More people are competing for work for fewer opportunities as the unemployment rate's expected to keep rising.
The unemployment rate is at 4.3 % in the March quarter, the highest it's been in three years.
Business advisor and Pivot & Pace co-founder Kendall Langston told Mike Hosking that the difference between recent years and now is night and day.
He says this time last year you'd be getting a handful of suitable applicants, but in the last couple of weeks there can be well over 60 quality applications for a role.
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