Rotterdam – Brussels, 26th of January 2010

A comprehensive White Paper has been releaed this week by Intelligence Group and The Network using analysis from The World’s Largest Candidate Behaviour Research to underpin an imminent recruitment rally on the international labour market. The White Paper, based on the Global Talent Mobility Research, which included 66,019 respondents from over 40 different countries around the world, discusses major trends affecting the global labour market and provides recommendations to firms with global recruitment strategies on how to win the rally.

Globalisation of local labour markets
Labor markets are globalising at a high pace. This is a result from both the fact that job boards have became smarter and developments in social media and search engines. This provides international candidates with a very wide mix of channels to find their job in the global labour market. In addition, general trends are seen as well which affect the globalness of labour markets. For instance the increased number of Generation Y candidates on total workforce, has resulted in a more positive attitude towards international mobility. A second trend shows that the better the economic situation in a country in terms of GDP growth, the higher the propensity that their residents will consider working abroad. This means that, with the prospected improvement of economies in 2010 an even wider part of the world’s workforce will have positive opinions towards international labour market mobility.

Get ready for the international recruitment rally
The paper discusses these and other major trends and their impact on the global labour market. In addition, five key aspects are highlighted that hiring firms must keep in mind in order to win the rally and be successful on the global labour market. One of these aspects concerns the importance of knowing your target group. The more specifically the target group is defined, the more effective communication with them will be. Knowledge of a particular target group influences the information communicated and the best channel to use. Other trends affecting labor markets and the remaining four things firms should keep in mind are presented in the paper.

"Get ready for the international recruitment rally" by dowloading the full report from the Intellience Group or from The Network or by sending an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

About The Network
StepStone, totaljobs.com and jobs.ch created The Network in October 2002 to provide international recruiters with unrivalled access to online recruitment services through a network of leading local sites. The Network covers more than 100 countries and has a combined traffic of more than 47,000,000 unique visitors (Comscore, May '09). Recruiters can benefit from Network services through a single point of contact.

About Intelligence Group
Intelligence Group is a Dutch research- and consultancy agency with regard to recruitment marketing and recruitment. On the basis of innovative research methods, recruitment problems are analysed and solved. This can range from research reports and consultancy to all-encompassing solutions to recruitment, recruitment marketing and Employer Branding problems on both national and international level. Intelligence Group is a trendsetting partner of nearly all important employers and recruitment-related parties in The Netherlands and beyond the borders.

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