Australia Online Job Vacancies Rise 1.4% In January




Australia's online job vacancies increased for the fifth successive month in January, with strong rises recorded across all categories, data released by the Department of Employment showed Wednesday.
The number of job vacancies advertised on the internet, on an unadjusted basis, increased 1.4 percent month-on-month in January, marking the fifth consecutive increase.
The increase mainly reflected recovering business confidence, strong rise in building approvals, and improvement in retail spending, the agency said.
With a 2.9 percent sequential growth, vacancies of sales workers recorded the biggest increase in January, followed by vacancies of technicians and trades workers, which gained 2 percent.
On an year-on-year basis, unadjusted online vacancies decreased 3.8 percent at the beginning of the year, data showed.


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