The Recruiter Daily posted an article on 19th January 2011 outlining 1st quarter (January to March) 2011 hiring forecasts across all States. According to recent research conducted by Hays, hiring ‘hotspots’ are forecasted to be in the following sectors:

  • Accounting and finance (commerce and industry) – project accountants, project accountants, commercially-focused finance managers and commercial managers, analysts, management accountants, accounts receivable and credit controllers;
  • Architecture – BIM software skills, ArchiCAD drafters;
  • Banking – candidates with corporate actions, securities pricing and managed funds operations experience, back-office processing staff, corporate bankers and project managers;
  • Construction – civil and commercial estimators, building and civil contract administrators, site and project engineers;
  • Contact centres – collections-based contact centre consultants, contract inbound consultants and telesales skills;
  • Energy – engineers at all levels with niche electrical experience and transmission and distribution experience;
  • Engineering – civil engineers, structural engineers, civil designers, civil drafters, geotechnical engineers and hydrogeologists;
  • Healthcare – registered nurses with three or more years’ experience, aged care candidates at all levels, social workers, counsellors and most health and allied health professionals for remote and regional locations;
  • Human resources – HR generalists, internal recruiters, learning and development professionals and HR business partners;
  • Information Technology – project and program managers and business analysts, SOE deployment specialists, senior engineers and architects, Citrix and VMWare skills, Cisco UCS experience, senior Linux administrators, senior developers and architects;
  • Legal – corporate, banking and finance, property, construction, litigation and workplace relations lawyers in private practice, and mid-to-senior level in-house lawyers in mining, oil and gas, and construction;
  • Office support – administrators with mining sector experience, corporate receptionists, sales support administrators and executive assistants with federal government security clearances;
  • Pharmaceutical – clinical research associates, medical science liaisons, professionals within health economics/health outcomes and salespeople;
  • Property – qualified and experienced property managers, residential and commercial property managers, project managers and valuers;
  • Resources and mining – statutory coal candidates in NSW, mechanical and electrical design and delivery engineers in NT, exploration and project geologists in SA, geologists and mine engineers in Queensland, and project managers, geologists and drillers in WA;
  • Retail – merchandise planners, senior buyers, buying managers, candidates in apparel product development and production and regional and state operations managers; and
  • Sales and marketing – business development managers, sales managers, senior sales managers, campaign managers and product managers.

There’s more: to view the full list, click on the following the link…

http://www.hays.com.au/common/pages/news/newsdesc.aspx?id=522

Cheers,

Annie Cerone