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Why is the jobs market considered strong despite full employment?
The Claire Byrne Show on News Talk. With Aviva Insurance.
We had news this week that TikTok is potentially cutting more roles and it got us thinking about the jobs market because the country is at full employment, but many of those who are entering the workforce or even those who are trying to change jobs might be finding it a little bit tricky for a couple of reasons, which we're going to find out about now. I'm joined by Peter Cosgrove, Managing Director of Careers Portal. Hello, Peter. Hi,
Claire.
You spent the week talking to to people who are coming out of education, have you? And finding out what they see happening in the jobs market. What are they saying to you?
Three days at higher options finishes today, so you have all the six years going around working out do they want to go to college, do an apprenticeship. But uh there's a lot more questions as will these jobs be around in ten years' time than we would have ever got ten years ago.
That's the thing. And people are looking at the job that they think they might like and they're making an assumption that AI is going to fill that gap and they're maybe turning elsewhere.
Yeah. And there's also a real gap between the parents and the kids. Parents probably don't understand it almost as well as the kids do now. So parents are going, Oh, don't be fine, there'll always be jobs in this and actually there may be some jobs, but they may change quite dramatically.
So in general, how is the jobs market at the moment?
Jobs market is still very strong. As you said, we're almost at full employment.
How are AI and automation creating redeployment challenges for workers?
But the problem is this redeployment of jobs is a real challenge for people a lot of the time who've worked in the same job or company for a long time because they haven't actually built any new skills. So they're very good at doing a job. But if that job starts to be, you know, eroded by AI, they don't immediately have another job to go to. And that's where the kind of TikTok role came over. We're deploying. But actually what happened was, you know, AI had kind of was learning from from the people about how to do the job and then they said, Right, we don't need the people anymore. AI can do the job. Mm-hmm. They call it redeployment, but we're not always clear are the all the employees being redeployed or are they bringing in other employees instead of those employees?
And that's the challenge for everybody and that's the worry.
Okay. So are you saying that for some people who are in that situation where their jobs might be done by a machine, that they don't have the skills to move to something else?
It possibly. And I think what we firstly have to realize is efficiency is no longer exciting as an employee. AI can do efficiency about a million times better than us. You need to be saying efficiency will probably be done in a lot of time by AI. I need to be working out what are the skills I can do better better than anyone else. We all know we can have chatbots instead of a human, but we also know a human gives a much better experience. But you better be giving a great experience, you better have enthusiasm, motivation, great customer service, and then you won't be growing
What skills should employees develop to stay ahead of AI efficiency?
placed. If you're pretty poor at the job, they'll probably get an average chatbot to do that for you. So you have to start looking up about your job. And I'm not sure the employer is always going to be the one helping you. Like online, there's a million kind of training sessions you can be doing yourself. And I think the key th thing for anyone out there is you have to always be upskilling now because we don't know where we're going to be in five years' time. But you can have the comfort that, oh you know, I'll just sit this out for the next 15 years. I'm not sure that's possible. I'm not sure.
So you've got to take it on as an individual, this upskilling it and do it yourself.
Two things. One, um, don't always be thinking about moving up in a job, move across. You might you mightn't always just be going up and up and up, but going across is just as good. Be by going across, let's say, from a sales role to a marketing role, you're having to learn a new skill set.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why is the jobs market considered strong despite full employment?
0:01–1:16
2
How are AI and automation creating redeployment challenges for workers?
1:16–2:27
3
What skills should employees develop to stay ahead of AI efficiency?
2:27–3:25
4
Why is continuous up‑skilling essential for future career security?
3:25–4:32
5
How can moving laterally across roles boost your employability?
4:32–5:45
6
Which human‑focused abilities can’t be replaced by AI?
5:45–6:44
7
What emerging sectors offer safe career paths in a changing economy?
6:44–7:39