Jobs Index

Job market continues to rebalance against backdrop of near full employment

Reading Time: 3 minutes The latest IrishJobs Jobs Index for the third quarter indicates the job market continues to rebalance against a backdrop of near full employment. The decline in job vacancies from last year’s high continues this quarter. However, the level of job vacancies in the economy remains healthy, with 22 of the sectors examined remaining above pre-Covid Q3 2019 levels.

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A more settled job market

Reading Time: 3 minutes The latest IrishJobs Jobs Index reveals a more settled job market, with job vacancies across most sectors appearing robust and in a period of normalisation as they experience little to no change in vacancy levels on a quarterly basis, although a tightening is evident in the Banking, IT, Science and Travel sectors.

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Competitive recruitment landscape set to continue in 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes The latest IrishJobs quarterly Jobs Index reveals a strong but cooling jobs market as the number of vacancies eased on a yearly and quarterly basis. However, the volume of job vacancies generated in Q4 was still almost a third higher than pre-Covid levels meaning the competitive recruitment landscape is set to continue in the year ahead.

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Jobs level out as caution enters the recruitment market

Reading Time: 3 minutes The latest IrishJobs Jobs Index highlights a continued stabilisation in the number of job vacancies available across the country. The results indicate that the trend towards stabilisation in the jobs market first identified at the start of the year, is continuing, with the number of jobs available across the country levelling out compared to the year-on-year growth experienced last quarter.

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Signs of stabilisation in jobs market

Reading Time: 3 minutes With the lifting of all public health restrictions earlier this year, the first Jobs Index of 2022 suggests some stabilisation in the market with the number of job vacancies levelling out compared to the high year-on-year growth we saw last quarter. Of the 30 sectors analysed, 22 posted year-on-year increases in job vacancy creation in the first three months of 2022.

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Employers prepare for talent war in 2022 as Talent Acquisition and HR roles rise by 420%

Reading Time: 4 minutes Job vacancies across Talent Acquisition and Human Resources saw an unprecedented 420% year-on-year increase in Q4 2021, according to the latest IrishJobs Jobs Index. “2021 was a particularly busy year for recruitment and we anticipate this trend will continue in 2022,” said Orla Moran, General Manager of IrishJobs.

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