The number of foreign specialists applying for a job in Estonia almost doubled over the last year.
The number of foreign specialists applying for a job in Estonia through the state program Work in Estonia organized by Enterprise Estonia and Kredex almost doubled over the last year -- while 24,781 foreign candidates applied in 2020, the number of specialists applying for jobs in 2021 was 45,329.
"These figures show that Estonia is an increasingly attractive destination country for working," Anneli Aab, head of the Work in Estonia program, said. "The competition for talent is global and it is difficult for Estonia to compete with large Western European countries in terms of both reputation and salary levels. However, the growing interest in Estonia as a destination country for work shows that the years of introducing Estonia as an innovative country with a low level of bureaucracy have been successful," she added.
People from Turkey, Brazil and Georgia have applied for work through the Work in Estonia program the most. The positions for which foreign talent has been recruited the most are software developer and various positions in the IT field in general.