From mid-2017 onwards, year-on-year growth rates in the total number of Australian job advertisements consistently exceeded 10%. That was until mid-2018 when the annual growth rate fell back markedly and then continued to deteriorate for the remainder of 2018 and through 2019. According to the latest ANZ figures, total advertisements fell by 1.0% in October on a seasonally-adjusted basis, an unfortunate turnaround from September’s modest 0.3% increase. On a 12-month...