{"id":429325,"date":"2026-01-22T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429325\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:58:07","slug":"hr-and-recruitment-job-ads-climb-to-defy-national-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429325\/","title":{"rendered":"HR and recruitment job ads climb to defy national trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, job ads in December went down 1.2% month-on-month, and are were down 3.5% year-on-year. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Job ads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/recruitment\/hr-recruitment-job-ads-up-slightly-in-september-seek\/553640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">continued trending down in December<\/a>, rounding out the softening that began in August and bringing the trend decline to 3.5% year-on-year,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seek.com.au\/about\/news\/article\/seek-employment-report-december25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said Blair Chapman<\/a>, SEEK senior economist. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hiring typically slows down ahead of the Christmas and New Year period and the 2025 slowdown was a little bigger than we&#8217;ve seen historically.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The biggest drop in monthly job postings was recorded in the legal industry, with a 3.4% decline. This was followed by the retail and\u00a0consumer products (-2.6%) and then the insurance and superannuation (-2.2%) industries. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/recruitment\/australian-employers-expect-hiring-to-ease-in-early-2026\/559537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traditionally brings renewed momentum<\/a> into the employment market, as businesses reemerge re-emerge from holiday mode,&#8221; Chapman said. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overall, job ads in December went down 1.2% month-on-month, and are were down 3.5% year-on-year. \u00a0 &#8220;Job ads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,225026,164,12348,5449],"class_list":["post-429325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-candidate-activity","tag-economy","tag-hiring","tag-human-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429325","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=429325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}