Market Signals
by Career Angels
Southern Europe
Changes on the job market

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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
www.linkedin.com/showcase/market-signals/

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

Southern Europe
Overview
Initial:
289,513 job ads
Week 1
(January 3)
Final:
252,039 job ads
Week 10
(March 7)
Result:
-13.13%
The first months of 2022 were dynamic. After raising and falling and then rising and
falling again, the first week of March starts with the result of -13.13% since the
beginning of 2022.
January 10
February 21

Southern Europe
The beginning of January 2022 started with a higher number of job ads than 2021.
Despite that, in February 2022 the number is lower than the year before.
February
January

Greece
Overview
Initial:
5,867 job ads
Week 1
(January 3)
Final:
7,397 job ads
Week 10
(March 7)
Result:
+26.08%
January 28

Overview
Initial:
151,541 job ads
Week 1
(January 3)
Final:
141,018 job ads
Week 10
(March 7)
Result:
-6.94%
Italy
January 10

Portugal
Overview
Initial:
70,054 job ads
Week 1
(January 3)
Final:
27,369 job ads
Week 10
(March 7)
Result:
-60.93%
January 24

Spain
Overview
Initial:
62,051 job ads
Week 1
(January 3)
Final:
76,255 job ads
Week 10
(March 7)
Result:
+22.89%

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Other KPIs
MORE (!) job ads in EN
for senior managers &
executives
MORE candidates
per job ad:
[84.8 in February 2021]
10.1 in November
39.9 in December
41.5 in January
In other words:
- more competition for candidates
- more talent to choose from for HR

in other words: supply of candidates in Europe?
Between December 2021 & January 2022, out of 31 countries:
(that have shared their most recent data)
19 countries: unemployment DOWN
Best result: Cyprus (6.6 to 6.1)
9 countries: unemployment UP
Worst result: Lithuania (6.6 to 7.0)
3 countries: unemployment BACK TO SAME LEVEL
Ireland, Romania, Slovakia
Change in unemployment
rates during CV-19:

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