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Seek country manager Rob Clark says ad numbers are still around historical highs.

Seek says there was a little improvement in the job market in April, but it's still easier to be hiring than applying, and conflict in the Middle East has thrown a "spanner in the works".

The recruitment site said job ads were up 0.8 percent month-on-month and 13.1 percent year-on-year, and applications per ad were down 1.6 percent.

Seek country manager Rob Clark said ad numbers were still around historical highs.