Eastern European Recruitment & Jobs. UK, Switzerland, Ireland.
Whether you are a UK or European employer looking for staff or a jobseeker from one of the central and eastern european countries to join the EU in 2004 and 2007 and looking for work in the UK, Western Europe or even further afield, we may be able to assist you.
Eastern Europeans has been promoting people from Eastern Europe in the UK in particular, but open to all international employers - especially from Ireland and Switzerland - via our former online community platform since 2006. We also started a recruitment service in late 2007 after getting a lot of employer requests to set this up rather than just have a jobsite, and on average get queries from several thousand candidates(pre current turmoil) and several hundred employers each year. We may reintroduce(since 2007) a separate jobsite mid to late 2019 so those employers who prefer that option over a recruitment service can advertise on there.
While things have changed considerably in the international job market across Europe and the UK in particular in the post financial crisis(2014) to pre-Brexit period(2019) and may change further in the post-Brexit period, we will do our best to continue to service any demand.
Please use the relevant section link in the menu above to navigate the website, depending on whether you are a jobseeker looking for a job or an employer looking to recruit Eastern European staff.
Population - 7.1 million. Capital- Sofia. Fastest shrinking European population. Main countries of Bulgarian workers job migration: Greece, Spain, Germany, UK. Outside of Europe, it is the US and Canada.
Population - 1.3 million. Capital- Tallinn. UK Estonian population is unclear, but believed to be just under 10,000. Known for a relatively high level of online technological development, including inventing Skype and first global E- citizen program,offered by the Estonian gov't', which is quite popular.
Population - 9.8 million. Capital- Budapest. Hungarians are the third largest contributor to the UK job market force after Poland and Romania, with most based in London.
Population - 1.96 million. Capital- Riga. Population shrunk by 18% since early 2000's. Job migration is main reason. One of the most popular global social media sites Ask.fm was created in Riga.
Population - 2.9 million. Capital- Vilnius. Population shrunk by 17.5% since early 2000's. Job migration and low birth rate are main reasons.
Population - 38 million. Capital- Warsaw. Main countries of Polish worker job migration: Germany, UK(estimated 750,000 - 1,000,000. Highest group). UK Polish population figures have fluctuated downwards since the end of the financial crisis. Rising local wages is believed to be one of the reasons. Salaries now around 70% of EU average.
Population - 19.5 million. Capital- Bucharest. Population down from 23 million in 2002. Main countries of Romanian worker job migration: Italy, Spain, UK(over 400,000 - 2nd highest group), Germany.
Population - 5.4 million. Capital-Bratislava. Between 1 and 1.5% of the Slovakian population live in the UK and contribute to the job market labour force.
Population - 2 million. Capital - Ljubljana. Never really been part of the rush to join the UK job market as local wages have always been relatively high.
Population - 38 million. Capital- Kiev. Not part of the EU, but due to high population, general political instability and very low local salary levels, there are a lot of willing workers ready to move to western job markets. This has benefited some of the EU Eastern European countries such as Poland and Czechia who have employed Ukrainians to partially compensate for the Brain Drain from their countries to the West.
Eastern European nationals from the EU-25 countries, including Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia do not need a work permit to work in Switzerland for periods of less than 3 months. Bulgarians and Romanians will still need permits to June 2019.
New workers from Eastern Europe can still continue to come and work in the UK unrestricted until Dec. 2020. This date will most likely get extended even further, subject to transitional arrangements (withdrawal agreement) being approved.