Well Placed NZ Employment Intelligence | Published quarterly by Alexander James

The NZ employment report built for the people who hire, place, and build careers in this country.

The New Zealand job market is moving again. But it's not moving the way it used to.

Job ads are up 13.1% year on year. Applications per role have fallen for seven consecutive months. The Employment Relations Amendment Act 2026 has changed the rules for employers, contractors, and senior employees. And AI skills are appearing in job ads at twice the rate of 12 months ago.

Well Placed brings it all together, one quarterly read covering the data, the law, the movement, and what it means for your organisation.

→ NZ's job market by the numbers (April 2026 SEEK data)

→ The hidden cost of slow hiring and what it's costing you right now

→ Retention is the new recruitment, why keeping great people matters more than ever

→ The quiet rise of contractors, how smart businesses are rebuilding

→ AI will reshape roles, not just replace them the skills surge in NZ job ads

→ Employment Relations Amendment Act 2026, the six changes every employer needs to know

Free to download. Published every quarter by the Alexander James team.

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