The Jobs Report

12/12/2023

Australia’s Jobs Market remains strong in the face of uncertainty

Australia’s Jobs Market defies the doom and gloom, but could policy impact its trajectory?

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12/12/2023

NZ’s Education Sector cries out for teachers

“We need to find a way to make teaching an attractive career again.”

RCSA calls on New Zealand’s incoming government to prioritise solving the dire skills shortage in the education sector.

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19/10/2023

Job Opportunities for Australians have slipped but there’s no need to panic

RCSA has released its latest Jobs Report and Australia continues to show resilience in the face of economic uncertainty. Job opportunities have dipped slightly but recruiters say the job market is starting to re-balance.

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19/10/2023

The big bounce back: New Zealand’s jobs market recovering from a disastrous June quarter

New Zealand’s Jobs Market is bouncing back following a disastrous June Quarter. Job opportunities have risen 3.7%, a miraculous recovery after a 10.8% slide in job ads last quarter.

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17/10/2023

Presenting The Australian Jobs Report for the July - September Quarter

The Australian market continues to show remarkable resilience against considerable economic and global political headwinds. The Australian Jobs Index fell 2.1% in the September quarter.

See the full details of the latest Jobs Report here: https://bit.ly/48ZcTlO

17/10/2023

Presenting The New Zealand Jobs Report for the July - September Quarter

The September quarter has seen stabilisation in the New Zealand employment market. The New Zealand Jobs Index rose an encouraging 3.7% in the quarter, a welcome return to the black after three consecutive quarters of contraction.

See the full details of the latest Jobs Report here: https://bit.ly/46yBCf3

09/08/2023

Economic Volatility - A Recipe for Tough Times

Australia’s Food and Accommodation sectors brace for more tough times as discretionary spending weakens.

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01/08/2023

Australia’s Job Market Holds Strong as New Zealand Suffers a Blow

The nation’s Job Market has retracted in the last quarter, by a whisker. RCSA’s latest Job Report data has been released and Australia continues to show resilience against economic uncertainty.

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01/08/2023

The Downturn is Here - New Zealand’s Job Market Contracts

New Zealand’s job market has taken a nosedive in the past three months and unemployment is predicted to rise. RCSA has just released its quarterly Jobs Report and the data shows an economic downturn has arrived.

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18/07/2023

Presenting The Australian Jobs Report for the April - June Quarter.

Australia’s National Job Index dipped a meagre 0.6% in twelve weeks indicating resilience in a market filled with uncertainty.

See the full details in the latest Jobs Report here: https://lnkd.in/gPBpntYy

18/07/2023

Presenting The New Zealand Jobs Report for the April - June Quarter.

The downturn has arrived. New Zealand’s National Job Index was down 10.8% in this Quarter.

See the full details in the latest Jobs Report here: https://bit.ly/44PBGWp

08/05/2023

The Australian Jobs Report indicates employers are favouring flexible workforce solutions over permanent staff.

Flexible job postings have risen in the last three quarters.

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08/05/2023

The New Zealand Jobs Report shows the demand for flexible workers remains strong, indicating businesses are insulating themselves in case of an economic crash.

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01/05/2023

The Australian January - March Jobs Report is here

Employment opportunities remain positive down under.

Australia’s job market remains robust in the face of economic headwinds that blow both locally and globally.

Click here to read the full report: https://bit.ly/3VihWXO

01/05/2023

The New Zealand January - March Jobs Report is here

What a difference a few months can make.

In the final quarter of last year, the Jobs Report dropped a bomb when it revealed job postings across New Zealand had plunged 22.4% on the previous three months.

2023 brings better news.

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22/03/2023

AUSTRALIA - Not a Pretty Pill to Swallow: The Ups and Downs of Healthcare Recruitment

When Covid hit Australia our healthcare sector was unprepared. It didn’t take long until our hospitals and medical centres were overrun.

The system needed all hands-on deck but finding doctors to plug staffing gaps became a huge problem. Director of 1Medical Recruitment, Ryan Kevelighan says he wasn’t surprised.

