Everybody loves looking for work, particularly when you’re already working. There’s nothing better than hunching over your telephone, whispering at almost incoherent levels in a monosyllabic fashion. Avoiding the blunt stares of colleagues, cowering over the phone book in front of you so that no-one guesses you’re ringing a recruitment firm.
Everybody loves looking for work, particularly when you’re already working. There’s nothing better than hunching over your telephone, whispering at almost incoherent levels in a monosyllabic fashion. Avoiding the blunt stares of colleagues, cowering over the phone book in front of you so that no-one guesses you’re ringing a recruitment firm.
Even better times roll around if you set up an interview with an agency. You get to sprout an over-rehearsed ‘I’ve got an important client meeting’ spiel which will just this once attract the curiosity of those in your office.
Someone will find out. They’ll start to gossip about you. You’ll have to endure withering stares from employers who KNOW what you’ve been up to, though you’ll never be quite sure of it.
And the beauty of it is, you’ll have to go through it all. How can you sneak out to set up the preliminaries if you’re chained to your desk all day every day?…
All fun aside, however, job hopping has now become a reality. Whether or not this is a direct result of modern living — stress, boredom, need for travel, burnout — or the modern economy — rationalisation, jobs becoming redundant, positions changing — or both, is almost beside the point. More Australians are changing jobs more often than they ever have before.
Recruitment group Morgan & Banks recently released statistics which show just how transient the Australian workplace is becoming. The group says that more than a quarter (26.5 per cent) of Australians regret their initial career choice. More than three quarters of the Australian workforce (76.9 per cent) have changed careers at least once. Two thirds of those in the workforce (66.3 per cent) say they will change their career path in the future, while a quarter (25.8 per cent) say they are undergoing training to achieve this aim.
These statistics seem to explain, then, the proliferation of recruitment sites on the Internet.
While most of these sites originally concentrated, understandably, on the information technology sector, new sites are now popping up with a greater range of jobs on them. Including jobs in the financial services industry. These sites cover positions not only in your local area, but nationally. And internationally. Ever had a hankering to hold down an insurance posting in Europe? The Internet could be advertising the job of your dreams.
In Australia alone, it is estimated that up to 200 employment sites are in operation. The mind boggles at what the number would be globally.
The list below is a summary of popular Australian recruitment Web sites. Happy surfing.
Adecco
www.adecco.com.au
CareerOne
www.careerone.com.au
Deloitte Resources
www.contractjobs.com.au
Drake International
www.drakeintl.com
ecareer
www.ecareer.com.au
employment.com.au
www.employment.com.au
Futurestep
www.futurestep.com.au
Gradnet
www.graduate.net.au
hotjobs.com.au
www.hotjobs.com.au
Michael Page Finance
www.michaelpage.com.au
Monster.com.au
www.monster.com.au
Morgan & Banks
www.careermanagement.com.au
mycareer.com.au
www.mycareer.com.au
Olivier Internet Job Index
www.olivier.com.au
Resumes OnLine
www.r-o-l.net
Seek
www.seek.com.au
