Don’t Apply For Jobs — Australia Has No Jobs Left | Aussies Are Losing Hope Of Finding Work

Añadido: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Breaking. Australia's job market just did something it hasn't done in years, and most people have missed it. The unemployment has climbed to 4.5%.

[00:00:09]>> Why is it so hard to find a job in Australia? Like, they were not kidding about the job recession.

[00:00:15]>> Yo, is it just me or is Melbourne's job market really, really [ __ ] Because I swear I've applied for like 100 jobs.

[00:00:26]1,052 candidates applied for this role.

[00:00:30]>> Guys, I currently have a marketing job in Australia and I was just having a little look at the marketing jobs available in the UK. The only thing putting me off going back there is a salary.

[00:00:41]I went around driving place to place trying to find a job. I just walked in there. I was like, "Hey, you guys hiring?" I got two leads and one of them, the lady said that it took her a year to find a job.

[00:00:55]Right now, in a country that sells itself as the lucky nation, hundreds of thousands of Australians are waking up every single morning with nowhere to go.

[00:01:04]No job, no shifts, no call back. And the numbers do not lie. Unemployment just hit 4.5%, the highest it has been in nearly 4 years. Nearly 700,000 Australians are officially out of work.

[00:01:18]And that is the official number. That is the cleaned up, government approved, politically convenient number. The real picture is so much worse because hiding underneath that headline figure is something they really do not want you to focus on. Umployment. 1.5 million Australians who technically have a job but cannot get enough hours to pay their bills. Think about that. Over 2 million people in this country are either unemployed or desperate for more work.

[00:01:45]And they are being told the economy is fine. They are being told things are recovering. Meanwhile, they are choosing between groceries and rent. Meanwhile, they are watching their savings drain to nothing. And the people telling them everything is fine have never missed a mortgage payment in their lives.

[00:02:01]Breaking. Australia's job market just did something it hasn't done in years, and most people have missed it. The unemployment has climbed to 4.5%.

[00:02:10]It's not a crash, but it's a clear shift. Jobs are starting to disappear at the margins. full-time employment is slipping and the labor market is finally calling after years of extreme tightness. So, here's the tension. The economy is slowing. There's no doubt.

[00:02:26]But inflation isn't fully dead. So, the Reserve Bank is stuck in the middle.

[00:02:33]Keep rates high and risk slowing the economy too much or cut too early and inflation comes flying back. And none of us want that. Australia isn't breaking yet, but it's moving from strength to slowdown, and the next art prince will decide which direction wins. Thanks for tuning in. It's Daniel at FFN. Talk soon. If you can't get a job interview in today's job market, why do you think that is? Yes, it's incredibly tough out there. Our unemployment rate just went up to 4.5%. And comparatively, even though that is low, it's creeping up.

[00:03:07]And we've got AI, then we've got offshoring. So there are less jobs to apply for mainly in corporate Australia.

[00:03:13]You're not getting interviews. Number one, stop playing the blame game. Yes, it's tough, but we're still helping people get jobs in this market. Number two, are you reading the job ad? Do you have the experience required? Number three, if you do have the experience required and you're not getting any call backs, it's most likely your resume.

[00:03:31]Number three, if you don't have the experience, what are you doing to get that experience? or if you're in an industry that has hardly any jobs, maybe it's time for a career change.

[00:03:42]>> Hey, legend. I went to a tech bro startup conference so you don't have to.

[00:03:46]And there was two things that really like I've been thinking about every day since that have just been freaking me out. One of them is that Australia is one of the most specialized job markets in the world. We have lots of jobs that require professional skills. And why that's concerning is because these are going to be some of the first to go or a lot of these are going to be the first to go with how good AI is getting at automating things. So we have a lot of the Australian workforce who's very vulnerable to losing their jobs to AI. I don't think we really realize just how how concerning this is. you know, for anyone that doesn't have a, you know, practical hands-on job like a tradey, there's going to be a lot and a lot of unemployment that's going to come from AI. Uh, and the second one, I need a part two.

[00:04:41]>> After grad, I applied to 2,517,936 jobs. The job market is actually [ __ ] Of that, I got ghosted by around 1 million and then rejected by 200,000.

