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  • The most sought after jobs in Romania

    The most sought after jobs in Romania

    The most wanted jobs in Romania are in crisis-proof fields
    such as sales, bookkeeping, engineering, IT and production, says a survey on a certain
    recruitment platform. At the same time many Romanians, over 40%, are interested
    in jobs where the salary is explicitly posted in the announcements. Most
    applications have been filled in domains that are constantly looking for
    employees, with a good number of offers where salaries grow by the year.




    So the most attractive domain is that of sales, which
    also has the largest job offer in Romania with salaries between 400 and 600
    euros for salesmen and between 1400 – 1800 for managers. Wages for accountants
    and financial advisors are ranging between 800 and 1100 Euros, while expert
    accountants can get up to two thousand Euros. Engineers are getting salaries
    between 12 hundred and 18 hundred Euros according to their area and level of
    expertise, less than IT workers whose average wages are somewhere around three
    thousand Euros depending on their skills and area of expertise.




    The aforementioned recruitment platform has over 14 hundred
    jobs for civil constructions engineers in Bucharest and other major cities. Besides
    salaries, the employers are offering regular bonuses, private medical insurances,
    meal vouchers and free transportation. According to the representatives of the
    aforementioned recruitment platform, in the past years Romania has registered a
    significant growth in the field of civil construction, mainly fueled by
    infrastructure investment, the construction of new real estate and restoration
    projects.


    As for the IT field, the platform has 375 jobs
    available also including remote working. Another growing field is production,
    where employees can get up to 800 Euros monthly pay, whereas management and
    coordination positions can get between 900 and 13 hundred Euros.




    In the past three years, experts believe, the need for
    qualified personnel in the fields of construction, IT and Telecommunications,
    as well as medicine has seen a significant growth.




    In another development, even if statistics show that
    four out of ten Romanians are getting the minimum wage, recruitment experts say
    that Romania offers jobs with monthly salaries up to 7 thousand Euros.
    According to them there are employees paid as much as their counterparts in
    Germany or France and if many Romanians chose to leave the country a couple of
    years ago for better-paid jobs abroad, the situation has changed of late.
    According to data released by recruitment agencies, in the first months of the
    year, employers have published over 160 thousand new job offers for which they
    have registered 4.4 million applications. 84% were for jobs in various offices
    around the country, whereas the others were remote or jobs abroad.

    (bill)

  • Record-high number of employees in Romania

    Record-high number of employees in Romania


    Romania seems to have reached the privileged scenario in which economic developments are disconnected from political influences. Over the 16 years since the country joined the European Union, it has had as many as 11 prime ministers, most of whom set out to revolutionise the countrys economic and social policies. But governmental instability, legislative inconsistency and the lack of inspiration that accompanied these policies have more often than not disrupted the labour market.



    Today, it seems to have finally stabilised, and Romania currently has nearly 6.7 million employment contracts registered in the national employee registry (REVISAL), 16% more than last year and a record for the past decade.



    Against a reduced overall population of 19 million, according to the preliminary results of the latest census, the number of employees is the largest in the last 10 years, the labour minister Marius Budăi also announced on his Facebook page.



    The most employees, over 1 million per sector, are reported in the processing industry and trade, followed by constructions, transport and logistics, with about half a million each.



    According to the labour minister, the REVISAL does not include certain categories of workers, which are nonetheless covered in the statistics put together by the National Tax Agency. This includes civil servants, military personnel or judiciary staff. The public sector remains the most important employer in Romania.



    The number of jobs filled in public institutions and authorities last year was 1,280,000, and 64% of them were in the central public administration, according to data made public by the finance ministry. More than 600,000 people were working in institutions fully funded from the state budget. The largest number of such jobs, 300,000, was in public education, followed by the Interior Ministry-over 125,000 and the Defence Ministry-nearly 75,000. The Health Ministry has 18,000 employees. And over 460,000 people were working in local public administration in November 2022.



    The year 2022, the mass media in Bucharest concluded, was quite intense for the Romanian employees and employers. Recruitment skyrocketed to a level above pre-COVID-19 figures, and human resources experts say this year companies will continue to compete fiercely over personnel.



