Unemployed and career-nervous Australians are turning to the Defence Force in droves through the COVID-19 pandemic, with year-on-year applications up close to 40 per cent in April alone.
Victoria and NSW recorded respective 24 per cent and 14 per cent increases in applications for the December-March period, while the biggest spikes were in the Northern Territory and Western Australia . She believed the 2020 interest was also driven by the ADF's community-facing presence during the summer bushfires and the sharpening of its marketing strategy.The rate in which prospective recruits could be absorbed into Defence depended on the their existing skills and the roles they wished to fill, she said, with priority areas including communications, officer training and trades-based jobs, including engineering.
Dr Bright said the interest in Defence jobs was one example of the COVID-19 workforce upheaval and predicted there would be "all sorts of bizarre flow-on" effects long into the future which were still too difficult to predict. "There are so many factors ... which means you can’t actually predict where you will be in five years’ time," Dr Bright said.
Zhope10 More bullshit news... are you kidding ? If true, this is just work for the dole ?
Zhope10 like in US the armed forces are recruited from poor background like blacks Latinos n poor whites The rich one would avoid it Not worth dying for uncle Sam
Zhope10 Oh I dont want no more of army life...
Zhope10 Plenty of work too with US led 5 Eyes itching for a war with China. ..
Zhope10 kuku27 If so, Australia will turn into Army Camp, who will do other jobs. Let them begin software for US corporates
Zhope10 Oh dear.