Are times reversing? Eastern Europe is currently showing strong potential for temp workers.
New research from Eurociett and Interconnection Consulting that focused on Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The most significant opportunities occur in the best established countries that have a sound regulatory framework in place e.g. Poland and the Czech Republic.
The recruitment company Hays is predicting an increase in foreign teaching staff in the UK market. It is expected that Canadian, Australian and New Zealand teachers will stil be on the rise in the UK despite changes to immigration legislation.
Vast numbers of recruiters have been airing their concerns that the shortage occupations list (a list of shortage occupations that the UK uses to assess work permit applications for non-EU applicants) will create heavy demand for teachers, especially in London where the sector relies on teachers from Australasia and Canada to satisfy the shortfall.
Europe and Canada have signed a new trade agreement on air services that could create jobs on both sides of the Atlantic.
The European Commission announced the deal last week which will mean that airlines in the EU will operate flights directly to Canada from any airport in Europe.
The agreement comes into force in the first half of 2009 and will boost Europe’s travel recruitment industry by creating new jobs at airports across Europe that do not fly directly to Canada at the moment.
Volkswagen plans to create some 8,500 new jobs worldwide in 2008 after several lean years at the biggest European car maker.
They currently employ about 329,000 worldwide. Of the 8,500 new jobs about 5,500 will primarily go to graduates and apprentices. The remaining positions will go to people currently working for the company on a temporary basis in its new plants.
It has been announced that some 200,000 jobs will promised to british workers for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Some 10% of the workforce will come form the hosting boroughs within London. Outsourced suppliers of the games will be unlikely to make such promise with cheaper costs likely to be achieved in offshore operations.
