There's a new push for hiring managers to look at job candidates' skills and potential, rather than their qualifications and experiences.
Microsoft and LinkedIn have joined forces and set a goal to help 250,000 companies make a skills-first hire.LinkedIn is extending access to free online learning courses through to the end of 2021.Learning modules cover a range of subjects from software development and IT administration to digital marketing and graphic design.However he warned the Senate that the forecast was not concrete.
Despite the predicted job losses, Dr Kennedy said he expected many of those people would find other work, which meant there would not be a significant rise in the unemployment rate."We could see a bump in the unemployment rate as the JobKeeper program comes to an end this month, perhaps through March/April," he added.
New figures from the Australian Tax Office show there were more than 1 million employees still relying on the wage subsidy at the end of January.