Even the precise number of vacancies is a subject of dispute.
Priority for applying for any vacancies is going to staff on the "at risk" list.
Filling key senior vacancies is one area where councils will continue to need interims.
Neither industrial nor demographic shifts nor a mismatch of skills with job vacancies is behind the increased rates of unemployment.
One reason for the vacancies is that the city's new system eliminated the use of waiting lists.
The number of vacancies is up 28% on the year – beating the 26% increase Adzuna reports across all UK industries.
The ratio of unemployed to job vacancies is falling, but not by much more than is typical at this stage of the cycle.That's still my view.
The percentage of small businesses with so-called "hard-to-fill" job vacancies is near a twenty-five-year low, and open jobs are being filled quickly.
The growth of vacancies is strongest in New South Wales and Victoria, and weakest is in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.
Another report says the number of advertised skilled job vacancies is 6percentt higher than last year, with health, accounting and construction workers in strongest demand.
The problem is, while the number of job vacancies is growing, it is doing so at a slower rate than before.
