The Australian has published a one-eyed propaganda piece entitled Job snobs ‘are leaving bosses in the lurch’, which claims that ‘lazy’ Australians are “actively snubbing work opportunities”.
The article is based loosely upon a survey from the Department of Employment, which claims almost 60% of businesses looking for lower-skilled roles are finding it hard to find new staff, while almost 50% are finding it hard in general to recruit new employees. The report found, amongst other things, that many potential employees were disinterested in the job, lacked personal presentation skills or submitted applications that were of poor quality:
The department research showed employers were responding to hiring difficulty by “lowering their requirements, spending more time on training, changing staff arrangements to cover the vacancy, using labour hire or contractors and extending the recruitment process or readvertising”.
