Market Signals
by Career Angels
Job Market in 2021
DACH, Visegrad, Italy & Belgium

gathered 6140 data points
received over 400 insights from Executives & HR Directors
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tracked 80 countries around the world for 21 months!
With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Career Angels started to
record and compare unemployment levels vs. the number of job ads
published on LinkedIn. So far we have:
Market Signals
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From the employer perspective: more demand for
candidates = salaries and/or benefit packages go
up. The “post and pray” approach might not work.
On the other hand, more candidates, more choice,
more negotiation flexibility.
From the candidate perspective: more demand =
"less effort" put into the job search (less time, more
space to negotiate salary).
Why do we do that? Who can find our data useful?
Supply & demand
- candidates

Europe
2021 overview
Initial:
3,255,430 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
3,099,742 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
-4.78%
The first half of 2021 showed a very strong upward tendency, despite 3 weeks of
numbers dropping a little at the beginning of May. The number of job ads peaked at
the end of June and then dropped drastically. Since the end of July, the job ad level
has slowly been increasing and might soon reach the one from the beginning of 2021.
July 26
June 28

DACH
2021 overview
Initial:
1,011,829 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
1,138,021 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
+12.47%
The DACH region is one of the biggest contributors to the overall European level of
job ads on LinkedIn. Thus, the tendencies of both are similar: an increase in the first
half of 2021, a peak at the end of June, a drastic decrease at the end of July, and
a slow recovery that came after.
July 26
June 28

Austria
2021 overview
Initial:
53,782 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
35,727 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
-33.57%
Unemployment:
(January - October 2021)
6.8 → 5.8
July 26
June 28

Germany
2021 overview
Initial:
804,347 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
1,045,273 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
+29.95%
Unemployment:
(January - October 2021)
3.9 → 3.3
July 26
June 28

Switzerland
2021 overview
Initial:
153,700 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
57,021 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
-62.90%
Unemployment:
(January - October 2021)
5.4 → 4.9
July 26
June 28

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Visegrad
2021 overview
Initial:
185,016 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
186,549 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
+0.83%
The Visegrad countries (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary) also reflect the overall
European situation in 2021, but the most important moments happened at slightly
different timing. The June job ad peak took place 2 weeks before, and the summer
decrease two weeks after the phenomenon was observed in the rest of Europe.
August 2
June 14

Czechia
2021 overview
Initial:
33,824 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
39,824 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
+17.74%
Unemployment:
(January - October 2021)
3.2 → 2.6
August 2
June 21

Hungary
2021 overview
Initial:
16,680 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
14,386 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
-13.75%
Unemployment:
(January - October 2021)
4.5 → 3.9
July 19
July 12

Poland
2021 overview
Initial:
127,613 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
128,219 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
+0.47%
Unemployment:
(January - October 2021)
3.7 → 3.4
August 16
June 21

Slovakia
2021 overview
Initial:
6,899 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
4,120 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
-40.28%
Unemployment:
(January - October 2021)
7.0 → 6.3
August 16
February 22

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Italy
2021 overview
Initial:
89,020 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
163,027 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
+83.14%
Unemployment:
(January - October 2021)
10.2 → 9.4
August 16
July 12

Belgium
2021 overview
Initial:
119,825 job ads
Week 1
(January 4, 2021)
Final:
86,917 job ads
Week 49
(December 6, 2021)
Result:
-27.46%
Unemployment:
(January - October 2021)
6.5 → 6.3
November 8
June 14

Other KPIs
MORE (!) job ads in EN
for senior managers &
executives
MORE candidates
per job ad:
[84.8 in February]
13.8 in July
18.6 in October
In other words:
- more competition for candidates, but (!) more available offers
- more talent to choose from for HR

in other words: supply of candidates in Europe?
Between January & October 2021, out of 30 countries:
(that have shared their most recent data)
All 30 countries: unemployment DOWN
Best result: Greece (15.9 to 12.9)
Change in unemployment
rates during CV-19:

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