{"id":265355,"date":"2025-11-06T00:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265355\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:11:10","slug":"more-than-a-million-australians-looking-for-a-job-new-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265355\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a million Australians looking for a job, new data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a million Australians were looking for a job in 2024-2025, with work flexibility a key factor for many.<\/p>\n<p>New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics found that 1.2 million people were looking for a paid job in that financial year.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost half of the 1.2 million people who wanted a paid job in 2024-25 were unemployed. The rest were either not actively looking for work or not immediately available for work,&#8221; ABS head of labour statistics Sean Crick said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/38ae1c7d-3384-48da-9664-1eff6ef08fda.jpeg\"   alt=\"Generic street scenes in Siidney CBD\"\/>There were 1.2 million people looking for a job in Australia last year. (Louie Douvis)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost 1.1 million of this group were available to start work immediately or within the next four weeks, with a further 130,000 not available to start work within the next four weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The difficulties with finding a suitable job differed in some ways between women and men.<\/p>\n<p>The most important factors for women were being able to work part-time hours, and finding a job that matches skills and experience, with 33 per cent of women stating these factors as very important.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a third of men (32 per cent) reported that the most important factor to get them to work was finding a job that matches skills and experience, followed by support for training or study to improve skills (24 per cent) and ability to work part-time hours (23 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWomen made up the majority of those people not available for work within four weeks, at 65 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half (43 per cent) of women who wanted to work but were not available within four weeks reported caring for children as the main reason they were unavailable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/content\/2024\/12\/12\/10\/25\/top-10-most-in-demand-jobs-for-2025-and-beyond\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/886a1819-4c0d-44f1-af7a-209d9779d498.png\"   alt=\"Most in demand jobs lead\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 10 most in-demand jobs for 2025<\/p>\n<p>There were also 800,000 people who worked part time and wanted more hours, with 89 per cent of these people available to start working more hours within four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 5.1 million parents in the past financial year with children under 15, almost 700,000 didn&#8217;t have a job, of which 16 per cent were looking.<\/p>\n<p>There were about 700,000 people who had a long-term health condition and wanted a job.<\/p>\n<p>While long-term health conditions were a common reason people were unavailable to start work, not all people with a long-term health condition were unable to work.<\/p>\n<p>Long-term health condition or disability was the main reason for 39 per cent of men who were not available for work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a million Australians were looking for a job in 2024-2025, with work flexibility a key factor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-265355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}