The Icelandic Directorate of Labour had 422 job vacancies registered at the end of March in the Reykjavik area, compared to just 82 at the same time last year. There were also jobs available elsewhere in the country – especially in the eastern region.
According to mbl.is, Hrafnista nursing home is trying to recruit 50 summer staff; but many more of the national vacancies are permanent positions. Over 50 percent of Iceland’s biggest companies plan to hire new people this year and professions in demand include economists and engineers.
The fact that the Directorate of Labour is advertising more jobs this year is clearly a good thing which proves there are still jobs out there; but it does not prove that the employment situation in Iceland is better than last year. With unemployment at a 13 year high, it would be hard to argue that.
A year ago more jobs were filled privately, advertised through private agencies or just in newspapers. This year more employers are taking advantage of the DoL’s free advertising facilities, knowing that unemployed people regularly visit their website.
Hallo, the hard working nation? What’s up?
Not hungry enough?
The economy is bouncing back,
we will need to import people by the end of the year like we have been doing for years.
Please read this article about Icelands economic crisis.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13055
YEAH!! BUT WHY WORK AS AN ECONOMIST OR ENGINEER IN ICELAND WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO GET PAID AS ANY YOUNG GUY WITHOUT EDUCATION AT THE CASH IN ANY SUPERMARKET IN THE EU?? YEAH THERE ARE AVAILABLE JOBS, WHAT THEY DON´T SAY IS THAT MOST OF THOSE JOBS ARE NOT EVEN FULL TIME JOBS. NURSERY WORKERS, OR DO YOU MEAN KINDERGARDEN TEACHERS? TAKE AT LEAST ONE MONTH VACATION, YEAH, SOMEONE NEED TO BE THERE TO TAKE CARE OF THE BABIES… THAT IS A STUDENTS JOB… BUT WHAT DO YOU DO THE REST OF 11 MONTHS? LOOK UP TO THE CEILING AND PRAY??
EVEN IN COUNTRIES LIKE USA OR ANYWHERE IN EUROPE ARE HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS OF JOB OFFERS… THE PROBLEM IS ADAPTING THOSE OFFERS TO THE NEEDS OF THE WORKERS… THAT IS NOT AN EASY TASKS.
“Over 50 percent of Iceland’s biggest companies plan to hire new people this year and professions in demand include economists and engineers.” YEAH ALEX, BUT YOU FORGOT TO MENTION OR ADD THIS: OVER 50 PERCENT OF THE COMPANIES THAT HAVENT GONE BANKRUPT YET !! JUST THINK THAT SINCE OCTOBER 2008 MORE THAN THE 30% OF ICELANDIC COMPANIES, SPECIALLY THOSE YOU CALL “BIG”, HAVE GONE BANKRUPT ( JUST THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE FIRED AT THE BANKS WAS HUGE!!)
MORE THAN 2000 PEOPLE ARE STILL LOOSING THEIR JOBS ON A WEEKLY BASIS IN ICELAND, SO I DON´T SEE HOW ROUGHLY 500 JOBS CAN MAKE UP FOR ALL OF THEM.
ECONOMISTS, ENGINEERS AND ALL KIND OF HIGH QUALIFIED PEOPLE IS FLEEDING THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY CAN GET MORE ANYWHERE IN EUROPE OR CANADA, ETC.. THAN IN ICELAND. REMEMBER THAT THE ICELANDIC KRONA HAS A VALUE OF 169 ISK PER EURO, THAT MEANS THAT THE KRÓNA HAS LESS VALUE TODAY THAN THE OLD PESETA IN SPAIN 10 YEARS AGO!!
SO ACTUALLY ICELANDERS ARE EARNING THE SAME SALARIES AS SPANIARDS TEN YEARS AGO, I DON´T THINK IT IS VERY APPEALING…
what job offered krippa . i went to vinnamalastofn nothing offered at least in English .Can someone guide me.
thanks.
Ha! Those 422 jobs will be so nice for the 20.000 fólk out of work. Kreppa any one? We all gotta work the kreppa, but really now!
GUS, are you aware of the place which still offers lower salaries than before it adopted Euro ? A pitiful land where you can’t afford to live on your own unlikely almost European youngsters (I meant as an honest man: 0% of inhab.). Trust me, I could have endured (with our average crappy wage) more days in Oslo (using a bad exchange rate) than in main Italian cities (nowhere can offer so-called real ‘career opportunities’ here). Tax/Bills are too expensive/too many. Plus people are filled with sh1t (argue+complain all day long and solve NOTHIN’) …. How could it be an EU founder etc etc ?
perhaps I might have a grudge against them due to personal reasons, however I won’t gain a single coin for that. I’d like to reveal the truth, not more. (and destroy the 100% FALSE good reputation they have built over the entire Earth)
Regarding bankruptcy, I read somewhere that Sweden leads the ranking among EU (% , not mere numbers).
