Australian Jobs 2007 is designed to help Australians find up-to-date information on the job they want. It provides a guide to the occupations and industries in which Australians work and highlights jobs with good prospects. It also provides information for key job seeker groups - people with disabilities; mature age; youth; Indigenous people and single parents, as well as information on accessing employment services and apprenticeships.
Job Outlook
online is a comprehensive source of data on occupations, and these data are updated annually. Data for occupations include:
Click here to view a PowerPoint presentation of Job Outlook Online.
In September 2006, the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) was released. ANZSCO replaces the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO) 2nd Edition. This diagram illustrates the structure of the ANZSCO Major and Sub-major groups. Click on this link for a PowerPoint file showing the complete structure.
Further information on the new ANZSCO structure is available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website.
The Occupational and Skills Analysis Section (OSAS) in the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) has detailed data on employment levels for occupations (four digit ASCO 2nd edition), in a ‘cascading’ Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet shows the latest trend employment data and percentage change calculations for one, two, five and ten years. Click on this link to open the ASCO employment spreadsheet or use the bookmarks below to go to other information sections on this page.
The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) monthly Vacancy Report provides newspaper-based data on vacancies for most skilled occupations (around 120 occupations), for each State and Territory, and the series go back to the early 1980s (except ACT). The DEEWR ICT Vacancy Index is part of the Vacancy Report and is based on a count of vacancies on three online recruiting sites.
- The Olivier Internet Job Index has data on online job advertisement trends for some occupations.
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Australian JobSearch has data on vacancies by occupation (current vacancies), although industry data are not available for ‘vacancies notified’.
The Higher Education Group in the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) maintains detailed data on higher education courses for individual higher education institutions, made available to users on request (once released).
The Good Guides Group links individual higher education courses to occupations and this information is also available on Australian Training (part of DEEWR’s Australian JobSearch) and myfuture.edu.au.
The training.com.au website is intended as a gateway to training information, especially VET. This website provides access to information on training-related, for example: the VET system, the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and New Apprenticeships.
Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) runs a number of surveys that inform on how well graduates are doing in the labour market, including: the Graduate Destination Survey (GDS), Graduate Starting Salaries (GSS), Postgraduate Destination Survey (Postgrad) and the Course Experience Survey (CEQ).
NCVER is the main source of data on nationally-recognised VET courses and research. Data are available in publications, including the quarterly update Australian vocational education and training statistics: Apprentices and trainees. More detailed statistics are available on request. NCVER has an extensive range of publications, many of which are relevant to skill shortages and emerging skills issues (for example, employability skills).
NCVER is also the manager of VOCED, the UNESCO/NCVER research database for technical and vocational education and training, an international database of research abstracts (in English).
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