Half of jobs advertised on EU recruitment site are in UK
30 July 2013
More than half the 1.5m jobs advertised on EURES, a European Commission-managed job portal, are to be found in the UK, it emerges, the week after business minister Matthew Hancock told UK businesses they had a “social duty” to ensure job go to locals.
Tue, 30 Jul 2013More than half the 1.5m jobs advertised on EURES, a European Commission-managed job portal, are to be found in the UK, it emerges, the week after business minister Matthew Hancock told UK businesses they had a “social duty” to ensure job go to locals.
Of the 1,496,974 job vacancies to be found on EURES this morning, 819,855 were UK-based – more than three times as many as the next-biggest advertiser, Germany, with 266,468.
Jobs advertised include permanent and temporary roles across several occupations and industries, from hourly-paid cleaning roles to a project management role based in Coventry with a salary of up to £50,000 – and even the job of chief executive officer for a start-up recruitment agency.
No other country has more than 100,000 jobs open, with Belgium the next-nearest at 78,419. Spain has no jobs listed, and perhaps surprisingly Greece has 3,965 roles –more than several more buoyant economies including Denmark with a mere 196.
When asked on Radio 4’s Today programme last week whether he thought UK businesses should train British workers “at the risk of a little bit of profit”, Hancock responded “Yes, yes I do.”
“I'm arguing that it is companies' social responsibility, it is their social duty, to look at employing locally first.”
The portal has 31,425 registered organisations and 1,115,475 registered jobseekers. It also has “a human network of more than 850 EURES advisers who are in daily contact with jobseeker and employers across Europe”, according to the website itself.
A BBC report in November last year found that between January 2009 and that month, there had been a rise in the number of people signed up to EURES from 60,000 to 300,000.
According to the Daily Telegraph, all positions advertised in UK job centres must be advertised on EURES.
Of the 1,496,974 job vacancies to be found on EURES this morning, 819,855 were UK-based – more than three times as many as the next-biggest advertiser, Germany, with 266,468.
Jobs advertised include permanent and temporary roles across several occupations and industries, from hourly-paid cleaning roles to a project management role based in Coventry with a salary of up to £50,000 – and even the job of chief executive officer for a start-up recruitment agency.
No other country has more than 100,000 jobs open, with Belgium the next-nearest at 78,419. Spain has no jobs listed, and perhaps surprisingly Greece has 3,965 roles –more than several more buoyant economies including Denmark with a mere 196.
When asked on Radio 4’s Today programme last week whether he thought UK businesses should train British workers “at the risk of a little bit of profit”, Hancock responded “Yes, yes I do.”
“I'm arguing that it is companies' social responsibility, it is their social duty, to look at employing locally first.”
The portal has 31,425 registered organisations and 1,115,475 registered jobseekers. It also has “a human network of more than 850 EURES advisers who are in daily contact with jobseeker and employers across Europe”, according to the website itself.
A BBC report in November last year found that between January 2009 and that month, there had been a rise in the number of people signed up to EURES from 60,000 to 300,000.
According to the Daily Telegraph, all positions advertised in UK job centres must be advertised on EURES.
