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Speaker 1: More signs of New Zealand and turn around. Job ads

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Speaker 1: are up seven percent on a year ago, best November

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Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two. Sport and wrecker hot along with construction,

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Speaker 1: tourism and education applications perab though interestingly, are also up.

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Speaker 1: A Rob Clark, a six country manager, enters back with us,

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Speaker 1: Rob morning, Good morning, mich seven percent at any other

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Speaker 1: time year on year. Are we starting to roll a

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Speaker 1: bit here? Is that a good number or we're still cautious?

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Speaker 2: It's a good number we are seeing. I would describe

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Speaker 2: it as modest gain. So that's the fourth consecutive month

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Speaker 2: we have seen a one percent increase, which gives us

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Speaker 2: a sort of three percent quarter on quarter growth. So

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Speaker 2: it's certainly a lot better than it has been over

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Speaker 2: the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: So there's no seasonality about it. See, I look at

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Speaker 1: tourism and go we'll hold on summertime tourists. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the job ads are up. Is there anything that.

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Speaker 2: It's a good point make? No, these are seasonally adjusted numbers.

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Speaker 1: Okay, tourism over the summer will that be a thing

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Speaker 1: and therefore we'll see more of this? In other words,

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Speaker 1: can I feel good about these numbers.

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Speaker 2: Well you should feel good, you know, host down and

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Speaker 2: tourism obviously is a really important over the summer. But

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Speaker 2: we've also seen you know, some good progress in other industries.

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Speaker 2: Take it for example, they've had a pretty torrid time

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Speaker 2: over the last couple of years, but they're now up

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Speaker 2: fifteen percent year on year, which is which is really

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Speaker 2: encouraging in a good sign. Equally, you know, areas like

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Speaker 2: construction which also has been hit pretty hard, up almost

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Speaker 2: thirty percent year on year now.

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Speaker 1: Right, So that's the sectors. What about the regionalogy? Are

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Speaker 1: we seeing much variation there generally?

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Speaker 2: So, so if we take the latest month, you know,

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Speaker 2: pretty consistent across the board. There's a couple of standouts.

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Speaker 2: One is, you know the sort of Canterbury Otago Southland

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Speaker 2: area is rarely going well. You know, they're up sort

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Speaker 2: of in the vicinity of twenty percent in terms of

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Speaker 2: job ad volumes year on year, so some really good

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Speaker 2: progress there, you know, good investment down there, with some

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Speaker 2: population growth, AG sectors doing well, Tourism on the rebound.

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Speaker 2: And I guess the other call out is Auckland, after

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Speaker 2: a couple of years of declines, is now sort of

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Speaker 2: looks like it's a little more stable, increased by one

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Speaker 2: percent in the latest month, which is encouraging it.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. The applications being up, what's that tell you?

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Speaker 2: It's still really competitive out there mic for job seekers.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're still seeing record levels of applications relative

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Speaker 2: to the number of opportunities, so it's still pretty tough

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Speaker 2: if you are looking for roles. Unfortunately, we are seeing

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Speaker 2: a bit more activity in kiwis applying for roles in Australia,

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Speaker 2: and that's just not unusual when we have an unemployment

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Speaker 2: rate that's higher than Australia.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you when I notice at the moment students

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Speaker 1: hard work. If you're a student, getting.

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Speaker 2: A job absolutely really tough. You know, personally I can

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Speaker 2: vouch at that as well. And you know, we're seeing

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Speaker 2: a lot of people taking multiple jobs, part time here,

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Speaker 2: part time there, really grinding it out to find some work.

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Speaker 1: Has the good people thing ever waned? I mean, and

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Speaker 1: from personal experience and various bits and pieces of my

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Speaker 1: good people still hard to find, always have been, probably

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Speaker 1: always will be. Is that fair?

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Speaker 2: That's absolutely fair? Always the case. We always talk in averages,

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Speaker 2: of course, and you'll have some roles that there's a

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Speaker 2: plenty of huge number of talent available, but there's always

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Speaker 2: really tough areas which are hard to fill. More specialist roles,

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Speaker 2: fire skilled roles, typically in the sort of medical space engineering,

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Speaker 2: those sorts of sectors.

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Speaker 1: You feel good for twenty six or not.

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Speaker 2: I feel better there, you go all better than with

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Speaker 2: it this time last year.

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Speaker 1: Make yeah, and you're a nice to talk Rob Clark,

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Speaker 1: who's these seek country? I feel better something. We'll take

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Speaker 1: that one week.

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