The Local

The launch of the ‘EU Talent Pool’ has moved a step closer. It will be the first digital platform that will match vacancies in shortage occupations in EU countries with non-EU jobseekers. ...

For 20 years, Grammy-nominated duo Zeneba Bowers and Matt Walker played for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. That was until they decided to move to Italy on self-employment visas in 2019. ...

Italy is among the European countries struggling with 'brain waste', a situation where immigrants struggle to find suitable full-time work or are overqualified for their roles due to their education not being recognised. ...

The creation of a common EU Talent Pool platform, in which non-EU nationals can register their profiles and find jobs across the 27 member states, has moved a step closer to reality. ...

In this week's Inside Italy we see why no amount of positive employment figures mean the Italian job market is really thriving, and how Silvio Berlusconi continues to dominate Italian politics from beyond the grave… ...

Jailbirds in northe Italy will soon be able to offer judges a sweetener -- though serving up an extra smooth cappuccino is unlikely to be enough to get time off their sentences. The coffee shop in the courthouse of Turin is seeking baristas with an unusual professional background: prisoners or former prisoners looking for a way to pay their debt to society or start afresh. The city ...

Online clothes retailer Zalando is looking to build on its presence in Italy with a new warehouse to serve the region. Zalando, which specializes in selling clothes, aounced it will build a new logistics warehouse somewhere in northe Italy in 2018 that could create up to 1,000 new jobs in the coming years. Italy has a become key scale-up market for the Berlin-bo start up which is now worth over €10 billion and employs more than 13,000 people worldwide, according to company spokesman Matteo Bovio. "We started operation in a satellite warehouse in Italy last year (located in Stradella, Pav...

Chief executive of Italian bank Monte Paschi di Siena (BMPS) Marco Morelli. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPItaly's troubled bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS) said on Wednesday that it would close nearly a third of its branches and axe around a fifth of its workforce just a day after the EU approved a...

One lucky person will get to direct Miramare Castle in Trieste. Photo: Alessandro CaproniSome 390 people have applied to head up nine of Italy’s museums and archaeological sites as part of a plan to revive Italy’s lesser-known cultural treasures. The cultural ministry launched the inteational search in May for directors to lead sites including Rome’s National Etruscan Museum and Trieste’s Historical Museum of the Castle of Miramare. Out of the 309 who have applied, 26 are foreign or have dual citizenship, the ministry said on Monday, while 201 are women and 189 are men. A team of experts will now make a preliminary shortlist of no more than 10 candidates per job, with a final decision on the...