An investigation found that the shift to safer jobs and the outflow of foreign workers exacerbated the shortage.

The survey showed that as pubs, restaurants and other hospitality industries and travel companies prepared for the removal of the coronavirus restrictions in England on Monday, British companies increased their searches for new employees.

However, according to a survey conducted by the job search website Adzuna, the outflow of foreign workers has exacerbated the shortage of candidates. In some cities, each job seeker has provided more than 10 job opportunities.

In the first week of May, Adzuna’s job advertisements jumped to 987,800, an increase of 18% from the end of March at the end of March, when non-essential retailers and hotel companies reopened on April 12.

On Monday, England will further remove restrictions to allow bars and restaurants to serve customers indoors.

Adzuna said companies seeking to hire include bar company Whitbread, Stonegate Pub Company and JD Wetherspoons, restaurant chains Nando’s and Pizza Express, Marriott Hotels and Ryanair.

However, after the last three years of work stoppages, many workers have given up opportunities to find hospitality and retail jobs in favor of safer jobs.

Andrew Hunter, co-founder of Adzuna, said: “The number of foreign workers seeking work in the UK is much less than half of what it was before the pandemic. This has dealt a heavy blow to these industries, and it has dealt a serious blow to these industries. .”

Adzuna said that compared to before the pandemic, 250,000 job seekers from Western Europe and North America apply for jobs in the UK every month, a decrease of 250,000 people every month.

Hunter said: “British employers can no longer rely on overseas workers to fill the employment gap.”

Employment gap

It is believed that the combination of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic has reduced the number of foreign workers in the UK.

According to tax data, the Bureau of Statistics estimates that according to tax data, the number of non-British nationals employed in the country in the last three months of 2020 decreased by 4% from the same period in 2019 to 4.22 million, while British nationals fell by 2.6% to 24 million

Azuna said that every job seeker in Manchester has 13 job opportunities, while the ratio between Cambridge and Oxford is 11. In Maidstone in the south-east of England, every job seeker has 20 job opportunities.

The shortage of workers is not unique to Britain. Hotel companies in parts of the United States said their holidays are threatened by a shortage of staff, which echoes the recent problems in Australia.

In the UK, there has not been a worrying surge in the number of unemployed people, thanks in large part to the large-scale public employment subsidy program. The vacation plan will be phased out in the summer before the end of September this year.

Another survey showed that British employers have been the most optimistic about recruitment since 2013, and the base salary is expected to increase from 1% to 2% in the next 12 months.

A survey of more than 1,000 employers by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development also found that layoff intentions have returned to pre-pandemic levels.

CIPD senior labor market consultant Gerwyn Davies (Gerwyn Davies) said: “Although this quarter’s survey shows optimism, but this strong employment growth is still likely to weaken in 2021.”