00:00Off peak and peak slots.
00:04This clean energy start-up is hiring and competition for the jobs on offer is red hot.
00:11Every job we put out we get hundreds of applications come through.
00:14Finding enough tradies to install the solar panels and batteries Alan Hunter's customers want isn't so easy.
00:22Currently Australia is deploying around 24,000 systems a month on rooftops across the country
00:27and again that's capped due to workforce.
00:29Recruiters say it's easier for blue collar workers to land a job.
00:35Within the white collar space it's very much an employer's market.
00:38Unemployment rose to 4.1% in March after fewer than expected jobs were added to the economy.
00:45There were 32,200 more people employed and 3,000 others joined the jobless queue.
00:52The participation rate ticked up as more people looked for work last month
00:57but it remains off recent record highs.
01:00This government has overseen the lowest average unemployment of any government in the last 50 years.
01:07We're facing uncertain and tumultuous times and we know to make sure we improve those two budgets,
01:13the household budget and the government budget we need an economy that grows.
01:17The biggest risk to our economy doesn't come directly from US tariffs.
01:22It's more around how global growth will impact the Australian dollar consumer decisions here and business decisions locally as well.
01:31The uncertainty that's happening globally is affecting people's willing to invest in new jobs and new hires.
01:37That global uncertainty and increase in the unemployment rate make it more likely the Reserve Bank will cut interest rates
01:44in order to stimulate the economy when its board meets next month.
01:48Before these tariff announcements thought the Reserve Bank might only cut once this year,
01:53now we think it's going to be three times.
01:55Providing relief for borrowers as long as they keep their job.
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