Australia’s 2014 recruitment landscape will be shaped by 10 key trends including skill shortages, according to recruitment firm Hays.
The year ahead will be shaped by increased business confidence which started to rise at the end of 2013.
Hays Australia managing director Nick Deligiannis said this confidence will shape the labour market in the first few months of this year.
He said consumer confidence is also strong as a reult of low interest rates, a strong property market and rising share prices.
The Australian economy is expected to grow by 2.8 per cent in 2014.
"This will lead to increased staff turnover as candidates become more confident and explore their options," Deligiannis said.
"As the technology, marketing and finance worlds merge it will be key to find people who can move across all sectors, with multilevel knowledge."
The issue of big data will continue to increase IT project manager positions while professionals with the ability to recognise patterns in data from multiple sources and make predictions will be in hot demand.
Hays predicts serious skillls shortages in the area of mobile application development as the workforce continues to become more mobile with skills shortaes also likely across construction and engineering roles.
The mining industry will continue to stabilise but opportunities for skilled tradespeople remains and the demand for quality trades and labour staff in the construction industry will intensify throughout the year.
Hays said as employees become more confident and start to explore their options in the job market, employers will need to turn their focus back to retention.
