All over Europe, governments are mulling measures to make their countries less attractive to potential asylum seekers.
Of course, sentiment alone will not necessarily be enough to lure potential job seekers to Spencer Stuart's site and persuade them to sign up.
Denmark also recently introduced more stringent border controls, forcing more potential asylum seekers back to Germany, which took in about 1.1 million last year.
Typically, there is a surge in unemployment in July as young people out of school seek work, but bad economic news may have discouraged some potential job seekers, said James P. Brown, an analyst with the Labor Department.
A spokesman for Liberty, a major British civil liberties and human rights group, said that if potential asylum seekers were prevented from even entering Britain, they would never be able to ask for asylum.
The goal, according to the secretary of education, Arne Duncan, is to "help potential degree seekers better understand which schools they can afford to attend and how much debt they will have to take on to get a degree".
But in the face of vast numbers of potential asylum-seekers, all sides have found it easier to fight over local shelter policy than to address the overwhelming problems in the Mediterranean and north Africa.
The rhetoric surrounding the proposed legislation, reinforcing the position that those who arrive by boat will never be allowed into Australia, is seen by the government as vital "messaging" to potential asylum seekers in the region who might be willing to consider a boat journey to Australia.
Now, a new crop of potential job seekers has emerged, one full of people who, for whatever reason, do not seem as eager to switch jobs as their older siblings once were, said Steve Zales, president of the Spencer Stuart Talent Network, an Internet-based offshoot of Spencer Stuart, the privately held concern that is one of the largest executive search firms in the world.
Innovation is an incredibly valuable, precious trade secret – not exactly the kind of thing you're going to grab a megaphone and announce to an overflowing conference that's packed to the rafters with both acolytes, potential job-seekers and, of course, the competition.
