Immigration to European Union (EU) Member States for working purposes

Working in foreign countries can bring several benefits to the jobseekers; the experience of working abroad is not only an opportunity to travel to new territories and to get acquainted with new cultures, but also it provides the people with highly tangible job benefits which will have positive and durable effects on their jobs and careers.

Job seeking beyond the national borders provides a jobseeker with the opportunity to work and to make progress in his/her field of interest, because job opportunities, even in developed countries, can be limited and the people outside the boarders may seek their interested job fields. In addition, finding jobs in foreign countries may considerably develop working relations among the individuals bringing them new working relations. On the other hand, due to cultural differences among the countries as well as other factors, similar job fields may be done in different ways from one to another country. Hence, working in foreign countries provide jobseekers with the opportunity to find more comprehensive information on their jobs and to find more efficient ways to perform them. Thus, employment of manpower who have learned new skills in new workplaces can help companies providing competitive advantages.

Today, several countries face shortage of educated and skillful manpower to meet their needs and economic development necessities in their countries. This means that companies in such countries pay quite suitable wages and benefits in order to recruit eligible jobseekers to fill vacancies. In some cases, even governments consider incentives such as tax exemptions and other immigration services to help jobseekers who travel to their countries to perform the intended jobs. This means that jobseekers can gain higher incomes in those countries as compared to their home countries.

On the other hand, many of the employers hiring foreign jobseekers consider inexpensive and affordable housing and other benefits for them which reduces their living costs in foreign countries allowing them to save more money.

In the coming years, work experience abroad will bring more benefits to people because those applicants who have such experience in their resumes will receive more job offers as compared to those who lack such advantage in their resumes. In future, managers will look for those jobseekers who have experienced working in foreign countries since such experience indicate risk-taking, success in challenging job positions and more developed work experience. Therefore, due to the high advantages of work experience in foreign countries, jobseekers who look for exciting challenges should consider such experience.

In the recent years, EU countries have also been among the countries recruiting workforce from different parts of the world. Several foreign countries such as EU member states enjoy a healthier economy and a high standard of living. Those jobseekers who especially travel to such countries from less developed countries can enjoy the benefits of living and working with higher standards and wages in addition to gaining valuable work experiences and improving their resumes because the countries that face shortage of skillful workforce in special fields offer higher wages to recruit workforce.

Besides, if interview stages are passed successfully, all stages of immigration and accommodation in the destination countries are borne by employer in such work-related immigrations. Managers of companies obtain work visas for jobseekers, purchase air tickets for new destinations and prepare accommodations for the jobseekers in new countries. Such advantages will considerably reduce jobseekers’ costs and change such job opportunities to attractive options.

On the other hand, despite the fact that different EU member states have their own special rules for those who are not from any of the EU member states and are willing to enter these countries to work, according to the circular ratified in 2011, a set of rules have been considered for work forces other than those of EU member states who work in one of the latter states. This instruction is applied to most of the nationals of non-EU member states who have arrived this union with work and residence permits. It includes a unique permit for working and residence, a unique application process for such permit and a set of rules for non-European workforce such as working conditions, freedom of meetings and joining to worker’s organizations, education and occupational training, social security, tax benefits, access to goods and services including consultation on employment and housing issues which may have some exceptions depending on the member state. Consideration of such benefits has led to a higher welcome by skillful jobseekers in the recent years for choosing EU member states for residence and working.

Consultation with the experts of an international employment agency may help the jobseekers who have studied and enjoy work experiences in the fields intended by this union in finding a job and residence in EU member states.

Working in foreign countries can not only become one of our memorable experiences, but also it can be a turning point for development of a stable and profitable career path.