{"id":27031,"date":"2025-07-28T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27031\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:28:06","slug":"applications-per-job-ad-hit-record-high-in-australia-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27031\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications per job ad hit record high in Australia \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This rise is due to an increased candidate pool, rather than candidates applying for more roles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Chapman, more workers have entered or re-entered the workforce, while there are others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/financial-wellness\/more-australians-eyeing-new-jobs-in-2025-amid-lack-of-employer-support\/522558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who have taken on a second job<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is likely in response to increased living costs, and as a result, competition is extremely strong for most available roles,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Most states and the Australian Capital Territory saw an increase in applications, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seek.com.au\/about\/news\/article\/seek-employment-report-june25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the report noted<\/a>. The highest increases were recorded in:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tWestern Australia (4%)&#13;<br \/>\n\tSouth Australia (3%)&#13;<br \/>\n\tQueensland (3%)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Job openings decline<\/p>\n<p>But as applications hit a record-high, job openings across the country declined in June, according to the SEEK report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This rise is due to an increased candidate pool, rather than candidates applying for more roles.&#8221; According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,5449,26283,26284,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-27031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-human-resources","12":"tag-job-ads","13":"tag-job-applications","14":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27031","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=27031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}