22/03/2023

New Zealand in Peril - Natural Disasters Test Resilience and Business Confidence

It’s just three months into the new year and 2023 has already brought an avalanche of heartbreak and devastation to New Zealand’s North Island.

The region has been ravaged by record breaking floods, a cyclone and even an earthquake, all in a matter of weeks. Rebuilding will be logistically tough, long and expensive.

14/03/2023

The Australian Jobs Report Quarter 4 is here

The Australian employment market continues to show remarkable resilience with the Australian Jobs Index easing just 1.0% in the December quarter.

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14/03/2023

The NZ Jobs Report Quarter 4 is here!

The December quarter has seen a significant decline in the New Zealand employment landscape. The National Jobs Index fell 22.4% in the last three months of 2022.

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18/10/2022

The Australian Jobs Report is out and it’s not all doom and gloom.

Talks of a recession are yet to spook the market. Employment across the country rose 0.3% in the September quarter.

While latest data indicates the market is beginning to settle, employers are still hiring at near record levels.

Click here to read more about the Australian Jobs Report for Quarter 3:

18/10/2022

It’s raining jobs in New Zealand. The latest Jobs Report is out and reveals that permanent and flexible vacancies are soaring.

The comprehensive data is indicating market confidence despite talks of a recession.

The National Index has risen 3.9% in the September quarter… a big comeback after falling by 8.8% last quarter.

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13/10/2022

The New Zealand Jobs Report for the June Quarter saw a substantial fall in job opportunities in healthcare. Whilst this is surprising, it is suspected that this is due to employers resisting the temptation to advertise a job that they see little prospect in filling.

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13/10/2022

The Public Sector saw the most growth in job vacancies this quarter, with opportunities rising by 19.2%. This is most likely the result of a change in government and the need to recalibrate workforces across the large number of new electorate and ministerial offices, as well as government departments, to better support what this Government intends to achieve. With the new Albanese Government shirking the use of recruitment, labour-hire, and external consulting services, it will be one to watch as to whether these roles will be filled amidst the skills and labour crisis.

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12/10/2022

In last Quarter’s New Zealand Jobs Report, a particularly buoyant jobs market was depicted in Wellington. This was short lived. Demand peaked in January and has slipped in each successive month. Whilst it may appear that the market is “shrinking”, opportunities in the region have near doubled since 2018.

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The second quarter of 2022 has seen a substantial decline in advertised jobs in New Zealand. The National Index fell 8.8%.

12/10/2022

The Jobs Report is a measure of demand for talent. Data is collected from over to 6,000 employer, recruiter and niche job boards across Australia, and broken down by job type, industry, occupation and region.

See what the latest data tells us about Australia’s employment market here:

The National Job Index rose 7.0% in the June quarter despite economic challenges. The Index stands at 181.43, closing in on the record set last November when lockdowns ended.

05/10/2022

Despite the demand for talent slipping this quarter, businesses in New Zealand are continuing to report that finding staff remains a big problem. To address this, employers shifting towards permanent engagement to ‘lock in’ talent. This was reflected in the most Jobs Report with flexible opportunities falling 2% more than permanent jobs.

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The second quarter of 2022 has seen a substantial decline in advertised jobs in New Zealand. The National Index fell 8.8%.

05/10/2022

Following some of the harshest lockdowns in the world in 2021, Victoria has made a remarkable economic recovery, with job vacancies growing 31.1% year-on-year. This is in comparison to New South Wales, which only experienced a 4.3% increase.

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The National Job Index rose 7.0% in the June quarter despite economic challenges. The Index stands at 181.43, closing in on the record set last November when lockdowns ended.

05/10/2022

Demand for Business Professionals in New Zealand slipped 12.8% in the June quarter, reflecting the general cautiousness in the face of greater economic challenges facing businesses and consumers. For context though, opportunities in this occupation are 53.9% higher than in mid-2020.

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The second quarter of 2022 has seen a substantial decline in advertised jobs in New Zealand. The National Index fell 8.8%.