Surveying

• We’ve charted this mismatch with the Indigenous Jobs Map, using artificial intelligence to analyse more than 10 million job ads.
• The map, is an Indigenous-led project supported by researchers and experts across CSIRO and external organisations.

• Of course, Indigenous workers can apply for any job, regardless of whether it specifically targets or encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants.
• However, the 2.3% of job ads for Indigenous people or requiring Indigenous cultural capability reflects the strong demand for Indigenous talent in the Australian labour market.
• The number of these advertisements is increasing; in 2016 they represented 1.0% of Australian job ads and by 2022 they had reached 3.6%.

Geographic mismatch

• The size of the bubble represents the number of Indigenous workers in the region.
• Instead, we see many regions where demand for Indigenous workers is relatively high but the supply of Indigenous workers is relatively low.
• In contrast, in the New England region of New South Wales, there were 5,821 Indigenous workers and 2,483 Indigenous-focused job ads.

Limited range of job types

• For example, we counted 7,610 Indigenous focused job ads requiring a qualification in medicine.
• Employers post job ads seeking Indigenous workers with qualifications in society and culture, health and education.
• Job ads targeting Indigenous workers are not found across the board.
• The opportunities for Indigenous workers are limited in diversity and often not well-aligned with the educational pathways commonly chosen by Indigenous peoples.

Feast and famine

• The effect of this geographic and qualification mismatch is to create a landscape of feast (for some) and famine (for many others).
• On the flip side, there were very few employers targeting Indigenous workers with a building qualification.

Education is key

• But, ultimately, improving job opportunities for Indigenous Australians requires a whole-of-ecosystem approach involving Indigenous communities, educators, employers and policy makers.
• The Indigenous Jobs Map reveals how these efforts can be directed more effectively so they translate into employment outcomes.
• Read more:
  Indigenous-owned businesses are key to closing the employment gap

  The data also confirms education is the key pathway to highly skilled and well-paid employment.

• Among the select companies invited to participate in the Wave assessment, Constructor was the top-ranked vendor in the strategy category.
• Constructor also scored a 5 out of 5 in the "strategy" criteria of vision, innovation, roadmap, and adoption.
• For more information about Constructor's strengths and placement in "The Forrester Wave: Commerce Search and Product Discovery, Q3 2023," please see the report at: https://bit.ly/constructor-forrester-wave .
• 1Forrester Research, Inc., "The Commerce Search and Product Discovery Landscape," Emily Pfeiffer, May 11, 2023.

• VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: FMST) (CSE: FAT) (“Foremost Lithium”, “Foremost” or the “Company”), a North American hard-rock lithium exploration company, has undertaken an extensive summer exploration program on its “Lithium Lane Properties”, near the historic mining center of Snow Lake, Manitoba.
• DGC has applied its established targeting methodology to Foremost’s extensive geological database, integrating historical and recent exploration records to highlight high-priority targets.
• The properties are certainly not short on potential targets, and we look forward for results of this exploration program to help delineate drill targets on all our Lithium Lane Properties”.
• The property has not been subjected to substantial LCT Pegmatite exploration, making it a focus for the 2023 surface exploration initiatives.

• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230827909302/en/
  One Raffles Place Replaced Elevators (Photo: Business Wire)
  Fujitec Singapore Corpn.
• Ltd. (Head Office: Bedok South Avenue, Singapore; Managing Director William Wong), a group subsidiary of FUJITEC CO., LTD. (Head Office: Shiga Prefecture, Japan; President and CEO Masayoshi Harada), completed modernization* of 19 elevators in One Raffles Place (formerly OUB Center), Singapore.
• The new elevators equipped with the latest functions, offer increased speed and new systems to shorten riding time, offering greater comfort and more stability.
• *Elevator modernization is the process of improving elevator performance by transforming an old elevator into one equipped with the latest technology.