Over 150,000 new jobs were posted, in the first half of the year, on eJobs.ro. Almost 40,000 of these came from retail employers, who continue to have the greatest need for staff in Romania. Services were the second largest employer in the first half of the year, with the call center / BPO industry in third place. The food industry, tourism, construction, manufacturing and transport / logistics are the next areas in the ranking.
“For the first half of the year, we see a hierarchy dominated by those sectors that massively recruit from the entry level segment. All the fields mentioned have mainly entry level positions in the organizational chart. Somewhat lower in the ranking are the fields that rather recruit specialists or candidates with a high level of seniority, such as IT / telecom, financial services, medical services or advertising / marketing / PR”, says Bogdan Badea, CEO of eJos.ro.
The trend shown at the beginning of the year in connection with remote jobs was maintained until the end of June, so that a disproportion between the desire of employers to call employees to the office and the desire of candidates to work remotely is increasingly evident. Thus, of the 150,000 new jobs, only 4.2% were remote, the percentage being lower even than the one related to the jobs posted by employers outside the country (7.8% of the total number of jobs were for abroad ). The most willing to offer the benefit of remote work are the employers in the call center / BPO, IT / telecom, services, trade / retail and advertising / marketing / PR. Entry level candidates are predominantly sought for these positions. 80% of the jobs put on the market since January so far are full time, 15% are part time and about 5% are project based and seasonal.
“Most of the seasonal jobs come from foreign employers looking for candidates for sectors such as tourism, hospitality, the food industry or construction, especially in the warm season, when they have a peak of activity. Most jobs outside the country are for Germany, the Netherlands, Greece, France, Italy, Spain and Ireland,” says Bogdan Badea.
Despite the increasing trend of employers to reduce or even eliminate the number of days worked remotely and call employees back to the office, candidates continue to be interested in remote jobs. In this sense, 13.4% of all applications went to jobs that allow work from home. They are not as tempted by the options they have outside the country, given that only 1.4% of applications were sent to foreign employers.
“For this first half of the year, we continue to see a significant number of applications from the 18-24 age group, who remain the second most active category of candidates, but are no longer at an almost imperceptible distance from those who they are between 25 and 35 years old. In other words, we have 2.1 million applications from the 25-35-year-old category and 1.5 from the 18-24-year-old category”, explains Bogdan Badea. Next are the candidates who are between 36 and 45 years old, those over 45 years old and those who have not yet turned 18 but have the right to work, i.e. they are at least 16 years old.
The areas that attracted the most applications were retail, call center / BPO, services, IT / telecom, financial services, construction, transport / logistics and tourism.