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The world is experiencing unprecedented turmoil. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the labor market landscape in the world and caused a shift in mass consciousness. Many people lost jobs while many professions started showing signs of decline. The others are on the rise nowadays. We reevaluated the culture of work and social connections. Followed by the full-scale war Russia unleashed against Ukraine, the world again has to adjust to dramatic changes.
The labor market is not an exception. While many companies in the United States are racking their brains over The Great Resignation (the ongoing economic trend when the US employees have started quitting their jobs), the European labor market is again facing a massive migration crisis caused by the Russian aggression. Millions of Ukrainians cross the EU borders, rescuing their lives. They need jobs and eagerly look for them. With the ease of some COVID restrictions and an increasing level of vaccination, many companies started calling their employees back into the offices. As we see, the labor market is constantly changing. Is a remote job still a king?
What are people looking for the most frequently? Jooble, one of the biggest job search engines worldwide, has analyzed user search inquiries in more than 5 countries. Here, we would like to highlight what the labor market looks like based on these data.
Users search not only for particular professions, such as teachers or journalists. They are often ready for various employment options and type what job formats they are interested in. For example, over the past two months, TOP-15 search inquiries in the United States on Jooble were: work from home, Amazon, online work from home, job with visa sponsorship, part-time, Costco, driver, remote, truck driver, jobs for Ukrainians. It is noteworthy that “working from home” and related inquiries constitute over 37% of the whole search done by the users.
The UK users were looking for jobs providing visa sponsorship, vacancies for pharmacy delivery drivers, as part-time staff required cash hand, work from home, part-time for students, Amazon warehouse, cash hand, jobs in Dubai, Royal Mail, Tesco. As we see, British users show much interest in jobs paid in cash. Moreover, many of them consider working abroad, for example, in the Arab Emirates. When it comes to remote job inquiries, they constitute around 18% of the top-10 search list.
Over the past two months, German users were actively looking for part-time jobs for people without work experience, €450 mini-jobs, truck drivers, weekend jobs, voluntary social year jobs, federal volunteer service, daycare manager, physician assistant, part-time jobs for teenagers, passenger car drivers. It is pretty noteworthy to see that German users look for jobs with particular wages. Teenagers and students actively search for employment opportunities. German users are also interested in completing volunteer jobs that sometimes substitute military service. Remote jobs options seem to lose their popularity. They are far away from the top-10 search requests.
Job seekers from France have different patterns of search. Over the last two months, the most frequent keywords people typed were seasonal worker (July/August), quite surprisingly, the French embassy in Madagascar, jobs for students, seasonal fruit picking, nurse, part-time job, policeman, nursery teacher, casting film, a seasonal job for teenagers. Apart from the unexpected interest in diplomatic work for the embassy, French users are eagerly looking for seasonal jobs. Immensely challenging physically, these vacancies are the best option for summer holidays when the youth doesn’t have to study. Thus, we draw a conclusion that users aged between 17-25 are interested in these jobs the most. Among the top vacancies are also nursery teachers and policemen. Job stability with profound social maintenance enjoys popularity among French users too. Yet, a remote job doesn’t seem to be in their focus, with only 5.5% of “work from home” inquiries.
Users in Italy have been mainly looking for part-time jobs, nursery jobs, vacancies for medical attendants, roles as an extra, cleaning staff, remote options, options for teachers, dog walking, tutors, and babysitter. As we see, medical professions are quite popular among job seekers. Remote job search inquiry constitutes around 9% of all searches. This figure is higher than in France or Germany, yet way lower than in the UK and the United States.
Users looking for a job in Spain are interested in jobs for immigrants that don’t require much paperwork. In the list of search inquiries are also vacancies for cleaning personnel, elderly and children care, nurses, babysitters, and waiters. Quite often, people are looking for jobs paid per hour. The situation is very similar to Portugal, with the only difference that in Spain around 6% of users are looking for remote jobs, while in Portugal this number is above 9.5%.
Analyzing the labor market in the Netherlands, we conclude that most users looking for a job there on Jooble may come outside the country. TOP inquiries over the last two months were “jobs for English-speaking” and “English-speaking vacancies.” Job seekers don’t specify what kind of work they are interested in. The key factor here is the opportunity to communicate in English on a daily basis. Among the other sought-after vacancies are the ones in Municipal Health Services, hospitals, and nursing homes. Users are also actively looking for a job for people in their late 40s-early 50s. Another popular inquiry is “side job 14-15 years old”. When it comes to remote jobs, around 12% of job seekers consider this option.
What does the Austrian job market look like these days? According to Jooble data, the most popular search inquiry of the latest months were Ferienjob Schüler July (student jobs in July) and side jobs. The following ones are AMS (Public Employment Service) vacancies, i.e., those published by the state authorities, holiday jobs in summer, cleaning vacancies, truck drivers, part-time jobs, and nursery school vacancies. Remote jobs constitute only around 3% of search inquiries in the country.
The situation in Switzerland is also quite noteworthy. TOP-5 job searches are done in French and Italian. It may mean that users primarily search for a job in French and Italian- speaking cantons of the country. The most frequent inquiries are jobs for students, jobs without a diploma, part-time jobs, and vacancies with no experience. In German, users are looking for options such as cleaning staff or summer student vacancies. Remote jobs seem to be irrelevant for job seekers. According to Jooble data, less than 5% are interested in them.
Users looking for a job in Poland demonstrate the following tendency: around 15% of them show interest in remote employment; meanwhile, the most frequent job search inquiries are cleaning, working for non-Polish speakers, extra jobs on weekends, and driver vacancies, immediate jobs, hospital vacancies, teachers. Interesting that among the most frequently typed searches are also work for psychologists and employment for people coming from Ukraine. Despite the Polish society’s discontent concerning the high number of Ukrainian workers, the latter ones constitute a powerful engine of the Polish economy. Even now, when Ukrainians flee the war launched by Russia, they don’t count much on the social benefits for refugees. Most people are actively looking for a job.
In the Czech Republic, users are eagerly looking for student jobs, part-time vacancies with morning shifts, weekend jobs, and side jobs from 15 years. We can conclude that most users interested in finding a job in the Czech Republic are students. Job seekers also show interest in vacancies for teaching assistants, drivers, cleaning staff, and salespeople. As per remote jobs, less than 2% of users consider this prerequisite as the crucial one while looking for work. We can see a pretty similar picture in Slovakia and Slovenia. However, the number of job seekers interested in work-from-home options is more significant, with 12% and 17%, respectively.
People seeking a job in Hungary are interested in an immediate start. This search inquiry has become the most popular over the past few months. The other popular vacancies are drivers, salespeople, welders, security guards, teachers, and cleaning staff. Job seekers are also interested in options that don’t require knowledge of Hungarian. Remote jobs also belong to desirable ones. The percentage of people looking for them is more than 10%.
Having analyzed the employment inquiries in the biggest and the most populated European countries and the US, we can conclude that remote options are slowly becoming less popular. The highest percentage of “work-from-home” followers is among the US users, while French and German ones actively consider offline options. Although the pandemic hasn’t gone, and remote work is here to stay for years; users keep looking for alternatives.
