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A comprehensive forecast on future labour market trends reveals booming opportunities in tech and green sectors, while highlighting critical shortages. Find out how you can use these insights if you’re an employer or jobseeker.

AI is playing a bigger role in hiring, but laws protect you. Here is what you need to know.

In June 2026, the European Labour Authority (ELA) coordinated its first week of action dedicated to temporary employment agencies and other labour intermediaries. In this targeted action, enforcement authorities from 14 EU Member States worked together to check 70 companies and almost 2800 workers.

In today’s Europe of skills shortages, public employment services are helping employers adopt effective recruitment practices that focus more on skills, not qualifications.

You possess valuable skills. It’s time to learn how to showcase them to land your next job.

A new annual report maps where workers are missing and where they are available, sector by sector and country by country.

A new online platform connecting employers with qualified non-EU candidates is on the way. Find out how it works.

Millions of Europeans are crossing borders for better careers, short-term gigs and new adventures with EURES by their side. You can do it, too!

The European Labour Authority presented awards to six exemplary practices during the ELA annual conference on declared work in Larnaca, Cyprus, on 12 March 2026.

AI could be a force for good in our careers and lives. It could also lead us down a darker path. Read about three such futures that could become reality, all depending on the action Europe takes now.

Spaniard Juan Jesús Toscano works in Portugal’s leading golf resort, after advice from the EURES cross-border partnership Andalucia-Algarve (EURES-T AA).

The European Labour Authority (ELA), through the EURES network, launched the 15 years of European Job Days (EJDs) campaign. This EURES service brings together jobseekers and employers, supporting access to job opportunities from across Europe.

Patience and perseverance paid off for Italian content specialist Giorgia Cappellina when she sought the support of EURES to realise her ambition of moving to work in Germany.

Looking to take your career beyond borders or considering hiring candidates from another European country? Then European Job Days are your ideal solution.

On March 11, 2026, the European Labour Authority marks the 10th anniversary of the European Platform tackling undeclared work, celebrating ten years of cooperation to promote declared work, protect workers’ rights and support fair labour markets across the EU.

When work is off the books, everyone loses – workers, businesses and Europe’s economy. A new EU-wide campaign tells us why stopping it is important.

Europass offers free digital tools and information to help you stay organised as you build and strengthen your career profile.

The European Labour Authority has launched a new EU-wide communication campaign to promote declared work. The initiative marks 10 years of the European Platform tackling undeclared work and reinforces the joint commitment of Member States to advance towards fair and transparent labour practices across Europe.

Many fear that AI is coming for their jobs, but for young Europeans it’s unlocking brand-new career paths and possibilities.