Chefs and hairdressers are a rarity Down Under.Byline: ANI Melbourne, Dec 2 (ANI): The world might be cribbing cribbing see crib-biting. about scarcity Scarcity The basic economic problem which arises from people having unlimited wants while there are and always will be limited resources. Because of scarcity, various economic decisions must be made to allocate resources efficiently. of jobs, courtesy the financial crunch, but chefs and hairdressers in Australia remain two of the top 10 skilled occupations where there still remains a shortage, says a new quarterly survey. The Clarius Skills Index revealed that skill shortages in 13 of the 19 occupation categories monitored were at their highest levels since 2001. This implied that the worsening wors·en tr. & intr.v. wors·ened, wors·en·ing, wors·ens To make or become worse. Noun 1. worsening - process of changing to an inferior state decline in quality, deterioration, declension economic conditions don't really mean an end to the skills crisis. The new index for the September quarter was 103.5, a slight increase on the 103.3 recorded in the previous quarter and higher than the 102.4 registered a year earlier. A score of 100 indicates a balance between labour supply and demand. A reading greater than 105 is regarded as extreme, conversely a score of 95 to 98 is moderate. "Our experience suggests that while most industry sectors will shed jobs in the short term, many redundancies will impact employees now regarded as low performers but who may have been better positioned in the boom times," the Daily Telegraph quoted Clarius Group executive chairman Geoff Moles Moles Definition A mole (nevus) is a pigmented (colored) spot on the outer layer of the skin (epidermis). Description Moles can be round, oval, flat, or raised. They can occur singly or in clusters on any part of the body. as saying. Although there were an estimated two million professional and associate professional jobs either taken or available, there were only 1.94 million available to fill them. In the same way, trades account for 1.275 million jobs, but only 1.214 million people were available to fill them. "Financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and some parts of the commercial property sector have eased significantly, but the slowdown is far from uniform across all industries and in particular the niche roles such as those in the IT sector," said Moles. The jobless job·less adj. 1. Having no job. 2. Of or relating to those who have no jobs. n. (used with a pl. verb) Unemployed people considered as a group. Used with the. rate presently sits at 4.3 per cent. Top 10 occupations with highest level of skills shortages 1 Chefs 2 Metal-related tradespersons 3 Hairdressers 4 Automotive-related tradespersons 5 Health professionals 6 Food-related tradepersons 7 Computing professionals 8 Building and engineering professionals 9 Construction tradespersons 10 Printing tradespersons (ANI) Copyright 2008 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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