Before beginning your job search activities, it may be helpful to think about the jobs that suit your needs, skills and experience. To identify suitable job options, you may wish to consider prospects for employment, salaries, required education and skill levels, actual tasks involved in the job and working hours.
What are jobs with good prospects?
When you consider your job options it is important to look at the future prospects of a job. In other words, how easy is it going to be to get a job and what are the long term job prospects? If a job has poor prospects it may be harder for you to find work in that area.
Job prospects vary due to several factors:
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employment growth
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whether occupations are in growth industries
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unemployment and vacancy trends
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whether there are skill shortages for the occupation
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the number of people changing jobs but not changing occupations (job changing)
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the number of workers leaving an occupation (job openings).
Job turnover (job changing and job openings) is the main reason for job vacancies. If employment in your occupation is declining, job turnover may still result in job openings for you. Alternatively you may consider developing new skills in an industry with better job prospects. JobAccess has information on developing new skills:
Job Outlook
Job Outlook is a web site that provides information on over 350 occupation types in Australia. Job Outlook provides useful information on things like job prospects, weekly earnings and type of work.
Job Outlook rates job prospects from 'limited' to 'very good' . The ratings are indicative as they may vary from region to region, and will also depend on the skills and personal attributes of individual workers.
To obtain a list of jobs with good prospects, visit the Job Outlook web site (see our Related Links).
SkillsInfo
Skill shortages are anticipated in various industries in Australia over the next few years and these may create work opportunities. The SkillsInfo web site (see Related Links) provides information about what skills are in demand in different regions of Australia.