Cedefop’s Europass team analysed the impact of COVID-19 on the activity of the Europass portal in March 2020, using the following indicators:
- CVs generated online (March 2020 vs March 2019);
- date of national lockdown in top 20 countries;
- cases of COVID-19 per million inhabitants.
The infographics below provide interesting findings for the top 20 countries:
CV generated online - March 2020 vs March 2019
CVs generated online in March 2020 (all countries) decreased by 36.5% compared to March 2019.
The drop ranges from 9% (Hungary) to 51% (Italy).
Impact of lockdown - CVs generated before and after national confinement measures
The drop of CVs generated online after lockdown is impressive, especially in Portugal (-75%), Spain and Greece (-73%) and Italy (-72%).
Surprisingly, Hungary records an increase of 10% of CVs generated after the lockdown.
Correlation between number of COVID-19 cases and number of CVs generated
There is a significant drop in countries most severely affected by COVID-19 (Italy, France, Spain and Belgium).
This shows that job market is on hold, companies having massively stopped recruiting after the lockdown.
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