Maybe there will be more jobs when Iceland becomes New Israel:
A second Jewish state: Iceland might be cool…
Sultan Al Qassemi
April 12. 2009
“It is said that radical times call for radical thinking, but even by my own standards this is a controversial proposal: perhaps there is merit in an argument for the creation of a second Jewish state – not to replace Israel, but in addition to it, to embarrass it in front of the world.
So I propose the creation of an additional Jewish state – also democratic, but not in the business of tarnishing the good reputation of the Jewish religion and people. After all, there are dozens of majority Muslim and Christian countries that are not founded on holy lands: why not one more Jewish one?
Because of the global economic crisis there are several countries in financial difficulties that might consider a possible purchase offer: Iceland, for one, with all due respect to Icelanders. With its dire financial situation, tiny population of 300,000 and strategic location between the USA and Europe, it would be an ideal candidate that shouldn’t cost more than $50 billion …”
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090412/OPINION/466742916/1080
Not as absurd as it seems, really. Deutsche Bank and the other foreign creditors will have control over most of Iceland – fish, energy, home mortgages, businesses, banks – within five years. And the guilty Germans are always willing to help Israel. Or perhaps it would be a joing Anglo-American / German move.
It would be easy to do. Just strangle the country economically — shut down businesses, stop oil, stop money from abroad, and half or more of Iceland would emigrate. Even more if you raid the pension funds. You could get the whole country for much less than $50 billion. Maybe $10 billion. The Israelis are fanatics, you can get them to settle anywhere.
Bæjarins Besta would serve kosher hot dogs.
The more likely scenario is that Israel will collapse within 20 years and most of the Israeli Jews will move to the US, especially to Arizona.
CIA Report: Israel Will Fall In 20 Years
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22208.htm
A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel’s survival beyond the next 20 years.
The CIA report predicts “an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947/1948 and 1967 refugees. The latter being the precondition for sustainable peace in the region.”
The study, which has been made available only to a certain number of individuals, further forecasts the return of all Palestinian refugees to the occupied territories, and the exodus of two million Israeli – who would move to the US in the next fifteen years.
“There is over 500,000 Israelis with American passports and more than 300,000 living in the area of just California,” and those who do not have American or western passport, have already applied for them.
“So I think the handwriting at least among the public in Israel is on the wall…[which] suggests history will reject the colonial enterprise sooner or later.”
The funny thing is that most of those jobs are part time/ minimum wage positions. But at the same time it is well known that you actually get MORE from the welfare fund than working a full time job on minimum wage. Steingrímur was forced to admit as much.
My wife is still advertising for positions at the hotel she works at (not through vinnamalastofn), from redeption worker to cleaners/general worker. But she is struggling to get Icelanders to work for her. The salary is not much above minimum wage and when many icelanders enquire about it they simply say “i´m not prepared to work for that amount. I´m better off on welfare!”. She is forced to admit they have a point.
As for this item about 50% of companies recruiting for skilled roles i´m not sure about that. I know of only 3 companies that are stil doing well in the Kreppan (össur, CCP games, Marel) and i work for one of them and know of people who work in the others. We aren´t doing any major recruiting this year. Perhaps the new banks may hire a few hundred new staff. But nowhere on the scale we´ve seen in the past…
This kind of news only say that the show is still the same, the media working for the goberment, and trying to lif the spirits of ignorant people no offence Axel, what 400 and something “jobs” will do for 18,000 unemployed and counting? This news are design to lift the spirits of children in nother countries but here it works for the general population, no offence Axel, they collect a number of maybe farmers thet need a boy to clean the barn(for one day), mothers that need a baby sitter(for a night), news papers adds wher they need a painter, (for a room, 3 days tops), and the little shop at the corner that need an attendant for the weekends; they putit as facts and make it news, and people like Axel get very optimistic, ha ha.
let´s stop for a minute. who are icelanders, but a bunch of fishermen dreaming on living in the hightest standar of life? when tourist just land in your country, they don ´t see any marvel at all, just a few mountains with no trees and a terrible weather conditions. You thought you were a kind of economic miracle… than turn out in the poorest nation in Europe when deceived by greedy bankers and a stupid goverment
Yes as Bob and Easy say many of the jobs are part time or below welfare benefit payments.
