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In 2017, News.com.au published an illuminating article profiling a skilled Australian IT worker that had arrived home from working as a project manager at Amazon’s Seattle campus but could not gain employment despite hundreds of job applications:
AT 25 years old, James was living a tech-head’s dream. The university graduate had been snapped up by a global tech giant after a short stint in software development at a Melbourne company. As a project manager at Amazon’s Seattle campus, he was in a high responsibility role and leading projects with massive scale…
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About the author
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.