The number of people chasing jobs is growing faster than the jobs being advertised, according to a leading employment website.<\/p>\n
Seek’s September employment report showed a 0.1 percent increase in the number of job adverts on the previous month, the weakest growth since the middle of 2025.<\/p>\n
The number of jobs advertised rose 7.8 percent on a year earlier.<\/p>\n
The number of applications rose 2.9 percent on August, although the rate was 2.1 percent less than a year ago.<\/p>\n
“Candidates are applying in greater numbers, with applications per job ad rising at the sharpest pace since April 2024 … This suggests competition for roles remains high, even as hiring activity holds steady,” Seek NZ sales manager David Swift said.<\/p>\n
Strongest growth in advertised jobs was the consumer services sector driven by a 3 percent rise in hospitality and tourism positions.<\/p>\n
“Businesses [are] clearly gearing up for summer. We saw a real surge in demand for travel agents, tour guides and airline roles,” Swift said.<\/p>\n
There was strong annual growth was in mining, resources and energy jobs at more than 41 percent, close to four year highs.<\/p>\n
Professional services jobs, such as marketing, accounting, and IT roles went backwards for the month, with real estate related jobs showing the biggest annual decline.<\/p>\n
The South Island regions with strong agriculture and export focus led the job ad stakes.<\/p>\n
Tasman had the strongest monthly growth, followed by Southland and<\/p>\n
Otago, which had the strongest annual growth at more than 18 percent.<\/p>\n
Advert growth in Auckland and Wellington lagged most regions.<\/p>\n
The Seek report also noted significant growth in the mention of artificial intelligence in job adverts, 4 percent of all roles.<\/p>\n
AI references were notably present for ICT, marketing, communication, and consulting roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of people chasing jobs is growing faster than the jobs being advertised, according to a leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-631581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631581","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=631581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}