Record Jobseeker Numbers Continue, Driven By Auck.

Media Release
1 October 2009

Record Jobseeker Numbers Continue, Job Growth Driven By Auckland

New results from Nielsen reveal that for the fourth month in a row record numbers of Kiwi jobseekers have headed to New Zealand’s number one job site, SEEK.co.nz. Strong jobseeker activity has resulted in close to 900,000 unique visitors* heading to the site in September, 5% up on August and 60% up year, on year.

On SEEK there are more jobs than anywhere else in New Zealand and this continues to stimulate strong jobseeker demand. With more than 10,000 jobs available at any one time, over 630,000 unique visitors went to SEEK.co.nz in September that did not visit the next largest job site.

After a number of months of stabilisation across job volumes in New Zealand, SEEK data for September showed early signs of a lift in job opportunities. Across the country job volumes were up 4% in September with the majority of the growth coming from Auckland which was 8% compared to August. Industries showing larger uplifts of job volumes were:

• Hospitality & Tourism, + 26%
• Retail & Consumer Products, + 25%
• Construction, + 23%
• Administration, + 10%
• Healthcare & Medical, + 7%

SEEK New Zealand General Manager Annemarie Duff said “It is great to see ad volume growth in a number of key sectors. While the results are encouraging we remain cautiously optimistic and will continue to watch the market closely as hopefully a number economic indicators will continue to improve”

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About SEEK

SEEK Limited is the leading online employment and training site in New Zealand. SEEK is a media company using the Internet as its distribution channel. SEEK (NZ) Ltd manages seek.co.nz, New Zealand's largest employment website and one of the best known Internet brands. At any one time over 10,000 employment vacancies are advertised on SEEK in New Zealand and over 850,000 unique visitors are drawn to the website each month.

Sources:
- Nielsen//NetRatings, Total, September 2009-10-01
- SEEK month on month job ad data, September 2009

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