Cooking The Books

Each week the NZ Herald's Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's where to start if you're wanting a job change. Hosted by Frances Cook. We all know 2020 was a lot, not least because many of us found our working lives totally changed. It was a split situation, with industries like aviation and tourism hammered, but others like tech, financial services, or deliveries, doing well. The latest overall stats on this are, happily, quite encouraging. New figures from job website Seek show job listings are continuing to bounce back. For the last quarter of last year, job ads were up 19 per cent quarter on quarter. Compared to the same time a year before we're still down a little, but not that much, with a dip of 7 per cent. Healthiest sectors are information and communication technology, manufacturing, transport and logistics, and trades and services.But underneath all of that, other sectors are still struggling. Even if your own situation is doing okay, having so much change all arou