Discover the latest market trends impacting in-house talent acquisition and human resource professionals across Australia and New Zealand in our 2025 State of Talent Acquisition Report. Plus, access our on-demand webinar exploring the report.
We now issue our ANZ State of Talent Acquisition Report annually, to give you a more in-depth look at key market movements and insights. In this 2025 edition, we’ve taken a close look at the trends that shaped 2024 and what they mean for in-house hiring teams moving into 2025.
When you download our report you’ll also get access to a recording of our recent webinar. Hear from industry experts as they delve into key insights from the report and what they mean for hiring teams.
What’s in the report?
- Performance benchmarks – See how your 2024 performance as an in-house hiring team compares against the rest of the ANZ market
- Market trends – Discover key trends impacting the market throughout 2024, including job growth, candidate application numbers, ways hiring teams are sourcing talent, and more
- Expert analysis – Hear from industry experts on why trends have occurred over the last year, and what TAs should do to make the most of their hiring efforts in 2025
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
Agency state of the market webinar
Revealing never-before-seen insights into how recruitment agencies are faring so far this year across Australia and New Zealand and enabling you to start benchmarking effectively.
Join our review of JobAdder’s exclusive data from the first half of 2024 where we’ll discuss the emerging recruitment trends and what these insights mean for recruiters in the coming months.
This mid-year check-in includes all the data you love, such as job growth, applications per job, proactive sourcing, days to place, and changes in agency fees.
Highlights include:
- The shift between permanent and temporary/contract roles
- The rate of agency growth, quarter by quarter
- Recruiter productivity, including proactive sourcing vs. job posting and days to place
- The next challenge: finding qualified candidates
Martin Herbst
CEO
JobAdder
Chris South
CEO & Founder
Roi Ai
Fiona Chan
Partner & Technical recruiter
Lookahead
Hear from industry experts on the State of Talent Acquisition
Take a deeper dive into the market movements and hiring performance insights shared in our State of Talent Acquisition Report. In this on-demand webinar, industry experts from Australia and New Zealand discuss key themes and insights shared in the report, including how it will impact ANZ hiring teams in 2025.
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.
Watch the ANZ Recruitment trends webinar
Keen to hear what’s happening in the rest of the recruitment world? Check out even more great insights from our ANZ Recruitment trends webinar.
