Thread: Is unemployment so low?

WA could be the way to go because the Gold Coast is close to being stuffed with water problems and soon the power problems will follow. We also have no real workable transport system. Roads are way behind and the local council have no idea about planning for future needs to do with anything on the coast. You will see and hear of a lot of businesses on the coast and I'm sure in a few other city's that will close in the next 12 months and move off shore. There needs to be a lot of changes in Aust if we are going to prosper.
I have been seriously checking out Tassie and WA for a permanent move.

Well just as a little insight,
I have been out of the workforce for just over a year looking after kids etc. I thought it would be easy to get back in and on a reasonable wage, how wrong was I??
Applied for 11 or so jobs and got interviews to 4 and was told "I was perfect for the job" in all of them, then come the wage negotiations. For one position I applied for, I was just asking for the average wage. The nice young lady told me that they were only prepared to offer $35k to 40k MAX I said thanks but no thanks and watched as the same job was advertised for another two months. she rang me the other day advising that the employer was now prepared to negotiate, I advised her that it was too late as I had already got a job and that I start this week.
It appears to me that the employers are really trying to put the screws in wage wise as apart the job that I took they all wanted to pay far less than the going rate and were prepared to play hardball. It was just lucky in my case that going back to work was not that pressing.