How the European jobs market is changing

The beginning of 2016 saw Estonia and Norway trump the UK as the best European countries for recruitment.

Accordingly, Recruitment Grapevine asked Jon Ingham, a Careers and Marketplace Expert at Glassdoor, how the European jobs market is changing, and how the quality of the UK’s workforce can be increased.

“As the report notes, approaches which have positive economic impacts can often have side effects as well. In many of the less regulated countries in Europe, which have seen the greatest boosts to employment and economic performance, there are concerns about the quality of these jobs. 

“France in particular has still not shown readiness to follow Germany's economic strategy based on what they dismissively call 'mini jobs' or ones based on fixed term, part-time contracts.