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Speaker 1: Back here on Earth. Seek has released their employment report

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Speaker 1: from December. Job ads down two percent, number of people

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Speaker 1: applying for jobs down two percent. Rob Clark's seat Country Manager.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Rob, It's good to have you on the show.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the numbers and how consumed we should

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Speaker 1: be about them. Is in December, wouldn't it be typically

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Speaker 1: a bad month for job ads being listed?

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Speaker 2: Anyway, it is a slower period, but it's secondly adjusted.

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Speaker 2: So what we saw in December was a two percent decline,

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Speaker 2: which all set the games that we saw in November,

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Speaker 2: which was a two percent increase. So we're really pretty

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Speaker 2: volatile at the moment.

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Speaker 1: The annual drop was twenty two percent, Right, has that

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Speaker 1: been slowing or you know, have you seen a trend

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Speaker 1: in the longer.

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Speaker 2: Term a little bit? So since June we've seen our

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Speaker 2: job ad volumes declined by just one percent, but certainly

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Speaker 2: at the start of twenty twenty four we saw pretty

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Speaker 2: significant fall. So we sort of feel like we're hit

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Speaker 2: the bottom and we're dancing along it, but we're not

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Speaker 2: seeing a ton of green shoots.

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Speaker 1: Just at the moment, where are you better off being

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand if you're looking for a job at

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Speaker 1: the moment, and the centers and the rurally whereabouts.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, most of the jobs are always in the centers.

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Speaker 2: But when we look at the performance of you know,

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Speaker 2: sort of the regions versus the main urban centers, we're

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Speaker 2: certainly seeing some of the smaller regions perform very well.

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Speaker 2: So let's take Otago that's performed really well in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four only down eight percent, versus let's say Auckland

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Speaker 2: twenty five percent and Taranaki has performed extremely well. So

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Speaker 2: they were pretty much flat throughout twenty twenty four. The

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Speaker 2: main centers in December, for example, Wellington, Canterbury, Auckland down

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Speaker 2: between three and five percent.

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Speaker 1: Any industry is showing signs of growth that you want

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Speaker 1: to mention.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, banking and finance have had a good run recently,

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Speaker 2: but unfortunately, you know, the declinent are pretty much across

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Speaker 2: the board. Of course, you'll get certain roles that are

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Speaker 2: in high demand, you know, some of the specialist areas

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Speaker 2: and engineering, you know, cybersecurity and some of those types

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Speaker 2: of roles, but the broad rolls across let's say trades

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Speaker 2: and services, office and admin, advertising media found it pretty

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Speaker 2: tough in the last wee, while.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like and just finally the fact that

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Speaker 1: we've got you know, a number of people applying for

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Speaker 1: jobs also down, does that kind of offset things?

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Speaker 2: Not really? I mean the real story there is the

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Speaker 2: number of applications is record high's relative to the number

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Speaker 2: of jobs available. So what that means is for job

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Speaker 2: seekers it's really competitive. You know a lot of employers

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Speaker 2: that are spoiled for choice at the moment in terms of,

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Speaker 2: you know, who they can pick because the number of

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Speaker 2: applicants is just so high. So it's really important for

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Speaker 2: job seekers to make sure they put the best foot forward.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Rob, Rob Clark seek country manager with

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Speaker 1: the latest numbers from December on a job. For more

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