I saw this story on Friday saying about how the number of jobs available on seek.co.nz is up (no doubt a press release ensuring seek free advertising…). Paula Bennett and John Key regularly come up with stories about how many jobs there are out there – you only need to look at trademe or seek… They don’t mention that most of the jobs are in IT and most unemployed people aren’t programmers or network administrators.
But I decided to have a look at seek on a whim… and I noticed something odd.
I’m in IT, and the jobs it came up with in the first 20 were in Sydney, then Perth, then Melbourne, then Adelaide, then ACT… in fact none of the first 20 jobs were in NZ. The next page had a job with Air NZ, but that was it for Kiwi jobs. In the first 100 there were only 4 jobs based in New Zealand.
Okay, IT skills are in worldwide demand, maybe Australia is trying to poach us all. I’ll try my wife’s profession, she’s nothing to do with IT…
Slightly better, 1 on the first page, 5 in the top 100…
So all these jobs National keep telling us about, all these jobs created and available on our top job websites… are in Australia.
Thanks for the great economy and encouragement to leave guys…
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