Japan – JAIC full year revenue tumbles 26.1% as it reports losses

JAIC (7073: TYO), a Japan-based professional services firm primarily engaged in education-integrated recruitment services, reported revenue today for the full year period ended 31 January 2021 of JPY 2.24 billion (USD 20.5 million), a decrease of 26.1% compared to the same period last year.

Australia – People Infrastructure to acquire nursing agency

Australia-based workforce management company People Infrastructure announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Australia-based SwingShift Nurses.

Swingshift Nurses was established in 2000 and is a nursing agency focused on mental health.

According to People Infrastructure, it is a contracted...

Singapore – Labour market shows strong signs of recovery, Indeed finds

Singapore’s job market recovery continued throughout February. According to Indeed, job postings exceeded pre-Covid levels in mid-October and have since surged during January and February.

By the end of February, the number of job listings in all categories and occupations was up 19.2% from their level...

Australia – Seek job ads up 12.4% in February

Job ads on Australian job board Seek are up 12.4% year-on-year in February 2021.

The 12.4% growth is an improvement over the previous month’s 6.5% year-on-year growth. It is also the fourth consecutive month of year-on-year job ad growth, Seek noted.

Seek job ads were up by 4.1% month-on-month.

By industry,...

New Zealand – Number of filled jobs down slightly in December quarter

Filled jobs across New Zealand in the December 2020 quarter fell by almost 1% or 19,000 jobs, compared with the December 2019 quarter, data from Stats NZ showed.

The fall is the first year-on-year fall since the PAYE-tax-based series began in June 2011 and it follows slowing growth in filled jobs in the...

India – Low-skilled jobs platform Apna raises $12.5 million (TechCrunch)

India-based Apna, a professional platform that has become home to millions of low-skilled workers in India raised USD 12.5 million, reports TechCrunch. It comes five months after securing $8 million from high-profile investors. One-year-old Apna said Sequoia Capital India and Greenoaks Capital led the...

Taiwan – Nearly half of women say they have experienced harassment in workplace (Focus Taiwan)

Nearly half, 43%, of Taiwan's women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace but only 10% of them reported these cases to their companies, reports Focus Taiwan, citing survey data from the Modern Women's Foundation. Among them, 41.7% have received unwanted sexual attention from supervisors...

Australia – Seek appoints CFO

Australian job board Seek announced the appointment of Kate Koch as Chief Financial Officer.

Koch replaces Geoff Roberts whose retirement from Seek, effective 30 June 2021, was announced in January.

Koch is currently the CFO of RMIT University, having held that role since 2017. Prior to that she had broad...

India – Talent demand rises in February, IT and Telecom lead the way

Demand for talent across India rose by 14 points in February 2021 when compared to the same period a year ago, according to the latest TimesJobs RecruiteX, a monthly recruitment index that records the demand and supply of talent in India’s formal jobs sector (India Inc.).

The year-on-year talent demand...

India – Ecommerce and logistics companies turning to performance pay (Economic Times)

Wages for blue-collar workers in India have largely remained steady compared to last year, but employees are getting some relief now in the form of joining perks and more performance-linked pay, reports the Economic Times. Recruitment firms such as Betterplace, Waah Jobs, TeamLease and ManpowerGroup...