{"id":287847,"date":"2026-02-17T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287847\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:04:07","slug":"employee-demand-eased-at-back-end-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287847\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee demand eased at back end of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/nz\/specialisation\/recruitment\/job-listings-in-new-zealand-up-13\/553689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the marginal recovery<\/a> we noted in spring was encouraging, this year-on-year listings dip of three per cent reminds us that the market remains in a period of cautious adjustment,&#8221; Williams said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/BU2602\/S00195\/job-market-listings-and-demand-cool-in-final-quarter-of-2025.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a statement<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Decline in job listings \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The biggest contributors to the national decline in job listings are healthcare (-13%), manufacturing and operations (-18%), and retail (-15%). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite healthcare listings and applications per listing falling this quarter, it remains one of our most in-demand categories. Caregiving and nursing roles are especially sought after,&#8221; Williams said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Further year-on-year declines were also recorded in other industries, with exceptions being: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tAgriculture, fishing, and forestry (+15%)&#13;<br \/>\n\tAutomotive (+14%)&#13;<br \/>\n\tConstruction and roading (+8%) \u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Candidate activity also down<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the report also revealed that candidate activity went down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/nz\/specialisation\/recruitment\/job-ads-continues-downward-trend-in-december\/473914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with the drop in job listings<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;While the marginal recovery we noted in spring was encouraging, this year-on-year listings dip of three per cent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1144,30081,26029,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-287847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-human-resources","tag-job-ads","tag-job-listings","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287847","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=287847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}