Mining vacancies flat in January

Tuesday 17 February 2015

DFP Recruitment has released its mining and resources jobs index for January, which registered a seasonally adjusted rise of 1% to 67.97, with vacancies down 35.79% nationally over the past year, but only 7.5% in the last 6 months and 5.1% in the last quarter.

January saw a 3.9% fall in permanent vacancies, but a 7.0% rise in temporary and contract job advertisements (see next chart).

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.