A drop off in advertised vacancies has led to a rise of “job hugging”, the trend of workers reducing their job searches and staying put in their current roles.<\/p>\n
New data published by LinkedIn has highlighted the growing competition professionals face to secure a new job.<\/p>\n
According to the research, in Ireland, job search intensity \u2013 the ratio of applications to applicants \u2013 fell by 3.9% year-on-year in October.<\/p>\n
LinkedIn’s data also shows that 37.3% of all job postings in Ireland in October offered hybrid working.<\/p>\n
Ireland ties with the United Kingdom for the highest availability of hybrid across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.<\/p>\n
Ireland also ranks highly for fully remote positions, placing second in EMEA with 8.2% of all job postings offering the opportunity to work exclusively from home.<\/p>\n
Applications for remote jobs made up almost one in five job applications.<\/p>\n
“Internationally and in Ireland, we are seeing a trend where more workers are opting to stay in their current roles rather than actively seeking new opportunities,” said LinkedIn Ireland Country Manager Cara O’Leary.<\/p>\n
“This is down to a more competitive jobs market as companies advertise fewer roles.<\/p>\n
“At the same time, Ireland continues to stand out as a leader in flexible work, with hybrid roles now accounting for more than one-third of all job postings.<\/p>\n
“Remote opportunities also remain highly sought after, with Irish workers applying to them at even higher rates than the European average.<\/p>\n
“Flexibility continues to be a key differentiator for companies seeking to attract and retain the best talent,” Ms O’Leary said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drop off in advertised vacancies has led to a rise of “job hugging”, the trend of workers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-355215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355215","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=355215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}