Q-Who wants to work for less than welfare payments?
A-Time to lower welfare payments to force people to take ANY offered employment.
Still many think low paid jobs are beneath them,now is time to get over it.
uufff i think it so hard today , that is very funny that ther is jobs in iceland coz i cant finde eny think , eny way, this krepa , make s peopel more rich, in iceland , some fall down know , and athers just get more and more up , belive me , and we litel class, we just survive, so i just wish , too all the peopel too be very strong , and dont get very depress.
Exellent point ISK.
ISK. This might work. BUT!
But first you MUST create these ANY jobs – I mean some 10,000 jobs. Can you? Or are you good at free advice only? ;-)
With 17,000+ unemployed? I’m very much doubt Iceland will “import” any new workers in next 5 years.
And by “bouncing” do you mean the economy is hitting people? Like bouncing from the wall ball? :-)
Yes, there are jobs and several companies doing well. But for next decade – no easy money for “desktop workers”. This is a bad news.
A good news – this is not pure Icelandic problem. This is a world wide problem.
Bad news – I see no indications that “world leaders” and their teams have any clue what’s wrong and how to fix.
Hehe Iceland a jewish state, the dumbest idea ive heard so far, if they decide to come they will have to bring guns and if they bring guns they should remeber to bring shovels as well because we shoot back, plenty of guns here and rednecks that know how to use them, if we loose we will make sure no one wins.
Im not saying that 400 jobs are enough for all unemployed people here, its a sign of change.
ISK SAID “Still many think low paid jobs are beneath them,now is time to get over it.”
IT IS NOT THAT THEY THINK LOW PAID JOBS ARE BENEATH THEM, IT IS THAT YOU CANNOT MAKE A LIVING WITH THAT… AND YOU NEED TO MOVE ABROAD FOR BETTER OPPORTUNITIES, SOUNDS FAMILIAR TO YOU?
VILHJAM PLEASE! SHARE THAT S**T! DON´T LET US WAIT ANYMORE, WHERE DO YOU BUY IT? PLEASE SHARE!!
UNO DE ESPANA, I AGREE WITH YOU IN EVERYTHING BUT ONE THING, ICELAND IS A COUNTRY OF SPECIAL BEAUTY… IT IS VERY WORTHY TO VISIT AND I HOPE THAT THIS GOBERMENT STARTS HELPING THOSE ICELANDERS WHO HAVE DECIDED TO OPEN BUSINESS BASED ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM. SUSTAINABLE TOURISM INVITES TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT. IT IS AN INDUSTRY THAT, IF WELL DESIGNED, CAN BRING LOTS OF PROSPERITY AND FOR SURE COMPLEMENT THE ECONOMY MAKING IT MORE FLEXIBLE AND LESS DEPENDENT ON MAIN PRODUCTS ( LIKE FISH OR WHATEVER).
IT IS FOR SURE THAT THE KEY FOR ICELAND IS TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND PRODUCTION OF ANYTHING THAT IS WELL PROFITABLE. BUT ICELAND REALLY NEEDS TO GET INTO THE EU, GET THE EURO, STOP THE FISH BULL AND TAKE STEPS INTO REAL DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNITY.
THIS IS NOW OR NEVER AND I HOPE THAT ICELANDERS ARE INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO SEE THAT THEY CANNOT GET WELL ALONG JUST BY THEIR OWN.
“Im not saying that 400 jobs are enough for all unemployed people here, its a sign of change.”
YES AXEL IT IS A REAL SIGN OF CHANGE, BAD CHANGE THOUGH, LAST YEAR THERE WERE MORE THAN 5000 JOB POSITIONS AVAILABLE ALL THROUGH THE COUNTRY, THIS YEAR ARE ONLY 400…
@Axel
Please, Icelanders dont even have guns, maybe 10, dont even know how to deffend themselves, you punch somebody and he goes crying(literaly) to the police, and have you seen the police? they dont even know how to use the pepperspray, they were so nervous that they were spraying their own fellows seen more that 2 videos, sick funny. People here shout and scream to each other very toughly but at the end they let the “authorities” to decide.
@Alexander
I´m acctually very surprised with your post, this time I totally agree with you specially with the response to Axel.
yeah, this is a sign…of change…sure.
When there were much less people without job – there were much more jobs available. No we have much more people without a job – and much less jobs available. What kind of sing is this? Not positive for sure.
BUT! As usual there is but ;-) The number of unemployed is not rocketing to the sky as before. For sure it will increase but much, much slower – and this is positive sign. I’m not saying – good. Just positive.