Good news for anyone thinking about heading off to Australia to work - their unemployment rate has dipped just below 5 percent for the first time in two years. It stands at 4.98% - officially 5 - compared to our most recent rate of 6.4 percent. Ours however is September, not December. The NZ December figure will almost certainly be higher.
Australia is probably a better bet than the UK where their latest unemployment rate (October) was 7.9 percent.
And for those staying put, Trade Me reports a big increase in job listings.
....32,000 jobs were listed in the last three months of 2010, a 28 per cent increase in the same quarter a year ago.
Of course it could be simply that more employers are using Trade Me to advertise.
I am hanging in there with my new job - running a working portrait studio. Just had a call from a lady who is going to make a $1000+ purchase from me today. And the rent is paid to February. And the sun has just come over the hill.
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Time to buy a bottle of Dom Perignon 2000, I reckon. :-)
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