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New job vacancy service broadens jobseekers' horizons

Local jobseekers looking for work across Europe can now do so, thanks to a new innovation from EURES (EURopean Employment Services).

EURES Web Services, a new package available on Job Points in all Jobs and Benefits Offices and JobCentres, enhances the current service to jobseekers by providing easier access to vacancies throughout the European Economic Area.

The technology provides details of a wide range of jobs enabling local people, or non-nationals, to search for vacancies from any country.

Unveiling the new service at Newry Jobs and Benefits Office, Daragh Shields, Assistant Director at the Department for Employment and Learning, said:  “The technology we are launching today will help us provide an improved service to all of our clients.

“During this, the European Year of Workers’ Mobility, we, in Northern Ireland, have become increasingly aware of the mobility of the workforce, not least through the numbers of non-nationals seeking employment here.  This new service will be crucial in helping meet the demands of an increasingly complex labour force, providing a complete European Jobs Service.

“Those seeking employment can now broaden their horizons and make full use of the opportunities that exist across the European Economic Area.”

The service is available on Job Points located in all 35 Jobs and Benefits Offices and JobCentres in Northern Ireland. It can also be accessed through the Northern Ireland employment service website www.jobcentreonline.com external link or through the EURES portal www.eures-jobs.com external link

NOTES TO EDITORS:

  1. Eures(EURopean Employment Service), was launched in 1993 as a Network of co-operation between employment services of the member states of the European Economic Area, their partners and the European Commission, to exchange information concerning employment vacancies and applications for employment and trends of the labour market as well as information concerning living and working conditions.
  2. Media queries to the Department for Employment and Learning Press Office on 028 9025 7872.