EURES service in the European Union and in the European Economic Area

After accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union, the Employment Offices were integrated with the EURES network, the basic role of which is to facilitate the international mobility of a workforce. The EURES (EURopean Employment Services) service is offered by the public employment services of all  27 EU member states, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein as members of the European Economic Area (EEA). Switzerland has also entered the agreement on participating in the EURES network.

The basic task of the EURES network is to provide services useful to workers, job-seekers as well as employers, generally to all citizens who wish to use their right of free movement of persons. EURES uses the following two basic methods to provide its services to citizens and employers. The first, through the databases published on EURES - European job mobility portal, the second, by providing information and consulting services offered by EURES advisers and EURES contact personnel operating at Czech Employment Offices.

 

The official EURES - European Job Mobility portal under the European Commission is the basis of all the databases operated by EURES:

Primarily, it provides a database of vacancies in the EURES network member states. Some countries have already started transferring their complete national databases of vacancies into this database, and by the end of 2005 you will be able to browse complete databases of job opportunities in all theEU/EEA member states. In order to find the maximum number of vacancies available, we recommend that you enter only the required profession and the required country.

The applicants can also use the CV database to type in their professional CVs. This database is available to thousands of registered employers in all member countries who are interested in motivated applicants from other EU/EEA member states.

A very useful source of information is the database of the living and work conditions in the EU/EEA countries. In this database, each member state specifies all the information required for a job applicant in another state to know concerning all the issues associated with the transfer to another EU country and with work and life in that country, such as the issue of transfer to another state, legislation, social scheme, living conditions, useful links, taxes, employment contracts, usual ways of finding jobs, measures related to transitional periods, etc.

For better orientation on the labour market of the country of your interest, use the database providing information on the situation in the local labour market. Here, you will find information on the situation in the labour market down to the individual regions of the member states, and the list of locally most wanted professions as well as a list of professions in which vacancies are most difficult to find.
The section Free Movement provides detailed characteristics of the measures introduced by most of the old EU/EEA members towards the new member states, which will help applicants to better understand the job opportunities in these countries.

The Education database is aimed at those interested in education opportunities in the EU. This section includes a link to the European portal PLOTEUS, providing a database of educational opportunities in Europe. Much of other related information is also provided by the portal European Union for Youth.

For more information on the EURES advisers and EURES contact persons operating at the Employment Offices, please see the section EURES in the Czech Republic.