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Hiring is speeding up again in Australia and New Zealand in private companies. Government and public sector not so much, but all the consultancies have massive

Hiring is speeding up again in Australia and New Zealand in private companies. Government and public sector not so much, but all the consultancies have massive shortages which feeds into public sector quite a bit. I don’t think it ever really slowed like it has in the US. Then again inflation is only just starting to ramp in Australia. New Zealand doesn’t really have an excuse. Singapore seems pretty healthy too.

alliao 4y ago
English speaking and comparatively dirt cheap, fear is the good people will be working for US remote companies
- thrown_22 4y ago
  Good people are already working in the US. This is the people who couldn't be bothered moving there. I've had to tell recruiters straight up that they can't fill that position and never will in Australia/Canada/New Zealand because anyone who could do it is already doing it in the US for x5 the salary they are offering here. If only the US had a functioning healthcare system I'd move back there too.
  - cwilkes 4y ago
    If you are getting paid 5x then your healthcare costs aren’t nearly going to approach anything close to that amount. As a percentage relative to healthcare maybe (say $10 generic drugs instead of $2) but if you are getting $100k more a year who cares ?
    - thrown_22 4y ago
      > If you are getting paid 5x then your healthcare costs aren’t nearly going to approach anything close to that amount. Australia has a hard cap on how much you can be charged for. I lived in the US when I was a teen under the most gold plated of plated plans and after a protracted hospital stay that was over $2m we still have over $100k that was not covered after the company lawyers spent months fighting with the insurance lawyers. Things have only gotten worse since then. In Australia the same thing cost $2k out of pocket.
amoghs 4y ago
Things are so weird here in Oz. There are tons of layoffs in tech, but there's also a huge labour shortage.
- throwaway1777 4y ago
  Misallocation of capital.

alliao 4y ago

English speaking and comparatively dirt cheap, fear is the good people will be working for US remote companies

thrown_22 4y ago
Good people are already working in the US. This is the people who couldn't be bothered moving there. I've had to tell recruiters straight up that they can't fill that position and never will in Australia/Canada/New Zealand because anyone who could do it is already doing it in the US for x5 the salary they are offering here. If only the US had a functioning healthcare system I'd move back there too.
- cwilkes 4y ago
  If you are getting paid 5x then your healthcare costs aren’t nearly going to approach anything close to that amount. As a percentage relative to healthcare maybe (say $10 generic drugs instead of $2) but if you are getting $100k more a year who cares ?
  - thrown_22 4y ago
    > If you are getting paid 5x then your healthcare costs aren’t nearly going to approach anything close to that amount. Australia has a hard cap on how much you can be charged for. I lived in the US when I was a teen under the most gold plated of plated plans and after a protracted hospital stay that was over $2m we still have over $100k that was not covered after the company lawyers spent months fighting with the insurance lawyers. Things have only gotten worse since then. In Australia the same thing cost $2k out of pocket.

amoghs 4y ago

Things are so weird here in Oz. There are tons of layoffs in tech, but there's also a huge labour shortage.

throwaway1777 4y ago
Misallocation of capital.