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Ireland sees boost in European job seekers as interest in UK wanes

Written by Robert McHugh, on 12th Dec 2017. Posted in Ireland

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Ireland’s popularity among European job seekers has surged, with the country recording a 33.6% increase in its share of searches for jobs in Europe between 2015 and 2017.  The new research, from jobs website Indeed.com shows that Ireland recorded the second largest increase of all countries, behind Luxembourg.

Indeed’s data mirrors the UK’s latest official migration statistics, which show that the number of EU citizens moving to Britain fell by 19% in the 12 months following the Brexit referendum. During the same period, the number of EU citizens leaving Britain rose by 29% to 123,000.
 
The analysis, which highlights where people would like to work and gives a flavour of trends to come, also reveals that Ireland’s booming jobs market – and the waning appeal of Britain’s – prompted a 16.5% fall in the proportion of Irish job seekers hoping to move to Britain.

It’s a similar picture in Poland, a country which already has one million of its citizens living in the UK. Indeed’s researchers found that between 2015 and 2017 the proportion of job seekers in Poland looking for work in Britain fell by 11.4%.
  
Commenting on the research, EMEA economist at Indeed, Mariano Mamertino said, "For much of the past decade, Britain’s dynamic labour market has made it a poster boy for ambitious Europeans keen to progress their careers. Last year’s Brexit vote hasn’t stopped that attractiveness in its tracks, but it is clearly giving many European jobseekers pause for thought. So while the UK is still the most popular destination among Europeans looking to work abroad, its lead is shrinking fast."

He added, "Britain’s loss could be its rivals’ gain – and Ireland, Germany, and France are all attracting a greater share of the interest from upwardly mobile EU citizens. It will be interesting to see if recent political events, suggesting a softening of the UK’s position on Brexit, will stem the decline that’s being seen in the UK’s attractiveness to European job seekers."

Source: www.businessworld.ie

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