If you are a job seeker with experience in carbon reduction, environmental compliance or sustainability and you happen to have plans to head west, you are on the right track. Green job ads in Western Australia have grown by 40 percent in the past year since May 2011. New South Wales and Queensland are joint [...]
A recent report released by the US Department of Labour claims that ‘green’ jobs accounted for 2.4 percent of the USA’s total employment in 2010. In Australia we have been tracking green jobs through our Green Job Index since March 2010 and are currently reporting that 1.8 % of jobs advertised are green [...]
Green job ads are at an all time high, making up almost 1.8% of all jobs advertised. Data from the GreenJob Index, which tracks the monthly fluctuations of green job ads, shows green jobs are up a further 6% this month, up from 2574 jobs last month to 2730 this month.
The pursuit of green-collar [...]
As anticipated, the February 2012 Green Job Index shows a substantial improvement in the number of green jobs being advertised – just short of the high seen last July. Green jobs are up 56% on last month’s figures, from 1640 jobs mid-January to 2574 mid-February 2012. Of course, this month’s improved figures reflect seasonal employment [...]
With the Prime Minister’s claim of 6 million Australian jobs to be created over the next few years on the back of the Clean Energy Future Package, the Managing Director of GreenCollar Talent, Peter Hooper, cautioned that whilst the investment in renewable energies is crucial, we should not be tempted to dress up renewable [...]
At this traditionally quiet time of the year in Australian recruiting it’s not unusual to see a drop in jobs advertising overall. In the green jobs sector, however, we are seeing hiring for green jobs picking up again in relation to the market as a whole.
Despite global economic uncertainty, here in Australia improved political [...]
As the rest of the world waits for the European sovereign debt crisis to play itself out, the Australian job market holds its breath. There are clear signs of caution across all job sectors, and the green job market is no exception. Despite expanding Gross Domestic Product figures of 1.2% in the [...]
The anticipated green jobs boom, as a result of the passing of the Carbon Tax bill is still a few months off, according to GreenCollar Talent’s Green Jobs Index. Green job figures have remained stable, with green jobs making up 1.4% of all advertised jobs – just 0.1% down on last month’s figures. But the [...]
Latest figures from our Green Job Index show that the number of Australia-wide ‘green’ jobs being created is stable at almost 1.5% of all jobs. This is despite the decidedly lack-lustre performance from the solar industry. The end of federal subsidies and the cuts in New South Wales and Victoria to the feed-in tariffs has [...]
The number of new green collar jobs advertised has been steadily increasing since March last year –until now. Apart from the end of year Christmas period – which is traditionally a time of low job creation – this is the first time we have seen a midyear drop in green collar job advertising, down 8% [...]
