Northland\u2019s jobseeker levels <\/a>came as no surprise to her. <\/p>\n\u201cI think Northland\u2019s always a bit slower to come out of whatever economic impact there is, a bit slower to recover from the knocks.\u201d <\/p>\n
Muriel Willem, director and lead careers practitioner at New Focus NZ, said the wellbeing and community-development company had noticed an increase in redundancies over the last six months. <\/p>\n
That was particularly in trades associated with building projects that had stalled with the economic downturn, as well as hospitality after cafe closures. <\/p>\n
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New Focus founder Muriel Willem is a career development and employment specialist based in Northland.<\/p>\n
She said clients who had been made redundant often worked through shock, disappointment, sadness and anger. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe process can be an emotional rollercoaster, especially for those who haven\u2019t needed to update a CV for years or previously found work through word of mouth.\u201d <\/p>\n
Willem said people over 60 struggled disproportionately with redundancy. <\/p>\n
\u201cOften they have CVs full of experience and knowledge, yet with retirement only a few years away and competition from younger applicants who may accept lower pay rates, they are often overlooked in the job market.\u201d <\/p>\n
However, she said mental health was often the greatest barrier for anyone returning to employment. <\/p>\n
Trade Me data from July to September showed a 2% decrease in job listings in Northland, which head of Trade Me jobs Nicole Williams said was driven by major centres like Auckland and Wellington recording drops. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe know job hunters are still finding it tough to land on their feet with the unemployment rate [nationally] at 5.2%,\u201d Williams said. <\/p>\n
Northland received the highest growth in applications per listing year-on-year. <\/p>\n
Trades and services had the most listings started (approximately 22%), and this category saw 4.7% quarter-on-quarter growth and +14.1% year-on-year growth. <\/p>\n
Other categories experiencing quarter-on-quarter growth in the region were transport and logistics (up 24.2%), retail (23.3%), healthcare (18.3%) and construction and roading (17.6%). <\/p>\n
The average salary for Northland jobs listed during the July-September quarter was $73,858, a record high. <\/p>\n
Brodie Stone covers crime and emergency for the Northern Advocate. She has spent most of her life in Whang\u0101rei and is passionate about delving into issues that matter to Northlanders and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe narrower the field, the less likely it is you\u2019re going to find employment.\u201d Jones said one man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2840,74,1863,99446,138,2841,99445,45643,17827,302,3112,20433,4858,11517,111,139,79174,69,5202,4056,1136,3109,4147,3599,8610,13172,3258,165,8229,60994,1142,3608,6923,1316,540,71895],"class_list":["post-148638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-across","tag-after","tag-back","tag-belts","tag-business","tag-country","tag-disestablished","tag-happens","tag-highlight","tag-its","tag-job","tag-jobseeker","tag-layoffs","tag-loses","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-northtec","tag-nz","tag-part","tag-person","tag-private","tag-public","tag-redundancy","tag-roles","tag-sectors","tag-spotlight","tag-struggles","tag-their","tag-they","tag-tighten","tag-trend","tag-were","tag-what","tag-when","tag-where","tag-wider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}