Job seekers’ confidence in finding or keeping a job now stands at +15 on a scale from -100 to +100, based on responses from 494,453 professionals surveyed between April 1, 2020, and Feb. 7, 2025.
Confidence levels were at +9 in April 2020 and +17 in July 2020. The highest recorded confidence was +40 in April 2022, but it has since declined.
Additionally, more than half of active job seekers have been searching for six months or longer, the survey found.