Australia’s number one employment marketplace has revealed new figures that show Australia’s job market is making progress, with manufacturing, transport and logistics among the top industries for employment opportunities.
As Australia begins its long road to recovery, there are promising signs that the job market is making progress, with new job ads posted on SEEK during the fortnight ending 31 May up 49.2 per cent compared to the April 2020 average.
According to SEEK, the fastest changes in job ad growth are manufacturing, transport and logistics, presenting a +59 percent increase.
Trades and services, healthcare and medical, education and training and hospitality and tourism also experienced job ad growth on SEEK last month.
SEEK data indicates that the jobs are in warehousing, storage and distribution, road transport, machine operators and assemble and process work.
The industrial lifting has shown 28.7 per cent job growth, making up 11 per cent of job ads and the construction sector has increased job ad growth by almost 50 per cent.
The Consumer Services sector has shown the biggest growth in job ads listed on SEEK in the past two weeks with 151 per cent growth compared to the April average.
All states and territories have seen an increase in job ads, and Queensland leads the charge with the largest growth in the past fortnight, up 62.5 per cent.
Currently, Automotive, labourers and machinists are where the jobs are at in the trades and services sector, whilst business and system analysts, software engineers, developers and programmers are being sought after in information technology sectors.