DEEWR job vacancies fade

David Llewellyn-Smith

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

The DEEWR job vacancy report for December is out and fell 0.9% on the month:

The trend measures are rolling over after a very poor recovery:

Weakness was focused in NSW, WA and the ACT:

Skilled positions were weak:

A fairly dour report.

About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.