the walls.

Hunting Jobs Its Mission

MISSION Australia is one of the biggest employment service operators in the nation, assisting jobseekers with their search for work through a variety of programs, while providing employers with highly trained and job-ready staff.

Search Is On For Elusive Mining Graduates

AUSTRALIAN mining engineers fresh out of college are earning as much as 60 per cent more than graduates hired by investment banks. Newly qualified mining engineers are earning as much as $130,000 a year, according to mining lobby the Minerals Council of Australia. Investment banks pay recruits as much as $90,000, according to Sydney-based financial markets researcher East Coles.

Steel, Coal And Jobs

Steel, coal and jobs

Talk Of Jobs Downturn Off The Mark

THE word out of Britain is that after three years of robust growth, the bottom fell out of the IT contract jobs market in the first quarter of this year. Several things are blamed, such as a global economic downturn caused by soaring oil prices, the looming British election and the old outsourcing bogey.

Sole Parent Health Woes Hamper Job Search

Many sole parents suffer serious mental health problems that need to be treated before they can take up jobs, new research shows.

Oil Price, Jobs Shortage Help Keep Market Weak

Australia's sharemarket is expected to open weakly tomorrow, following fresh yearly lows for Wall Street indices on Friday night.

Economy Cools As Jobs Rise

ABOUT 40,000 jobs have been created in the Hunter Region since May 2002, according to the Hunter Valley Research Foundation.

Christmas Jobs Early

FORGET about Santa coming down the chimney, almost 400 people are being provided with an opportunity to get a foot in the door with Australia's largest retailer this Christmas.

Union Channels Energy To Save Jobs

THE LADDER Australia's film and television industry is doing its sums on jobs that will be lost if the proposed free-trade agreement with the US goes ahead. It is estimated that about 30,000 people work in the two areas of production and early indications are that many jobs, particularly long

Sam's The Man As Telstra Resumes Search For Growth

Telstra is faced with a new search for assets to grow its mature business following the scuttling of a plan to buy newspaper publisher John Fairfax. One likely candidate could be Kerry Packer's Nine Network.

Part-time Jobs Can Be A Ball

Philippoussis, Hewitt, Molik and their colleagues still have the job ahead of them, but for Tennis Australia's HR department, much of the 2004 Australian Open work is already done.

Jobless Lost In Matrix As Job Search System Splutters Along

Less than a month old, the Federal Government's latest jobs initiative is having a rough time, report Annabel Crabb, Julie Szego and Caroline Milburn.

There Are Simply Not Enough Jobs

We have become hardened to an unemployment drought that costs Australia heavily.

Search Engine - Jobs

www.seek.com.au One of Australia's most popular job sites , seek.com.au draws on a large database of potential positions. The simple search function is naturally at the core of the service, which is free for jobseekers and charges advertisers a fee. But there are also lists of recruitment agenci

These Days You Need The Net To Fish For Jobs

Internet recruitment has taken off so dramatically in Australia that jobseekers often have no choice but to search online.