    In their plans for 2023, employers remain cautious with respect to new recruitment and to salary increases, but one thing is certain: they have to keep their employees close, to give them balance and a sense of purpose, experts also explained. (AMP)


  • The labour market in Romania in 2022

    The labour market in Romania in 2022

    Looking back at the labour market in 2022, recruitment specialists say it’s been a good year, in terms of job opportunities. Actually, only those who did not want to, did not work, despite the energy crisis and the issues triggered by the war in Ukraine.



    In late March, for example, the National Employment Agency registered 230.3 thousand unemployed people, the unemployment rate then being 2.64%. Quite low, if we think that job offers increased practically from month to month. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate increased slightly, reaching 2.96% in October 2022. The recruitment platform ejobs, for example, registered the largest number of posted jobs in the last twenty years. Ana Călugăru, Head of Communications at ejobs, has more:



    2022 was the best year so far for the job market, and when we say best we mean primarily the number of opportunities that appeared on the market for candidates. It was the year with the largest number of jobs in the last 20 years, that is, approximately 420,000 jobs were posted on ejobs.ro from the beginning of the year until now. The fields with the most open positions are retail, services, food industry, tourism, call-center, BPO (Business Process Outsourcing – outsourced services) and transport logistics. In terms of applications, most candidates have submitted their CVs for retail, call-center, BPO, IT, telecom, services and banking jobs. More than 10 million applications were registered during this year. The skills most sought by employers were, with a fairly large increase for this year, digital skills, but we are not talking about an exclusive skills segment. Candidates from absolutely all professional fields, at all levels of experience and for all fields were sought in 2022.



    It was undoubtedly the year of the candidates. They contributed to the fine tuning of the labor market. People became more selective and knew what to ask for. The criteria for looking for a job were divided into many categories – from the working atmosphere, to how safe the building they work in is or how far it is from home. Not only the salary was decisive. This made it difficult for recruiters, who no longer found people so easily. Ana Călugaru:



    It was a year, let’s say, somewhat more difficult for recruiters, because it was not so easy to find people for the positions they had open for 2021 and even for 2020, but the fact that so many new jobs appeared in the market shows that it was a good year for companies, after all, because businesses went to full speed.



    It’s interesting to observe how the dynamics of the labor market change, sometimes radically. We have witnessed, say recruitment specialists, truly unexpected twists and turns. This subtle exercise of power tipped the balance in favor of the candidates, but experts now expect something else. Here is what Ana Călugăru predicts:



    If we talk about the employee-employer dynamic, yes, it has changed. Unfortunately, in the last two to three years, we are seeing very sharp 180-degree turns and a cyclicality with a fairly short turnaround time. If in 2019 it was a candidate’s market, in 2020 it became an employer’s market, in 2021 it started to become a candidate’s market again and in 2022 it was exclusively a candidate’s market. Economic signals, somehow, make us believe that 2023 will tilt the balance a bit in favor of companies. These things are not necessarily very good signals for the market, because any movement of this kind creates imbalances that affect one or the other.



    After the pandemic, many companies called their people back to the office. After the experience of working remotely, few expected it. The happiest were those who managed to negotiate a hybrid way of working, as Ana Călugaru told us:



    Regarding remote jobs, yes, 2022 was a year when companies called their people back to the office, but not to the extent we expected. At the level of 2022, 7.3% of the total number of posted jobs, respectively 30,000, were still remote jobs. We see, however, that towards the end of the year the number of jobs that can be done from home began to decrease, a sign that 2023 will be a year in which we will already see a massive and perhaps even definitive return to office.



    In 2022, candidates were much more active in looking for new professional opportunities compared to 2021, applying, on average, to 6 jobs per month, twice as many as in 2021, according to the data provided by another online recruitment platform, BestJobs Romania. Moreover, the total number of candidates was 62% higher in 2022 compared to the previous year. Among the candidates who completed their CV on this platform, 54% mentioned at least one previous professional experience. 35% of them specified at least one foreign language among their knowledge and 14% that they had a driver’s license. Almost half (47%) wanted to be contacted by recruiters with job offers, even if they were not actively looking for a job, and 5% were willing to relocate for the new job. 98% of the candidates stated that they wanted to know the salary or salary range for the job they were applying for, and most of them applied mainly for jobs with the salary disclosed. (MI)