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2025 Holiday Job Market: Competition Soars Amid Weak Hiring

10/17/2025

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Story summary

The 2025 holiday job market is highly competitive, with seasonal searches up 27% year over year and 50% from 2023.
Seasonal job postings rose only 2.7%, underscoring a supply-demand mismatch.
Only 2% of postings are urgently hiring, down from 10% in 2021.
Retail remains the dominant seasonal sector, with hiring weak and applicants advised to apply early.

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Story summary

The 2025 holiday job market is highly competitive, with seasonal searches up 27% year over year and 50% from 2023.
Seasonal job postings rose only 2.7%, underscoring a supply-demand mismatch.
Only 2% of postings are urgently hiring, down from 10% in 2021.
Retail remains the dominant seasonal sector, with hiring weak and applicants advised to apply early.