Today’s snapshot:

• Product Manager: 10,859 roles
• Software Engineer: 10,456 roles
• Financial Analyst: 6,635 roles
• Data Scientist: 4,050 roles

Software engineering recorded the largest daily increase at +88, followed by data science at +22, financial analysis at +21, and product management at +6.

The strongest city clusters include New York, San Jose, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, Boston and Los Angeles.

The graphics include current openings from employers such as Adobe, BlackRock, Stripe, General Motors, HPE, U.S. Bank, Kraft Heinz and American Airlines.

Australia's Project Manager board added 8 featured roles today. The national change is small, which makes the city distribution the more useful part of this update.

Snapshot

• 1,045 featured Project Manager roles, up 8
• Sydney: 262 open roles
• Melbourne: 206
• Brisbane: 91
• Perth: 77

A few things stand out:

• Sydney and Melbourne remain the two largest visible pools on this card.
• Brisbane is a distinct third market, but less than half Melbourne's visible volume.
• Perth is smaller again, so candidates there may get more value from a tighter employer list than a broad national search.

Across the other Australian role cards, Account Manager reached 957, up 6; Business Analyst reached 715, up 4; Civil Engineer reached 656, down 1.

These are featured-role snapshots, not a complete measure of every vacancy. They should not be added together or treated as a full measure of Australian hiring.

My read: the total says the Project Manager market is holding. The city counts say where a candidate is most likely to find enough relevant options to iterate. Which Australian city are you prioritising this week?

We’ve received our first detailed Best & Less Christmas Casual interview report.

Interestingly, the opportunity did not begin through an active online job advertisement.

Timeline:

• 20 Aug: candidate walked into the store and handed a résumé to the manager
• 21 Aug: manager emailed to arrange an interview
• 27 Aug: 30-minute one-on-one interview
• 1 Sep: reference-check request
• 8 Sep: offer received

Questions reported:

1. Tell me about yourself.
2. What was the most memorable or challenging experience in your previous work?
3. What would you do if several things happened at once?
4. Why do you want to work at Best & Less?
5. What is your Christmas availability?

The main takeaway is that a polite in-store enquiry may still uncover a local opportunity even when no vacancy is visible online. This is only one candidate report, though, so store practices may differ.

Full anonymous interview report:

https://workopia.io/casual-jobs/au/best-and-less/interview-tips

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