{"id":1594,"date":"2018-07-11T08:41:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T08:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2018-07-11T08:41:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T08:41:02","slug":"moonlighting-and-white-collar-jobs-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/news\/moonlighting-and-white-collar-jobs-on-the-rise","title":{"rendered":"Moonlighting and white-collar jobs on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures, Australia has just witnessed an unprecedented jump in the number of people who have another gig in addition to their main job. Based on the ABS\u2019s first quarterly national \u2018labour account\u2019 the number of people with secondary jobs jumped 7.3 percent, while the number in main jobs rose by only 2.9 percent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The best performing of the 19 industry groups measured by the ABS was professional services, which grew 13.1 percent, followed by utilities jobs and those in transport which rose by 11.6 and 8.6 percent respectively.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While most of the other sectors experienced jobs growth between September 2010 and September 2017, mining remained relatively flat-lined, with the wholesale trade, the worst performing sector down 6.5 percent. Also registering negative growth were arts and recreation services which contracted 5.5 percent, while jobs in media shrank by 5.3 percent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One interesting milestone within the ABS numbers was the burgeoning size of Australia\u2019s white-collar professional brigade, with accountants, engineers, lawyers, and scientists \u2013 now Australia\u2019s fourth largest industry group &#8211; accounting for 1.1 million jobs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Equally interesting, ABS data also revealed that Australians are working longer, while job vacancies are on the rise. While job vacancies were up year-on-year 15.8 percent, hours worked were up 3.4 percent over the year. However, its white-collar professionals putting in the hard yards, with the number of hours worked [in this sector] up 11.8 percent.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unsurprisingly, white-collar professionals also feature strongly in the moonlighting numbers, with over 70,000 of these job being secondary jobs where the person had another main job. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more white-collar jobs and more white-collar professionals burning the midnight oil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,1,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-progression","category-news","category-on-the-job"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}