This stat says it all.
The number of American people searching for jobs in Ireland has almost doubled since Donald Trump’s victory in last week’s presidential election, according to new research.
This research has come from employment website Indeed, who have reported that Ireland has seen the third largest increase (91%) in the number of people searching for jobs since the election. Ahead of us is Canada in second place (137%), and New Zealand in first (305%).
On the day after the election, foreign job searches coming from the United States on the website Indeed were reported as twice the normal rate.
The interest in foreign searches come from areas that were more favourable towards Hillary Clinton, than her Republican rival, and now President Elect Donald Trump.
Mariano Mamertino, EMEA Economist with Indeed said:
“Our data shows that a highly charged and competitive election campaign, followed by a widely unexpected result led to an immediate and sharp spike in overseas job searches by Americans. Much had been made in the media during the election campaign of the potential for such an outflow of labour in the event of a Trump victory, but it remains to be seen whether these job searches will translate into a movement of workers.”
This news comes a week after it emerged that Canada’s immigration website crashed, due to ten times the normal amount of people being on the site.
We wonder why…
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