Why Workuro?
Because a job in Europe should not cost you a year of savings, and being found should not depend on who you happen to know.
The problem is not that Europe has no work.
Employers across Europe are short of welders, drivers, carers, nurses and builders, and say so publicly every year. The work exists. What stands between it and the people who can do it is the way workers are found: through agencies, through fees, and through people who know people.
Agencies charge workers. We never do.
Migrant workers routinely pay recruitment fees to get a job abroad - upfront payments, deductions from wages, charges for documents that should cost nothing. The International Labour Organization's own fair recruitment principle is that the worker should pay no fees at all, and it exists because so many do. Workuro charges workers nothing, for anything, ever. Employers pay to search the register. That is the whole business.
One profile, every country in Europe.
Instead of applying to hundreds of advertisements in languages you may not read, you write one profile. It sits in a register built for the employers who hire from outside Europe: German factories, Norwegian care homes, Dutch greenhouses, Polish building sites.
Your details stay yours.
Your phone number and email are not published. An employer sees your trade, your experience and where you want to work, and can ask to be introduced. You can edit your profile, export everything you have given us in one click, or delete it entirely, the same day, without asking anybody.
Fair by design, not by promise.
Every profile appears in employer searches on the same terms. There is no paid placement and no hidden ranking: a welder from Georgia and a nurse from the Philippines are ordered by how well they match the search, not by what anyone paid. The figures in your dashboard are counted from real employer activity and are never rounded up.
We will not promise you a job.
No register can. What we can do is put you in front of the people who are hiring, tell you honestly what a work permit actually involves in the country you are asking about, and warn you about the scams that follow this industry everywhere. If a site promises you a visa or a guaranteed job in exchange for money, that is the sign to walk away.
What changes
| Through an agency | Through Workuro | |
|---|---|---|
| What the worker pays | Fees, deductions, 'processing costs' | Nothing, ever |
| Who holds your documents | Often the agency | You |
| Who the employer talks to | The agency | You |
| What happens if you say no | You may lose what you paid | Nothing. You choose who to answer |
| Leaving | Contracts, notice, lost fees | Delete your profile, same day |
What is actually in the register
Counted from active profiles at the moment you loaded this page, not estimated and not rounded.
How to tell a real offer from a scam
- Nobody legitimate asks you to pay for a job offer, a visa, or a place on a list.
- A real employer can name the company, the town and the job. A scammer talks only about money and speed.
- A work permit is issued by a government, never by an agent. You can check the rules yourself on the country's own website.
- If you are asked to send documents or money through a personal account or a messaging app, stop.
Where to check this yourself
We would rather you did not take our word for any of it. These are the primary sources, not ours.
- EURES, the European Job Mobility PortalThe European Commission's own report on which occupations are short of workers in which member states.
- Eurostat: job vacancy statisticsThe official vacancy rate across the EU, by country and by industry, updated every quarter.
- International Labour Organization: fair recruitmentThe principle that workers should never pay recruitment fees, and what employers are asked to do instead.
- European Commission: legal migration and work permitsThe Single Permit and the EU Blue Card, explained by the institution that issues the rules.