The Department of Home Affairs has published a critical skills list for comment . As to be expected, analysts, so-called experts and media have rushed to comment upon the alleged scarcity of skills without examining the list, the methodology used to arrive at the list and skills, or more accurately jobs, listed therein. As DHA mention in their press release, the Department of Higher Education and Training previously published the list. The first problem is one of methodology: the compilers rely completely on vacancies posted on Career Junction. Career Junction is a website of vacancies, a digital classifieds. They regularly post the skills purportedly in demand in the country. CJ is an indicator only but not a single comprehensive database of all vacancies and skills in the country at any moment. Second, can one seriously say that, at random, a cafe or restaurant manager, travel accommodation inspector, company secretary, event producer, false worker [sic], pharmacy sa...
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