Australia’s job market recorded a 5.0% decrease in online job ads last month (seasonally adjusted). Advertisements decreased across all major occupation groups, with Sales Workers, and Community and Personal Service Workers seeing the strongest decrease. New South Wales experienced the strongest decrease in job ads.
Job ad numbers were steady compared with the same time last year. While capital cities continued to record declines, regional Australia saw a modest increase over the year.
Hands-on to Heads-on: Growing demand for Storepersons and automated logistics.
Storepersons play a foundational role in Australia’s transport, warehousing and distribution systems, supporting the movement of goods across retail and industrial supply chains. Broad growth in logistics activity and complexity is consistent with growing employment and demand for Storepersons.
Expansion of e-commerce and omni-channel retailing has increased the volume, rapidity and coordination required in modern warehousing. Simultaneously, the continuing advancement of technological augmentation of logistics processes is changing the nature of the Storepersons role. The progression of technological and artificial intelligence augmentation across the transportation and logistics career ladder is likely to accelerate increases in qualification and skill requirements for roles such as Storepersons, which have traditionally featured low entry barriers and offered pathways for upskilling and in-sector mobility.
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