Overview

Job Market Insights and My Job Profile is quarterly releases based on the job vacancies advertised online by popular private recruitment websites. The report contains principal information on job vacancies namely by type of occupation, economic activity, state, skills and field of studies. These statistics must be interpreted with caution due to data limitation as this does not reflect the entire population of job vacancies in Malaysia.

Job Vacancies Advertised Online, Second Quarter of 2023

The number of job vacancies advertised online surged 23.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2023 (Q1 2023: 3.5%) to record 261,231 vacancies (Q1 2023: 211,509). During this quarter, there were 70,571 establishments offered job vacancies, a notable increase from 55,006 establishments reported in the preceding quarter. Further disaggregation by month, most of the job vacancies were posted in May 2023 with 109,262 vacancies. Additionally, there were 103,826 and 48,143 vacancies in June and April 2023, respectively.

Job Vacancies Advertised Online by Occupation

In terms of the distribution of job vacancies by occupation, Professionals accounted the largest share during the quarter with 48.1 per cent or 125,625 vacancies. This was followed by Technicians and Associate Professionals (18.3%), Managers (15.1%) and Service and Sales Workers (6.9%). Consequently, the most in-demand jobs during the quarter were Advertising and Marketing Professionals (20,846), Managing Directors and Chief Executives (12,703), Administrative Associate Professionals (12,284), Accountants and Auditors (10,781) and Software Developers (7,779).

Job Vacancies Advertised Online by Economic Activity

Concerning the analysis of job vacancies by economic activity, it was observed that  Wholesale and Retail Trade dominated the vacancies with 18.2 per cent or 47,597 jobs. Manufacturing recorded a total of 27,429 vacancies (10.5%), followed by Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities at 18,667 vacancies (7.1%) and Financial and Insurance/Takaful Activities with 18,665 vacancies (7.1%).

Job Vacancies Advertised Online by State

Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur continued to record the highest vacancies during the quarter with 59,222 positions (22.7%). Selangor ranked second with a share of 7.8 per cent or 20,438 vacancies. This was followed by Johor which composed 4.4 per cent or 11,436 vacancies. On the contrary, Perlis registered the lowest number of vacancies with 91 advertisements in Q2 2023

The time series of the number of job vacancies advertised online by industry, occupation and      state is shown in Summary Table. The detailed information and interactive data visualisation can be obtained through Job Market Insights (http://www.dosm.gov.my/bda-jmi) and My Job Profile (http://myjobprofile.dosm.gov.my) portal.

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