[00:04:55]200,000. Are you kidding me? That's literally the population of like India.

[00:04:59]Guys, my resume isn't even that chopped.

[00:05:01]I have work experience. I have a double degree. Now, out of the 2.5 million jobs that I applied to, I only made it to the first round for 5,555 of them, which is crazy. But shout out to Sideshift because some of these aren't even your typical 9 to5 jobs.

[00:05:16]Thank god for Sideshift because I was able to find way more jobs on there that are contractual gigs that are really easy to apply to and you can actually find a job on there. Now, out of the 5,555 first interviews, I only got 360 second round interviews and then an even bigger cut for the third round and then the fourth. But then guess how many final rounds I ended up with? Four. And out of the 2.5 million jobs, just to remind you again, how many offers did I get?

[00:05:45]Two. Tell me how I only ended up with two offers. And then, yep, obviously I accepted the one with seven figures plus unlimited PTO. Why is it so hard to find a job in Australia? Like, they were not kidding about the job recession. Mind you, I have a double degree from one of Australia's top universities and three internships. Like, especially in Australia, it's not what you know, it's who you know. And if your dad isn't friends with some CEO of some company, then you're cooked. Like, guys, I'm literally getting rejected from McDonald's, which I wasn't even applying to. Seriously. The only thing that is keeping me sane right now is training for my marathon and doing freelance gigs on Sideshift. Like if I wasn't doing UGC content creation, I would be making zero money and living on the streets right now. So, thank you, Sideshift. And if you're struggling like me, you should definitely go check it out. Or if you even just want a side hustle. Yo, is it just me or is Melbourne's job market really, really [ __ ] Because I swear I've applied for like a 100 jobs that I think I'm pretty qualified for and no one's even responded back. I mean, they have responded back. They responded back with like a general email, right? I'm at a I'm at one of my works um break rooms having dinner. Uh and we got like new songs to be made. We got like new music videos. I'm doing like artist um planning for someone else. It's It's crazy, man.

[00:07:09]I love it.

[00:07:10]>> I know you're on the verge of rage quitting your job, but let me just stop you for a second. Just hear me out. So me and 200 other people applied for this job. Now I'm one of the lucky five people who got a call back. So I just had a phone screening and I've just found out that this is a five-stage interview process. So I've just passed the first round of the phone screening which means I then get to have a interview. And if I pass this interview then I get to do a case study. And if they like my ideas um and all the work that I put into that case study. So the free work I then get to meet the team in person and then if the team like me then I get to do some psychometric testing which just takes a couple of hours to do online and then if I pass that they have to prefer me over their two internal candidates who are also going for this job and then I might get an offer. I went around driving place to place trying to find a job. I I just walked in there. I was like, "Hey, you guys hiring?" I got two leads. And one of them, the lady said that it took her a year to find a job.

[00:08:23]A year to work at a grocery store.

[00:08:31]A year.

[00:08:35]Australia's central bank has been hiking interest rates to fight inflation. And guess what? It's been doing its job. and maybe a little too well. Businesses are cutting back, hiring is slowing, and jobs are disappearing. Australia's unemployment rate just jumped to 4 1/2%.

[00:08:50]That's the highest level since late 2021, according to figures from the ABS released last week. This is what economists call the lag effect of interest rate hikes. You raise rates today and businesses start to feel it 6 to 12 months later. For everyday Australians, this is very real. Variable mortgage holders are already squeezed.

[00:09:09]Now their job security is also wobbly.

[00:09:11]The RBA will now be caught between a rock and a hard place when it meets next month. Keep hiking and risk a real jobs crisis or pause and risk inflation increasing.

[00:09:23]>> Nobody told you that when you graduated uni after spending 3 years on a degree in marketing that it would be so difficult to find the job. Like it's insane. I went for a job interview the other day and the lady told me that there were 400 applicants for one role.

[00:09:41]I've been looking for a job in marketing for the past six months and I've gotten interviews. I've gotten through to the last round and nothing. So, I need some advice. I'm like, do I just go traveling in 4 months in September, go to Asia for a couple months and then just come back next year and keep looking or should I just like keep looking for work and getting debilitated and rejected? Like I honestly I I don't know how much I can take of this [ __ ] Like it's actually so debilitating. Oh, and I forgot to add, I have experience. Like, I've been working in the field for like 3 years. 1,052 candidates applied for this role. You're telling me that there are over 1,000 applications for this single job? This is your sign to not hesitate when applying for jobs because I waited a week, literally 7 days, and now this has happened.

