The European Employment Services (EURES) network confirmed on 26 November that its Czech-language portal was offline from 17:45 to 22:30 CET on 23 November because of emergency maintenance. During that window, employers and job-seekers were unable to post vacancies, search CVs or download mobility-guidance documents—effectively freezing one of Czechia’s busiest cross-border recruitment channels just as HR teams were finalising 2026 graduate programmes and Blue-Card pipelines.
EURES initially described the incident as routine, but ministry insiders say the downtime was triggered by a failed database migration linked to the upcoming EU-wide EURES2 platform. Further intermittent outages remain possible before year-end.
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Talent-acquisition managers who missed the maintenance alert are now scrambling to identify candidate registrations that may have failed mid-upload and to repost critical vacancies. Legal departments are urging mobility teams to document the outage in case processing delays cause firms to miss statutory posting deadlines.
Practical advice: companies running tight Blue-Card or intra-company-transfer (ICT) calendars should back up job descriptions locally and schedule duplicate posts on private Czech job boards until the EURES upgrade stabilises.
EURES initially described the incident as routine, but ministry insiders say the downtime was triggered by a failed database migration linked to the upcoming EU-wide EURES2 platform. Further intermittent outages remain possible before year-end.
Talent-acquisition managers who missed the maintenance alert are now scrambling to identify candidate registrations that may have failed mid-upload and to repost critical vacancies. Legal departments are urging mobility teams to document the outage in case processing delays cause firms to miss statutory posting deadlines.
Practical advice: companies running tight Blue-Card or intra-company-transfer (ICT) calendars should back up job descriptions locally and schedule duplicate posts on private Czech job boards until the EURES upgrade stabilises.
