EURES News

Flexible working is growing in popularity in the Netherlands, offering young jobseekers a foot in the labour market and reducing the risk for employers.

Nineteen-year-old Nerea Gomis Sanchez from Spain is relishing the challenge of working in the care sector in Kassel, central Germany.

The ongoing economic recovery in the EU has led to improved labour market conditions for young Europeans. The Youth Guarantee scheme is doing its part by increasing employment opportunities.

The EU has seen high levels of youth unemployment since the onset of the financial crisis. However, some countries have felt the effects more than others, and Germany is one country where youth unemployment has actually fallen in the period since the crisis.

The EU job mobility programme Your first EURES job (YfEj) helped one young woman make the transition from temporary work in Italy to a full-time career in customer service in Bulgaria.

The EU’s Single Market is the largest trade zone in the world, offering unique possibilities not only to companies to expand their businesses, but also to entrepreneurs and employees from different countries to meet and learn from each other.

The EURES portal gives companies access to over 350,000 registered CVs, and now searching through them to find the best candidate has never been easier.

Marriott International is one of the world’s premier hospitality companies, with a chain of more than 6,000 hotels in over 122 countries. With such a diverse customer base, there’s a real demand for multilingual employees and the Marriott is always on the lookout for talented new staff.

Plenty of surveys will tell you who the biggest companies are, or who has the most employees. But for jobseekers, size isn’t everything. The “best” employers are those who give employees what they want.