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• 91% of  recruitment agencies are devoting more time and resources to finding candidates than they did a year ago. 85% are changing their methods including using new media to source candidates (RCSA)
• Flexibility and autonomy always rate in the top three of what mature workers want in a role
• Attracting talent is a struggle for more than two-thirds (69%) of organisations
• 94% of organisations believe that a diverse workforce is beneficial to their business

• Over 85% of the labour market growth in the decade 2002 to 2012 comes from the over 45s (Access Economics)

• Australia faces a shortage of more than 200K skilled workers over the next five years – and a deficit of 240K workers by 2016 (Standards Australia)

• By 2016 workforce exits will exceed workforce entries

• Nearly 70% of workers who have not yet retired say that they plan to work into their retirement years or never fully retire (AARP)

• Half a million Australians are ‘underemployed’ providing scope for the rise of the flexible, experienced worker (ABS 2008)
  
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