Career Index for October 2017

Some sectors witnessed an increase in jobs in the past few months like the building & construction, architecture and manufacturing & assembly sectors with the admin, sales, marketing and finance sectors decrease in job postings.

Over the past 12 months these sectors took a knock:

• ICT
• Medical & health
• Business & management

Demand vs Supply

The Demand graph provides a great indication of where the majority of employment takes place.

The IT, business & management and finance sectors are undoubtedly the most in-demand sectors with sales, admin, office & support and architecture & engineering sectors are among others listed.

ICT and medical & health vacancies decreased by 33%, while business & management vacancies decreased by 17%. The demand for admin, marketing and finance professionals is lower than from a year ago. The demand for sales professionals have increased by more than 20% year-on-year..