[00:10:39]>> Here is something they buried in the data and hoped you would not notice.

[00:10:43]Australia added jobs on paper, but full-time work collapsed. In one month alone, full-time employment dropped by over 38,000 positions. What replaced it?

[00:10:54]Part-time, casual, gig work. The kind of work where you have no sick leave, no job security, and no idea if you're working next week. Right now, 2.4 million Australians are classified as casual employees. That is 19% of the entire workforce. And in hospitality, the sector that disproportionately employs young Australians, the casual rate is 58%.

[00:11:19]These are not people choosing flexibility. These are people trapped.

[00:11:24]Young Australians are sending out hundreds of job applications and hearing nothing back. The youth unemployment rate hit 9.8%.

[00:11:33]More than double the national average.

[00:11:35]Over 1 million young Australians are facing serious employment challenges right now. And here is the part that should make your blood boil.

[00:11:45]68% of Australian workers say they are worried about being made redundant. Not a fringe group, not the pessimists. 68%.

[00:11:54]That is the majority of the working population quietly terrified that their job is next. Now let us talk about the industries getting absolutely gutted. In 2025, Australia recorded 268,000 retrenchments. That is the highest number since the pandemic rebound and a 12% jump in redundancies compared to the year before.

[00:12:17]Technology workers are being cut as companies pivot to AI. Retail workers are being wiped out as stores close.

[00:12:24]Construction apprenticeship commencements dropped 22% in a single year. Manufacturing is contracting.

[00:12:31]Mining towns are being shut down. The Alcoa Alumina refinery near Perth closed permanently, taking over 700 direct jobs with it. Hundreds of coal workers at Tamore Collery were stood down with reduced pay. And this is not just happening in one industry or one corner of the country. Distribution, production, hospitality, tourism, and even health and education are now reporting elevated redundancy intentions.

[00:12:58]Let that sink in. health and education, the sectors Australians thought were bulletproof. Now, even 26% of those employers are planning cuts. And while real wages actually fell in 2025 when adjusted for inflation, with the average worker taking what economists called a significant real pay cut, corporations posted profits. The math is not complicated. They are making more. You are getting less. If you have been watching this channel for a while, you already know what we say. Share this video. The algorithm buries content like this because it makes the wrong people uncomfortable.

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[00:13:45]Now, back to it because we need to talk about what the Reserve Bank of Australia just admitted. Under its own baseline projections, unemployment is expected to keep climbing to 4.7% by mid 2028.

[00:13:59]That is not a catastrophe scenario. That is their best case. Their comfortable forecast. And if global conditions deteriorate, if oil prices spike from Middle East tensions, if the trade environment gets uglier, that number moves higher. The people setting interest rate policy have already accepted more Australians will lose their jobs. They built it into the model. They signed off on it. And the workers who get displaced from coal, from traditional industries, from any high emission sector, face an earnings loss of 29% over 6 years. Not a temporary dip, not a rough patch, a decade long financial wound for the crime of working in the wrong industry at the wrong time. So what does this all add up to? Australia is being quietly hollowed out. The jobs that existed a generation ago, the stable, full-time, permanent, dignified work that let a single income buy a house and raise a family are disappearing.

[00:14:59]What is replacing them is casual contracts, gig apps, and zero hour uncertainty.

[00:15:04]Young Australians are being told to retrain, to upskill, to be entrepreneurial, to be flexible, while the system they are supposed to be flexible within is actively designed to keep them precarious.

[00:15:16]27% of Australian employers were still planning further cuts heading into 2026.

[00:15:22]Redundancy is no longer a last resort.

[00:15:25]It is a regular business strategy and the workers bear every single cost while the executives who sign the termination letters collect their bonuses. Australia likes to call itself the lucky country, but luck ran out for a lot of people a long time ago. And until this country decides that stable work, real wages, and economic dignity are non-negotiable, this crisis is going to keep getting worse. They will keep adjusting the forecasts upward and Australians will keep paying the