If you are looking for a new job and would like to replace the Croatian labor market with a foreign one, you might direct your gaze towards some countries you haven’t considered before. Namely, although most people from Croatia are hunting for jobs in Central and Northern Europe, the best jobs, at least in terms of the number of people wanting to work there, are found in the Middle East.
Doha and Dubai are the first two cities in terms of the number of candidates wanting to be employed there, as shown by a study by Resume.io. For the research, data from 130 global cities and every U.S. state was used, tracking the number of applications submitted for jobs in the first week after they were advertised. To be considered, cities had to have at least 100 job postings shared on LinkedIn (during the period when the company was collecting data – which was at the end of February 2023).
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The research showed that an average of 399 candidates apply for jobs in the capital of Qatar weekly, while about 282 people apply for jobs in Dubai. Therefore, Doha and Dubai convincingly hold the top two spots as the two most competitive labor markets in the world, both attracting a large number of job seekers with high salaries and tax-free incomes characteristic of the region.
Following them in the ‘top 5’ are Istanbul, Johannesburg, and Abu Dhabi, and interestingly, out of the ten cities on the list only one city is from Europe. Middle Eastern countries made up half of the top-10 list of ‘most competitive labor markets in the world.’
Here’s who is on the list:
1. Doha, Qatar: 399.0
