2.2 million Australians unhappy and trapped in careers they didn’t plan

Launch of revolutionary online competency assessment tool offers hope to people wanting to find better jobs or forge new career paths Thursday, 12 June 2008: A landmark survey commissioned by CMyPeople, a division of listed HR consulting, outsourcing and recruitment company, Chandler Macleod (ASX: CMG), and undertaken by Galaxy Research has revealed that 2.2 million working Australians are unhappy in their chosen careers or professions. The research also showed that an astonishing 53% of Australian workers did not plan their careers but fell into them, which may go some way to explaining the high levels of dissatisfaction.  Read more

Careerone.com.au matches jobs to personality types

National employment website, CareerOne.com.au today announced the launch of the CareerOne.com.au Personality Profiler powered by CMyPeople  Read more

Skills can be taught quickly if key talent is retained

The silver lining of the current skills shortage could be that organisations will emerge with savvier employment practices and better long-term solutions for their businesses and their employees.  Read more

Honing a Career Choice

Thanks to the internet, we now have access to all the information we want on any job that springs to mind; where and what to study, the necessary skills, and the particular salary and working conditions. It would be quite easy to spend hours poring over the details - but whaf s the point if you don't have a realistic idea of the kind of jobs you are suited to? Outsourcing and recruitment company Chandler McLeod recently launched its latest competency assessment, CMyPeople; an online questionnaire that measures both intellectual and personality capabilities, and considers suitability across 1100 professions.  Read more

Testing Times lift Job Uptake

PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING is helping large numbers of unemployed people get back into the workforce by enabling companies to recruit based on inner capabilities rather than previous experience and skills – allowing employers to tap into an often forgotten talent pool. Sixty-one per cent of recently placed jobseekers from the highly disadvantaged jobseeker groups would not have gained sustainable employment without the use of competency assessments, according to Michael Hughes, executive director of Jobfind.  Read more

Workers Unhappy in their job

The survey, commissioned by recruitment firm Chandler Macleod, finds half of all workers did not plan their careers but fell into them. Sixty four per cent are looking to move. Chandler Macleod executive director Kevin Chandler said most Australians chose a career on "flimsy criteria". "No science is applied and more often than not people's career paths are left to chance," he said. "Not only does Australia have an escalating skills shortage, we have millions of people who are working in jobs they are not suited to and, as a result, are either actively or passively looking for other career opportunities without knowing what they really want."  Read more