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This page deals with career questions pertaining to working in Europe. Click on the title of the question to see the ANSWER and the relevant EU network(s) dealing with the issue at hand.
If you are searching for a job in one of the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland you came to the right place.
The EURES network will provide you the solutions you need to work and move abroad, before, during, and after your job search. A comprehensive range of services is available to address every aspect of living and working abroad. Most of these services are free of charge.
These include career guidance and support with your CV. In addition, assistance is provided to help you find the best job offers that match your skills. Videoconferencing for interviews can be also facilitated. Unique transnational job fairs online are also organised, and they can offer guidance on training, language learning and funding opportunities – to name just a few! On EURES, you can get all of the information about the European labour market, along with legal and social security advice.
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The Europass CV is one of the best-known CV formats in Europe. It is easy-to-use and familiar to employers and education institutions.
You will first have to create your Europass profile with information on your education, training, work experience and skills. After you complete your Europass profile, you can create as many CVs as you want with just a few clicks. Just select which information you want to include, pick your favourite design and Europass will do the rest.
You can create, store and share CVs in more than 30 languages.
Europass will guide you step by step through the process to help you create a good cover letter with all the essential information. You can create, store and share cover letters in more than 30 languages, choose from different templates to customise your application and share them easily from your Europass Library.
A cover letter should highlight your motivation to apply for a specific job or opportunity, and demonstrate why you consider yourself to be the best candidate. Your cover letter should refer to particular examples in your CV and describe why these are relevant for the job vacancy you are applying for.
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The Jobs and skill trends tool will support you in finding helpful information about the demand of specific occupations and skills across EU countries. You can look for the top occupations in a specific country and for a specific occupation and its most relevant skills.
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ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) is the European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences and Occupations.
ESCO works as a dictionary, describing, identifying and classifying professional occupations and skills relevant for the EU labour market and education and training. Those concepts and the relationships between them can be understood by electronic systems, which allows different online platforms to use ESCO for services like matching jobseekers to jobs on the basis of their skills, suggesting trainings to people who want to reskill or upskill etc.
ESCO provides descriptions of more than 3,000 occupations and 13,000 skills linked to these occupations, translated into 28 languages (all official EU languages plus Icelandic, Norwegian, Ukrainian, and Arabic).
The aim of ESCO is to support job mobility across Europe and therefore a more integrated and efficient labour market, by offering a “common language” on occupations and skills that can be used by different stakeholders on employment and education and training topics.
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Interested in future labour market and employment trends in Europe?
Cedefop’s Skills Forecast provides quantitative projections of how employment is expected to evolve across different sectors of economic activity and occupational groups.
Using international data and complex methodologies, it offers cross-country comparisons about employment trends as well as future trends on level of education and labour forse. The forecasts are validated by national experts but are not intended to replace national projections, which often use more detailed data and methods.
The latest round of the forecast covers the period up to 2035. The forecast takes account of global economic developments up to Autumn 2023. The short-term GDP projections are in line with Ameco's Autumn 2023 Economic Forecast, while the long-term projections are in line with the GDP projections used in the Europop 2023 population projections, as detailed in the 2024 Ageing Report.
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As an EU national, you're entitled to work,for an employer or as a self-employed person,in any EU country without needing a work permit.
And while doing so, you are entitled to live there — subject to certain conditions.
If you live and work in another EU country, it's important to be aware of the consequences. Your Europe can help you understand your right, including your benefits (sickness, maternity/paternity, pensions, occupational accidents and diseases, death grants, unemployment, early retirement, family, etc.), where you have to pay tax and your insurance.
As an EU citizen you are entitled to equal treatment in recruitment, working conditions, promotion, pay, access to vocational training, occupational pensions and dismissal. Discrimination in the workplace on the grounds of age, sex, disability, ethnic or racial origin, religion or belief, or sexual orientation is banned across the EU in both the public and private sector.
As an EU national, you must also be treated in exactly the same way as your local colleagues who are citizens of the country. Your Europe can help you understand your working rights, social benefits and access to public employment services.
In order to be able to make informed decisions about mobility, jobseekers and employers need information on a wide range of practical, legal and administrative questions. The EURES portal provides information tools which aim to give help and support when considering moving to or recruiting from another country.
The 'Living and working conditions' database contains details on a number of important issues such as finding accommodation, finding a school, taxes, cost of living, health, social legislation, comparability of qualifications, etc.
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