Rise of 11% in job vacancies ‘encouraging’

There was an 11% increase in the level of available jobs around the country in August but a similar level of decline in the number of people actually looking for work.

The latest edition of the monthly Irish Employment Monitor, from recruitment consultancy, Morgan McKinley shows an 11% monthly increase in job vacancy levelsand a 9% year-on-year rise in August.

However, the new figures also show an 11% drop in the numbers of professional job seekers entering the market — from 9,240 in July to 8,230 last month. On an annualised basis, that drop was 26%.