Job openings and recruitment needs

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Statistics Sweden and the Swedish Public Employment Service are currently developing a new survey which will replace the surveys Job openings and unmet labour demand, Labour market tendency survey and the Labour market outlook survey. The new survey, Job openings and recruitment needs, will report statistics on job openings, recruitment problems and skills needs, the latter for a selection of occupations.

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Reduced recruitment    activity in the labour market

2025-11-27

In the third quarter, the number of job openings decreased while the share of employers that had recruited was lower compared to the same period last year. This is reported in the Job Vacancies and Recruitment Needs survey, which describes labour demand in the Swedish labour market in terms of job openings and employers’ recruitment experiences.

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