What do you say on an interview when they ask this

[fdcg27]

What is the job market like for skilled workers in Australia?
Here, things are tight enough that anyone with a decent resume can get hired pretty easily, although we all know that to be subject to an abrupt change.
Probably the biggest red flag in anyone's resume is an unusual number of job changes over time or long gaps in employment history. That would require a little explaining, as it probably should.

 

[Dyusik]

Originally Posted By: Rand
Originally Posted By: Dyusik
Easy. I missed work once, for 3 hours, due to uncontrollable vomiting. Once it was done, came back and finished my shift. Missing work because you're sick is nonsense.


Ah you are that guy.

The one that gets me sick 2-3x a year. Coughing all over.. handling the shared equipment. ugh...

PS at my job if you are vomiting they send you home.. you arent allowed to work until a doctor clears you.

Yup, a pure communist.
Isolation mask works wonders, no one ever got sick from me, in many years, 100s of people.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted By: Shannow
Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix
Two times a year is probably way below the average. I usually 'burn up' all my allotted sick leave (10 days a year) because if I don't use it I only get paid about 1/4 of it's value when it rolls over. Using it, I get full pay and get the day off.

It's illegal to pay out sick leave here in Oz. I'v got 2years+ accrued

I had 2 days off in 2014 when I had Bell's Palsey.


How many hours a year do they give employees? Sounds like if not used it just keeps accuring and is good to use anytime at that employer. You must have been at the same job for a long time.

In my case, only 1/2 of any unused sick leave left over on the employee's anniversery date remained in the SL account. So if 40 hrs remainded, only 20 rolled over into the next year. Whatever SL balance is in the employee's account when they retire is paid at 1/2 their hourly salary rate.

 

[Silk]

It's never been a problem for me...although someone once said my CV reads like a Who's Who. 1970 to 1990 - 20 jobs. 2007 to present...11 jobs. They all know my job history, it's not a problem at all.

 

[Shannow]

Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix
How many hours a year do they give employees? Sounds like if not used it just keeps accuring and is good to use anytime at that employer. You must have been at the same job for a long time.


I signed up as a Cadet Engineer (last two years of Uni) in 1989...have worked in 5 companies, been hired out to an MDF factory during a lean spell, and privatised, but kept my start date.

Back then it was 11 full days and 11 half days, needing GM approval to stitch the half days together...now it's 126 hour P.A.

Originally Posted By: fdcg27
What is the job market like for skilled workers in Australia?
Here, things are tight enough that anyone with a decent resume can get hired pretty easily, although we all know that to be subject to an abrupt change.


Bit strange, there are a handfull of us in the country with this skillset who could find another gig easily...but the locations are fairly well dispersed over a country the physical size of the US.

Skilled in general people are finding it tricky to find work, but employers are finding it difficult to attract...again, I think it's the distance thing.

UK is the leader in this issue...they've set a hard line on the closure dates of thermals...and are trying to attract people to help them get there, but the youngsters (quite rightly) are seeing that path as a dead end, and giving their peers a running start in other fields.