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Job advertisements on the online portal SEEK in August were down by 5.3% month-on-month but up 55.9% year-on-year, the company says.

Australian electric vehicle sales have picked up in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 8688 vehicles sold in the six months to June, compared to 6900 for the whole of calendar 2020.

Online job advertisements on the site SEEK in March showed a rise of 75% year-on-year, the company says, offering a reminder that March 2020 was the month when the pandemic first had an effect on the job market.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has allocated $1.6 million in funding to energy infrastructure company Jemena to undertake a residential electric vehicle (EV) managed charging trial with four other electricity networks in the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania.

A strong showing by Victoria has helped boost online job ads for October, the recruitment firm SEEK says, adding that though ads were up by 8.5% month-on-month, there was a 11.7% fall year-on-year, the lowest year-on-year drop since the beginning of the pandemic. Last month, the month-on-month growth was higher, at 9.25%.

A survey of cyber security professionals in NSW has found that 96.5% were working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic and the income of 12.6% had been affected due to the outbreak.

The Australian Government has funded the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to the tune of $2.4 million to run a vehicle-to-grid trial in Canberra, using 51 Nissan Leaf electric vehicles.

NBN Co says it has achieved or exceeded its National Broadband Network construction targets for 25 consecutive months by more than 230,000 premises, making 11.73 million premises ready to connect by 30 June this year.

Internet infrastructure is being put under significant pressure as rolling lockdowns begin to bite as COVID-19 and associated self-isolation measures transform working practices, according to data from a commercial spin-off from Monash University.

Huawei Australia has boosted its sponsorship of rugby team the Canberra Raiders, becoming the naming rights sponsor for the Huawei Raiders Centre in the ACT, with the announcement coming just two days after the company revealed a restructure of its Australian operation and the shedding of about 500 jobs.

Nearly half of Australian kids aged 6-13 years of age own or use a mobile phone, according to new research.

The Information & Communication Technology sector is one of the top five industries showing the most salary growth in 2019, with average salaries upwards of $108,000, according to the latest salary report from jobs board SEEK.

Software applications, digital solutions and managed services vendor Civica has announced that aged care and community housing provider BaptistCare NSW & ACT is its first Australian customer to go live on Cx, the cloud-based, tenant-centric community housing management solution.

Australia’s technology sector registered the best result for November for executive employment demand, according to the latest report from recruitment firm EL Consult, with demand rising by 12% to redress losses in the prior two months.

Australians are expected to spend $10.7 billion this Christmas, an average of $573 each, according to a new survey which reveals that millennials — or those between the ages of 22 and 36 in 2018 — will be some of the more generous spenders, splurging far more on gifts than the national average.

The demand for executives in the Australian ICT sector waxes and wanes on a monthly basis, but was second only to the financial sector in demand for August as the country’s jobs market trends towards its highest level in seven years.

Executive employment in Australia is in a “golden age”, according to one search firm which reveals an increase of 15% in demand for executives in August – with IT executive demand second only to the management sector.

In with the classy act of winning the 2018 Telstra Australian Capital Territory Business of the Year is cyber security firm Penten, whose win dials things up to eleven!

Civica has announced its latest partnership with BaptistCare (NSW and ACT) to supply its Cx Housing Management solution in a first for the A/NZ region, in a five-year deal.

The IT sector has been cast as the “real corporate game changer” for business in Australia, with the latest report on executive demand in the sector showing a 9% increase for March over February, with New South Wales and the ACT the clear leaders - and executive jobs up 47% on a year ago.