This summer is extraordinary – it’s “closed” for regular holidays, BUT open for your job search! 53% of monitored European countries have published more job ads in Week 32 than in Week 15! Go ahead and apply!

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Depending on the country, the government reactions to CV-19 (e.g. from no to partial to full lock-down) started at different moments during the first quarter of 2020. Consequently, the job markets (and its players) responded in their own manner and timing.

Given the nature of our work at Career Angels, we are very close to the job market and its decision makers; and everybody we spoke to (almost 500 board members across Europe) had a different opinion and reaction early on, as well as during the 20 weeks that followed. But opinions are just that – personal impressions and interpretations.

We, therefore, felt the need to find a KPI that better reflected how the various job markets reacted. The moment we realized that CV-19 was not a temporary phenomenon, but a temporarily permanent one, we chose to track the number of published job ads on LinkedIn which is an actual indicator of demand on the visible job market. And even though it’s not a perfect KPI, as e.g. some companies decided to move their job ads to cheaper local platforms, it still gives a quite good feel of how confident companies feel about the further market development.
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“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” by Abraham Lincoln

LMGTFY: Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865), American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865). Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery and modernized the U.S. economy.

We’ve collected some feedback and impressions from the participants of both editions of our Open Webinars. Here’s what they think of our initiative and how has it helped them so far:

I have made it to the final round with one job […]. Your tips helped because I contacted the CMO directly. They respect my effort so far in terms of applying […]. I don’t know what will happen, but you helped so much!
External Consultant

I got invited for an interview […] and the recruiter asked me for my CV, therefore I sent the one I had prepared based on Open Webinars. During the interview, I was answering questions using the STAR method. Then I got invited for the second interview […]. I do believe that recruiters have a better first impression once reading my tidy, improved CV.
A big thank you to Career Angels for providing such useful tips!
Financial Controller

Thank you for the support! I modified my CV and the screening calls are going much better for me now. I have had a few interviews so far […]. Another useful piece of advice was to get in touch with headhunters. I am slowly building my network.
Professional Development & Learning Lead
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