Job openings and recruitment needs

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Upcoming publishing: 2025-11-27

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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Fewer job openings

2025-08-29

In the second quarter of 2025, the number of job openings decreased by 13 percent compared to the same quarter last year. There were 147 500 job openings in total on the labour market. Of these, 113 800 were advertised while 33 700 were job openings where the employer tried to recruit in other ways.

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