1. ESF Informal Technical Working Group meeting Brussels, 17.02.2016
Your First EURES Job
ESF Informal Technical
Working Group meeting
Brussels,

2. What is Your first EURES job (YFEJ)?
YFEJ is a Targeted Mobility Scheme (TMS) under the European Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI)
TMS are initiatives to fill job vacancies in certain sectors, occupations or countries or for particular groups of workers with a propensity to be mobile and where a clear economic need has been identified
YFEJ aims to help young Europeans (EU-28 + NO + IS) aged to find a job, traineeship or apprenticeship in other Member States and employers (SMEs in particular) to find workers for their hard to fill vacancies.

3. Labour market context
Difficult labour market situation in some countries with youth unemployment rates > 30% (e.g. Greece, Spain and Italy);
Skills mismatches and bottleneck vacancies;
Low level of mobility;
Mobility obstacles (e.g. the cost of moving abroad, language learning);

4. Target groups Jobseekers Aged 18-35 EU nationals
Legally living in an EU 28/EEA (i.e. Norway + Iceland) country
Employers
A legally established business in an EU/EEA country
Looking for workers with a specific profile
Offering minimum 6-month contracts, with pay and conditions compliant with national labour law
SMEs may benefit from financial support

5. YFEJ pilot phase – Budget 2011-2013
Purpose
A three-year preparatory action scheme to test a new way of providing tailor-made job mobility services to young people and employers (experimentation and innovation). Mobility package combining information, recruitment, matching and placement services with EU financial incentives, based on simplified cost options.
Features
Open to EU-28 young jobseekers (aged 18-30) and employers
Overall budget : EUR million
Types of placements: jobs, traineeships and apprenticeships
Three calls for proposals, 15 granted projects, public & private organisations

6. Overview YFEJ results – 2012-2015
YFEJ services and support measures
Overall results
Number of placements in another Member State
4,251 (85% of the overall target)
Number of job interviews in another Member State
1,733
Number of language trainings
670
Number of preparatory trainings
1,836
Number of recognition of qualifications 72
Number of integration trainings for SMEs
402

7. Overview YfEj results – 2012-2015
Type of vacancies
Both manual, low skilled and high skilled vacancies
Main economic sectors
and
occupational groups
Administrative and Support Service Activities, Human Health and Social Work Activities, Information and Communication ;
Professionals, Service workers and shop and market sales workers and Technicians and associate professionals
Top 3 recruiting countries
United Kingdom, Germany and Spain
Top 3 sending countries
Spain, Sweden and Italy (project leaders)
Jobseekers' profiles
Around 75% have secondary and tertiary education level
Balanced gender participation (50% male + 50% female candidates)
More than 75% aged above 23

8. Inflows and outflows of jobseekers

9. YFEJ Evaluation
2014 interim evaluation: YFEJ addresses labour market needs (relevance), provides an enhanced Europe-wide service (EU added value) and is complementarity to other national and EU mobility schemes.
YFEJ study (in progress). Objective: to make the ex-post evaluation of the scheme and examine the costs, benefits and impacts of different options for its future development. The study will be concluded in 2016/Q3.
In the framework of this study, an online public consultation is open to
all EU/EEA citizens and organisations (Europa portal)
Deadline:22/04/2016

10. Through the public consultation you can express your views!
YFEJ future
Current situation: YFEJ financed through direct management (EaSI) – annual calls for proposals - large scale projects lead by EURES members (SE, IT and FR)
Future situation (options):
Continue YFEJ under direct management
Provide EU policy support to Member States to implement similar schemes with national budgets or other EU funds e.g. ESF
Up-scale the action within the existing framework or under a new framework e.g. EU job mobility programme
A combination of options above
Through the public consultation you can express your views!

11. Link to the YFEJ public consultation (Europa portal, DG EMPL website):
Thank you
Link to the YFEJ public consultation (Europa portal, DG EMPL website):