Job listings for marketing, comms, advertising and media decline by over 60%
The marketing and communications, and advertising, arts and media industries have been two of the hardest hit sectors by Australia’s economic downturn.
Job listings for ‘marketing and communications’ were down 60.9% in April compared to March, while ‘advertising, arts and media’, was down 60.5%. The industries were only outdone by ‘human resources and recruitment’ (-69.1%), legal (-67.3%), ‘administration and office support’ (-64.2%), ‘sport and recreation’ (-63%), ‘consulting and strategy’ (-61.7%), and sales (-61.4%).
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The new data comes from job listings site Seek, which showed job listings for April were down 65.6% across the board compared to April 2019, and 49.9% compared to March.
I’m surprised listings aren’t down more than that. most briefs from mid March are either cancelled or on hold and there have been very few new opportunities created over the past two months
most agencies and other industry companies are now as lean as they can be and as the country and the business world emerges from the shutdown over the next few months, there’ll be an increase in demand for talent. most likely it’ll be predominantly contract, freelance and consulting roles first, until companies are confident enough to start adding FTEs, so it’s important to be flexible and realistic about expectations and also not to panic too much in the meantime – things will pick up again.
The only reason listings aren’t down further is because the industry was down by double digits in NSW and Vic for the 18 months leading up to this event.
Poop –> Fan
Let’s also not forget that the communication levels of recruitment agencies have dropped through the floor. Not answering calls, neglecting messages – all round it’s a terrible reflection on this industry
It’s disheartening to see a number of comrades in this industry who’ve lost their jobs not get a look in for roles they’d be great at.
Hearing of senior very capable people who are getting treated poorly by inexperienced recruiters. It really is sad that an intermediary who has their own interests in impeding the employment of capable individuals.
This article is about March 20 vs April 20
March 2020 vs March 2019 for Advertising was already down 56.1%.
This is a further 60.5% decrease on what was already an abysmal March.
In a nutshell, job ads for advertising sector in April 2020 is 17.3% of job ads in the sector March 2019.
Depressing