Your first EURES Job

Your first EURES job is based on support from national employment services – information, job search, recruitment, funding – for both young jobseekers and businesses interested in recruiting from outside their home country. Funding is subject to conditions and procedures put in place by these services.

Who qualifies for support?

Jobseekers who are:

• aged 18-30
• EU nationals
• legally living in an EU country

Employers who are:

• a legally established business in an EU country
• looking for workers with a specific profile they can't find in their home country
• offering minimum 6-month contracts, with pay and conditions compliant with national labour law

What support is available?

Jobseekers

• Job matching and job placement support
• Funding towards the costs of an interview trip and/or of moving abroad to take up a new job
• Training (languages, soft skills)

Employers

• Recruitment support
• Small and medium businesses (companies with up to 250 employees) may apply for financial support to cover part of the cost of training newly-recruited workers and helping them settle in

Placement with European institutions and bodies and other international policy, economic, social and scientific organisations (e.g. United Nations bodies, OECD, Council of Europe, ILO or similar) as well as supra-national regulatory bodies and their agencies is ineligible.

How to participate?
The employment services implementing Your first EURES job as well as the relevant information points in the EU countries are listed below.

If your country does not yet offer these services, you can contact any of the organizations hereunder.

Source Europa.eu

Youth on the Move

Youth on the Move is a comprehensive package of policy initiatives on educationand employment for young people in Europe. Launched in 2010, it is part of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

Goals

1. making education and training more relevant to young people's needs
2. encouraging more of them to take advantage of EU grants to study or train in another country
3. encouraging EU countries to take measures simplifying the transition from education to work.

Methods

1. Coordinating policy to identify and stimulate action at EU and national level;
2. Specific actions designed for young people – such as the preparatory action 'Your first EURES job' for labour market mobility within the EU, and increased support for young entrepreneurs via the European progress microfinance facility.

Why focus on young people?

1. Around 5.5 million young people are unemployed in the EU, which means that 1 in 5 people under 25 who are willing to work cannot find a job.
2. The unemployment rate among young people is over 20% – double the rate for all age groups combined and nearly 3 times the rate for the over-25s.
3. 7.5 million people aged 15 to 24 are currently neither in a job nor in education or training.

Youth on the Move aims to improve young people’s education and employability, to reduce high youth unemployment and to increase the youth-employment rate – in line with the wider EU target of achieving a 75% employment rate for the working-age population (20-64 years) – by

Source Europa.eu

EURES - Links to National Employment Services

Austria

• Employment Service/Arbeitsämter (employment offices)
• Arbeitsmarktservice Tirol
• Employment
• AMS [Austrian Public Employment Service] Skills Barometer (7), Update Info 1/2009, AMS info 133
• Arbeitsmarktservice Burgenland
• Arbeitslosengeld und Notstandshilfe (unemployment benefit and emergency assistance)
• Volksbank

Ostösterreich

• Arbeitsmarktservice Wien
• Arbeitsmarktservice Niederösterreich

Südösterreich

• Arbeitsmarktservice Steiermark
• Arbeitsmarktservice Kärnten

Westösterreich

• Arbeitsmarktservice Oberösterreich
• Arbeitsmarktservice Vorarlberg

Belgium

• ADG - Arbeitsamt der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft (Public employment services)

Région De Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

• www.actiris.be

Vlaams Gewest

• www.vdab.be

Région Wallonne

• www.leforem.be

Bulgaria

• Агенция по заетостта

Croatia

• HZZ - Croatian Employment Service

Cyprus

• Υπουργείο Εργασίας και Κοινωνικών Ασφαλίσεων (Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance)
• Τμήμα Εργασίας [Department of Labour]
• Δημόσιες Υπηρεσίες Απασχόλησης [Public Employment Services]

Czech Republic

• Správa služeb zaměstnanosti

Denmark

• Danish Labour Market Authority (in Danish)
• Workinfo Portal for udenlandsk arbejdskraft og virksomheder oprettet af TIB, 3F og Dansk Byggeri
• Seasonal work – Sæsonarbejde i Danmark
• Jobnet – jobcentrenes tilbud på internettet til alle jobsøgende og arbejdsgivere i hele landet.
• Workindenmark

Estonia

• Eesti Töötukassa (Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund)

Finland

• Employment and Economic Development Office (Työ- ja elinkeinotoimisto)

France

• Pôle Emploi

Germany

• Bundesagentur für Arbeit [Federal Employment Agency]

Greece

• ΟΑΕΔ- Οργανισμός Απασχόλησης Εργατικού Δυναμικού (OAED - Manpower Employment Organisation)

Hungary

• NFSZ (National Employement Service)

Iceland

• Directorate of Labour
• EURES application form

Ireland

• FAS - Training and Employment Authority

Italy

• MLPS - Ministero del lavoro e delle politiche sociali

Latvia

• Nodarbinātības valsts aģentūra (State Employment Agency)
• NVA CV / Vakanču portāls (NVA CV / Vacancies portal)

Liechtenstein

• Amt für Volkswirtshaft, Abt. Arbeitsvermittlung (Public employment service)

Lithuania

• Lietuvos darbo birža (Lithuanian Labour Exchange)

Luxembourg

• ADEM - Administration de l'Emploi

Malta

• Korporazzjoni ghax- Xoghol u t- Tahrig

Netherlands

• UWV WERKbedrijf - Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen

Norway

• NAV - Arbeids- og velferdsetaten (The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration)
• SUA (Service for Foreign Workers in the cities of Oslo, Stavanger and Kirkenes)

Poland

• Publiczne Służby Zatrudnienia (Public Employment Services)
• Centrum Informacyjno-Konsultacyjne Służb Zatrudnienia (Information and Consulation Centre of Employment Services)

Portugal

• Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, I.P. [Institute for Employment and Vocational Training]
• Empresas Trabalho Temporário Regulamentadas(Authorized Temporary Employment Agencies)
• Bolsa de Emprego Público(Public Employment Exchange)

Romania

• ANOFM - Agentia Nationala Pentru Ocuparea Fortei De Munca

Slovakia

• Ústredie práce, sociálnych vecí a rodiny [Central Office for Labour, Social Affairs and Family] Subsidies for self-employed persons

Slovenia

• EURES – create and edit your own CV
• Employment Service of Slovenia

Spain

• Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal [Public State Employment Service]
• Renego – Su buscador de ofertas de empleo
• SISTEMA NACIONAL EMPLEO(NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SYSTEM)

Sweden

• Arbetsförmedlingen (Swedish Employment Service)

Switzerland

• SECO - State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
• Area lavoro(Job Area)

United Kingdom

• Jobcentre Plus

Northern Ireland

• Department for Employment & Learning (DEL) Northern Ireland

Eurojobs.net

Eurojobs.net in an online job board for search and browsing of available vacancies.
They offer:
- Information on available vacancies,
- Information about employers,
- Regular information on new postings through our RSS feeds,
- Simple application procedure for available vacancies (direct links to company sites)
- Recruitment and career counseling/guidance services.