Comments on: Job ads spike: could unemployment be on the turn? http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/07/job-ads-spike-could-unemployment-be-on-the-turn/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: billie http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/07/job-ads-spike-could-unemployment-be-on-the-turn/#comment-36759 billie Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:41:51 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/07/job-ads-spike-could-unemployment-be-on-the-turn/#comment-36759 The Olivier Job Index can only map trends because it counts internet job ads 1. Internet advertising is cheap 2. organisations advertise jobs they have no intention of filling, they advertise the position to retain 'establishment numbers', there is no suitable applicant found but position remains open 3. Large organisations use multiple labour hire agencies to source staff so one position will be advertised by all the labour hire companies 4. ads are sometimes placed to see who is out there and if a great applicant appears the advertiser will scout around looking for a position In 2005 the Australian Computer Society surveyed the number of advertisements as well as number of positions filled by 4 of the major labour hire agencies. The survey was suspended after publishing one set of results Often dividing the number of advertised vacancies by 7 gives a better indication of the number of vacancies. The Olivier Job Index can only map trends because it counts internet job ads
1. Internet advertising is cheap
2. organisations advertise jobs they have no intention of filling, they advertise the position to retain ‘establishment numbers’, there is no suitable applicant found but position remains open
3. Large organisations use multiple labour hire agencies to source staff so one position will be advertised by all the labour hire companies
4. ads are sometimes placed to see who is out there and if a great applicant appears the advertiser will scout around looking for a position

In 2005 the Australian Computer Society surveyed the number of advertisements as well as number of positions filled by 4 of the major labour hire agencies. The survey was suspended after publishing one set of results
Often dividing the number of advertised vacancies by 7 gives a better indication of the number of vacancies.

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