LONDON – Britain has received a surge in job searches from overseas during the past year, partly reflecting a post-Brexit relaxation in work visa rules for non-European Union nationals, figures from recruitment website Indeed showed on Tuesday.
A record 5.5 percent of searches for British jobs on Indeed’s website in June came from potential applicants outside the country, up from 4.4 percent a year earlier and an average of 3.6 percent from 2017 to 2019.
Pawel Adrjan, Indeed’s director of research for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said the increase showed a growing interest in higher-skilled jobs like software development from non-EU applicants, and a shift from lower-ski…
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