Hard times as jobs and economic growth falls

Resume writers and employment services experts are on the front line of the jobs market. We are seeking massive upheavals in the market with tens of thousands of people in a desperate plight.

Australia has permanent underclass and it’s growing due to the Covid-19 restrictions. As reported in the media, jobs at bottle shops are getting more than 500 applications. Administration assistant jobs are getting more than 600 applications. In Melbourne recently, a call centre job at the ATO got about 5000 applications.

Many applicants never hear back. An old recruiter trick which trammels the applicant’s dignity.

Since March, when state governments began announcing lockdowns amid rising case numbers, tens of thousands of jobs have disappeared as entire industries fold in on themselves.

In June, the official unemployment figure was 7.4% and the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, admitted the figure would have been closer to 13% if not for the government’s jobkeeper program.

On Thursday, Scott Morrison, said the official figure was likely to reach 10% anyway by the end of the year, and that the effective rate would be more like 13%.

These figures are MASSIVELY understated. Real unemployment is closer to 18 per cent and youth unemployment is closer to 40 per cent.

Across the country, thousands of the newly unemployed are living hand to mouth amongst those abstract and dodgy numbers.

Consider people from overseas who can’t get JobSeeker. They’re living in penury. Some are on visas and they can’t return home due to border closures.

Job seekers are feeling stress and anxiety associated with the tedious hours spent filling out applications for jobs with employers who, in most cases, will never contact them.

They fear impending cuts to the JobSeeker and JobKeeper programs, and, for some, a likely end to mortgage repayment freezes.

Before Covid-19, Australia had very weak productivity growth, very weak income growth, economic growth was quite anaemic. These are hard times.

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