
After months of monitoring the number of job ads published on LinkedIn in Europe since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to compare our data with the official unemployment rates provided by Eurostat. We identified 3 categories when it comes to how the number of LinkedIn job ads and the unemployment rates behave in relation to each other.





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This week we’ve researched job ads for executives across Europe and have found 29 gems like the following: