State of the Market 2025: ANZ talent acquisition

Join our 2025 ANZ State of the Market webinar, where we’ll delve into key insights, critical shifts, and golden opportunities for talent acquisition professionals across Australia and New Zealand.

Thursday February 27, 11am AEDT | 1pm NZDT

Key highlights

-1.7%

Job creation down across Australia

Compared to this time last year

-7%

Placements down made by in-house teams

Compared to this time last year

+59%

Increase on applications

Compared to this time last year

5%

Of roles hired by proactive sources

Hire with confidence in 2025

Our most popular report is back and it’s bigger than ever! Now issued annually, the State of Talent Acquisition Report provides a comprehensive view of key market movements and recruitment performance insights. Don’t miss your opportunity to hear directly from the experts as they unpack the latest data and what this means for your team heading into 2025, including:

Job growth and volume
Temp vs. perm – which is winning?
Candidate volumes and applications per job
Recruiter productivity

Join us on Thursday February 27, 11am AEDT | 1pm NZDT

Contributors

Matt Woodard

Founder

scalr

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Introducing Matt Woodard, an accomplished Talent Acquisition professional with over 16 years of TA experience, across New Zealand and Australia. With a strong focus on helping start-ups and scale-ups achieve

success, Matt has become a trusted advisor in the industry.

Recently, Matt embarked on a new venture by launching scalr, a platform designed to support companies on their growth journey.

Hannah Mundell

Senior Recruitment Business Partner

Kiwibank

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Hannah is a seasoned recruitment leader with over 14 years of experience spanning New Zealand and the USA.

A passionate advocate for candidate experience and DE&I, Hannah has been recognised for her contributions to the industry, including winning the SEEK SARA Recruitment Professional of the Year Award and the HRINZ Christian Dahmen Memorial Innovation Award. With deep expertise in talent acquisition, governance, and HR strategy, she brings a data-driven and people-centric approach to navigating the evolving talent market in Aotearoa.

Martin Herbst

CEO

JobAdder

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Martin is the CEO of JobAdder, with over 20 years experience launching and scaling tech businesses across the globe.

Adept in fostering customer-centric cultures, Martin’s vision for JobAdder is to provide a recruitment platform centred on design-led usability, enhanced by e-learning and support and augmented by the transformative power of AI, thus fulfilling the company’s purpose to make recruitment more efficient and joyful for everyone.