Job seekers in Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty are in high demand despite traditionally quiet winter months.
The Trade Me Jobs employment survey for April to June showed a 13.2 per cent listings growth for the region compared with the year before.
Head of Trade Me Jobs Peter Osborne said the number of jobs listings nationwide was up 19 per cent for the same period in 2013.
The survey also showed a greater demand for job seekers in the agriculture, fishing and forestry, construction and architecture, manufacturing and operations and trades and services industries.
Recruitment agencies in the region said they were also dealing with higher turnovers of clients compared with previous years despite the winter months typically being slower.
Ian Chitty, managing director of Personnel Resources - Temp Resources, agreed the June/July period was normally much quieter compared with what they were dealing with. He said the Tauranga job market had improved since last year.
Mr Chitty said winter was sometimes the busiest from the employers point of view.
"Winter is traditionally quieter, with not as many people looking for work through this time, but the other side of that is the need for employers over the winter, obviously businesses still need to function and sickness occurs, people get the flu and so on, so employers need people to cover."
Mr Chitty said in any given month the recruitment agency would see about 100 people coming in and seeking work.
He said more Kiwi expats were heading back to New Zealand with fewer workers seeking Australia as a desirable work destination.
Mr Chitty said there was still a need for job seekers in the infrastructure, commercial and trade sectors.
Managing director of 1st Call Recruitment Phill Van Syp said they had been extremely busy and had to hire new staff to cope with growing demand in their Tauranga office.
"We are just getting more and more work in every single day.
"We are just looking at increasing our staff numbers again and we are not even in our busy period yet.
"July and August is normally the quietest patch for recruitment in the Bay but we are struggling to keep up with what we have got.
"We had four people walk into the office from off the street and they all walked out with a job last week."
Mr Van Syp said obviously this depended on the job and the quality of job seekers but they would rarely have a position available for more than a month.
He said the agency would place between 100 and 150 temporary positions a week and 20 to 30 full time positions in its Tauranga office.