Your first EURES Job

What is this?

An action to help young Europeans find work in other EU countries.

It is one of the actions in the Europe 2020 flagship initiative Youth on the Move and the Youth Opportunities Initiative.

Your first EURES job's target for 2012-13 is to help some 5 000 people to fill job vacancies throughout the EU. Activities started in 2012 and involve only a limited number of employment services and job offers. For more details, please see below.

Your first EURES job is based on support from national employment services – information, job search, recruitment, funding – for both young jobseekers and businesses interested in recruiting from outside their home country. Funding is subject to conditions and procedures put in place by these services.

In the future this action may become part of EURES, the network of European employment services, which already helps people in finding a job abroad.

Who qualifies for support?

Jobseekers who are:

aged 18-30
EU nationals
legally living in an EU country

Employers who are:

a legally established business in an EU country
looking for workers with a specific profile they can't find in their home country
offering minimum 6-month contracts, with pay and conditions compliant with national labour law

What support is available?

Jobseekers

Job matching and job placement support.
Funding towards the costs of an interview trip and/or of moving abroad to take up a new job.

Employers

Recruitment support
Small and medium businesses (companies with up to 250 employees) may apply for financial support to cover part of the cost of training newly-recruited workers and helping them settle in.

Your first EURES job does not apply to jobs in European or other international organisations such as EU institutions and agencies, United Nations bodies, the OECD, the Council of Europe or the World Bank.