In early June Seek released their latest round of labour market statistics, showing some interesting trends. Firstly that the employment marketing might in fact be turning around. Second that the Australian Government’s prediction of 8.5% unemployment will prove wrong.

The evidence is clearest in new job ads registered with SEEK. Between August 2008 and March 2009 new job ads (seasonally adjusted) fell by 44.2%, at a monthly rate of 6.6%. While job ads continued to fall in April and May 2009, the rate of change has slowed significantly to only 1.9% in May.

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While recruiters have always background checked candidates, you the candidate can now conduct comprehensive research on the recruiter, hiring manager and employer in a way that was never before possible. Using search engines you can delve beyond the glassy corporate brochures and web sites to see what employees, customers and competitors are saying about the organisation. By researching the organisation you can determine many different aspects that might not be so obvious from the organisation’s web site.
In addition to using general search engines tools such as Glassdoor allows the anonymous …