{"id":225861,"date":"2026-01-10T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225861\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:11:07","slug":"career-coach-breaks-down-2025-job-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225861\/","title":{"rendered":"Career coach breaks down 2025 job data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest monthly jobs report is out, which showed modest hiring in December.<\/p>\n<p>Employers added 50,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%. However, employment growth was at the weakest annually since 2020.<\/p>\n<p> Career coach Michelle Perchuk joined &#8220;The Rush Hour&#8221; on Friday to talk about what these numbers could mean for 2026, and how candidates can stand out in a competitive job market.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest monthly jobs report is out, which showed modest hiring in December. Employers added 50,000 jobs last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[134931,13721,138,219,9728,111,43,139,134930,69,134932,38,8623],"class_list":{"0":"post-225861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-annika-pergament","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-ny1-interviews","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-the-rush-hour","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225861","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=225861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}