Covering careers, hiring or relocation in the UK and Europe? This page gives you downloadable data briefings, our reference data on European work-visa salary thresholds, and quotable expert comment. Every figure carries a primary source and a date.
Data briefings built to be used fast: the headline number, a liftable quote and the key findings up front — full narrative, corrections table and reference data in the appendices. Every number verified against the primary source before publication, including corrections to figures widely misreported elsewhere. Free to cite with attribution.
The OECD, LinkedIn and the Bank of England say the slowdown is mostly the economy — but Stanford, King’s College London and a Swedish natural experiment show AI redistributing opportunity away from the youngest workers. Both sides, ruled on page by page, all primary sources.
Useful if you’re writing about: the AI jobs debate, graduate hiring, the entry-level squeeze, tech careers.
140 applications per graduate vacancy, time-to-hire doubled to 8 weeks, 61% of employers catching undisclosed AI in interviews — plus the EU AI Act timeline, the ICO’s findings, and what still converts.
Useful if you’re writing about: AI in recruitment, application overload, hiring fraud, the return of in-person interviews.
84% of UK Gen Z want leadership eventually; 73% are anxious about their prospects. “Job hugging”, a shrinking graduate premium and £53k of debt — with a stereotype-vs-data table and a methodology critique of the viral surveys.
Useful if you’re writing about: Gen Z at work, youth anxiety about careers, “job hugging”, any generational workplace claim.
Net migration 171,000, work visas −59% from peak — yet a record 127,000 sponsor licences and record UCAS demand. The dated timeline separating what’s in force, what’s legislated, and what’s only proposed.
Useful if you’re writing about: UK immigration policy, skilled-worker visas, international students, employer sponsorship.
16.2% — not the misreported 14.7% — and one million NEET for the first time in 13 years. Why the UK lags wealthy Europe, the scarring evidence, a 15-country map, and a corrections desk for the five errors circulating in coverage.
Useful if you’re writing about: youth unemployment, NEETs, apprenticeships, UK-vs-Europe labour market comparisons.
Maintained reference material, not one-off research — refreshed monthly and whenever the official figures change.
The minimum salary for every main skilled-worker route and EU Blue Card, verified against official government sources — with methodology, effective dates, ECB currency conversions and a public update log.
Covers Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Available in English and Russian.
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Named, quotable expert comment — with the data to back it up and real casework behind it. Our consultants have relocated internationally themselves and work with candidates across 29 countries.
We publish new data briefings every month. Writing about one of these topics and want the numbers pulled together? Email us and we’ll prioritise it.
Per-country data cuts, visa rules in plain English, and anonymised observations from our casework.
Email usEP Advisory is a London-based career consultancy for international professionals moving to and within the UK, Europe and the Gulf. Its team of 50+ consultants — most of whom have relocated internationally themselves — supports candidates one-to-one with CVs, LinkedIn, interviews, salary negotiation and visa routes. The firm also runs EDGE, a career platform where members follow structured training, track applications with a Chrome extension, practise interviews with AI feedback and build an Edge Score measuring job-search readiness. EP Advisory has supported 5,000+ professionals across 29 countries and publishes 200+ guides, including a 16-country index of official work-visa salary thresholds.
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