Thousands of job seekers are expected to attend a major overseas jobs fair at the RDS in Dublin this weekend – the second such event in a fortnight.

The Working Abroad Expo will include over 70 recruiters and employers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the Middle East.

It comes on foot of yesterday’s announcement that the number of Canadian working holiday visas is to be doubled to almost eleven thousand in 2014.

Spokesperson for the British Columbia Construction Association, Padraig Yeates, says it’s becoming easier for Irish people to get work in Canada: