Germany: new Eldorado for qualified jobseekers from southern Europe?

“There’s a lot of potential in Spain where thousands of engineers and IT specialists are unemployed” declared Monika Varnhagen, leader of the International Placement Services (Zentralen Arbeits- und Fachvermittlung, ZAV).  This organization, which answers to the Employment Agency, launched earlier this summer a wide information and recruitment campaign, relayed by the local press – with headlines reading “The German employment miracle.”
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ts are unemployed” declared Monika Varnhagen, leader of the International Placement Services (Zentralen Arbeits- und Fachvermittlung, ZAV). This organization, which answers to the Employment Agency, launched earlier this summer a wide information and recruitment campaign, relayed by the local press – with headlines reading “The German employment miracle.”

While 45% of young people are looking for a job in Spain, the first economic power in Europe looks like an El Dorado: because of high growth

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