In 2024, the number of vacancies for Russian specialists in Cyprus increased by 160.9% to 12,000 from 4.6,000 in 2023.
By the way, the island state ranked 8th among the countries actively attracting workers from Russia.
The leader of the ranking was Belarus (172.3 thousand), followed by Kazakhstan (150.9 thousand) and Georgia (69.7 thousand). The top ten also included: Turkey (67.8k), the United Arab Emirates (41.7k), Uzbekistan (57.2k), China (27.6k), Serbia (26.3k), Cyprus (12k) and Poland (9k).
In general, Russians are more often invited to work abroad: in 2024, foreign companies sent 769 thousand invitations to job seekers from the Russian Federation to apply for open positions. This is 33.6% more than in 2022, when the country experienced the largest wave of emigration since the collapse of the USSR, according to the job search service HeadHunter.
At the same time, some countries have started to invite Russians less frequently. These are Azerbaijan (38% decrease over the year - from 13.8 k to 8.6 k), Armenia (-24% - from 13.3 k to 10.1 k), Georgia (-20% - from 87.3 k to 69.7 k) and Kazakhstan (-11% - from 169.5 k to 150.9 k).
The leading destinations for Russian specialists remained Belarus (22% of the total number of invitations), Kazakhstan (20%), Georgia (9%), Turkey (9%) and Uzbekistan (7%). At the same time, demand for Russian labour increased particularly strongly in China (almost sixfold, from 4.8 thousand to 27.6 thousand), Serbia (+356.3%), Cyprus (+160.9%), Poland (+119.6%) and the United Arab Emirates (+117.2%).
Most in demand abroad are sales and customer service managers (13% of all vacancies), programmers and developers (10%), call centre operators (5%), designers, marketing managers, internet marketers, artists (4% each), teachers, SMM managers, content managers (3% each), and secretaries, executive assistants, assistants, technical support specialists and testers (2% each).