27 Jun 2025

Job market sluggish, jobseekers facing huge competition

From Checkpoint, 4:37 pm on 27 June 2025

Economists having been telling us survive til 2025', but so far this year things don't seem to have improved that much, particularly for those out of work. The job market is sluggish, with people looking for jobs facing a huge amount of competition. At last count the unemployment rate was 5.1% or 156,000 people at the March quarter. Money correspondent Susan Edmunds spoke to Lisa Owen.