Registering a record growth in its employment rate, Australia is creating 1,100 full-time jobs each day in various sectors, according to latest data. The country piled on an extra 37,500 full-time jobs in April, following on from 37,400 in March which was revised up from an earlier estimate of 30,100, said the employment figures released Thursday. But, at the same time it lost 3800 and 9700 part-time jobs as employers made positions full-time, The Age reported. Since December, Australia has put an extra 110,000 people into work creating jobs at an annualised pace of 3 percent, well in excess of the 2.5 per cent forecast in this week's budget. Though many extra jobs were created in industries such as administrative services, warehousing and accommodation, Australia's biggest and fastest-growing employer was the health and aged care industry, propelled by population ageing.

“Aim high. There is no end to what you can achieve.” The words of T.V. Anupama, who won the fourth rank in the Civil Services Examination, are loaded with emotion and earnestness. Years of hard work to achieve her goal reflect. Ms. Anupama had set her goals when she was in school. Even when she joined BITS, Pilani's Goa campus, one of the premier engineering institutions in the country, her mind was fixed on the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Anything less would have left her dissatisfied. “I certainly would have written the examinations again if I did not get IAS,” she says during an interview interrupted by the continual inflow of relatives, friends and local people to congratulate her.

Although she was sure to crack the Civil Services Examinations, she did not expect a rank so high. In that, Ms. Anupama did the entire State proud. With a well-defined strategy to reach her high-set goals, this electronics engineering graduate