{"id":634196,"date":"2026-10-18T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634196\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:06:10","slug":"competition-among-job-seekers-rising-at-fastest-pace-in-more-than-two-years-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634196\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition among job seekers rising at fastest pace in more than two years \u2013 Seek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cJob ads in New Zealand rose again in September, extending a run of month-on-month growth that\u2019s held for some time now,\u201d Swift said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThat said, the pace has eased over the past six months, settling into a narrower band of 0.1% to 0.3% month on month growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cStill, hiring demand remains well above last year\u2019s levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The South Island outpaced the rest of the country for monthly hiring activity, with Tasman (+2.3%), Southland (+1.8%) and Otago (+1.7%) posting the strongest monthly gains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Job ad volumes in Auckland rose 0.7% on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Hawke\u2019s Bay (-1.5%) and Taranaki (-1.2%) were among the few regions to ease month on month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHospitality and tourism had a particularly strong September, growing over 3% in the month, with businesses clearly gearing up for summer,\u201d Swift said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe saw a real surge in demand for travel agents, tour guides and airline roles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Across all sectors, only professional services fell on a monthly basis in September, with demand for marketing and communications roles down 2.1%, accounting roles down 1.3% and information and communication technology roles down 1.1%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Demand for artificial intelligence (AI) skills within the workplace grew, with job ads referencing AI skills rising 3.7% in September, compared with the previous month and are now 88.2% higher year on year.<\/p>\n<p>Stay ahead with the latest market moves, corporate updates, and economic insights by subscribing to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Business newsletter<\/a> \u2013 your essential weekly round-up of all the business news you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cJob ads in New Zealand rose again in September, extending a run of month-on-month growth that\u2019s held for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3471,1975,138,4596,3105,29420,78,3112,130,111,139,69,15148,801,11925,21971,1305,131,1237,1530],"class_list":["post-634196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-among","tag-at","tag-business","tag-competition","tag-data","tag-fastest","tag-in","tag-job","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pace","tag-rising","tag-seek","tag-seekers","tag-show","tag-than","tag-two","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634196","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=634196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}