Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
"The Contract market has fared slightly better
than the Permanent market returning an overall increase of 0.76%.
"This is a marginal increase but still points to maybe the hesitancy of
organisations to fully commit to permanent hiring when there is so much
uncertainty about the market place. All sectors seem to share the
increase and decrease with the notable decreases being in Hardware
Engineers (45.45%) and Sales positions (64%).
"Balancing this, Security and Team leaders have recorded increases of
62.07% and 65.22% respectively. This can be attributed to the stage
that these projects are at and the need to finish projects off but
using the Contract workforce to do this with the uncertainty of
forthcoming work."
In a worrying conclusion, the previously optimistic Best report finishes on a gloomy note.
"It could well be that the worldwide slowdown could finally be having an effect on the IT market in Australia."
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