For long-term unemployed people the most common main difficulty in finding a job was '”too many applicants for available jobs'” (14 per cent), followed by “too far to travel/transport problems” (13 per cent) and “own health or disability” (13 per cent).
However, the majority (82 per cent) of unemployed people are short-term unemployed (that is, they have been unemployed for less than one year), with one in four having been unemployed for less than four weeks.
Of those people who had been unemployed for under eight weeks, 20 per cent reported “no difficulties at all” in finding new work and the most common main difficulty reported was “too many applicants for available jobs” (13 per cent).
According to the ABS, for young people aged 15 to 24 years, the main difficulty in finding work was “insufficient work experience” (17 per cent), while for those aged 45 years and over it was “considered too old by employers” (17 per cent).
Of all unemployed people, 21 per cent had never worked before and 17 per cent had worked, but not in the past two years.
Last year Mission Australia worked with more than 154,000 Australian jobseekers, helping them to find and maintain sustainable employment.
Mission Australia Employment Solutions operates eight Department of Employment, Education and Workplace Relations programs nationwide - including Job Services Australia and Apprenticeship Solutions. Our challenge is to prevent more Australians from getting caught up in the long-term cycle of unemployment.
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