The companies' demand for workers, on the job market, grows, with no sign in sight that supply interested workforce will meet it soon.
The companies' demand for workers, on the job market, grows, with no sign in sight that supply interested workforce will meet it soon. A few hours after the opening of the jobs fair in Bucharest, there were more employers in the hall than job seekers. The representatives of the companies were bored to death with waiting for interested potential employees, while the latter did the tour of the hall carefully noting down the salaries and benefits and picking and choosing for the companies making the highest offers. Employers in Bucharest were in search of a wide range of professions: security agents, shop assistants, accountants, office workers, receptionists, insurance workers, pharmacists, architects, translators, seamstresses, locksmiths, welders, painters, mechanics, buss boys, carpenters, demolition workers or ironing ladies. Many salaries offered jumped above the 2,000 lei mark, and companies were offering a lot of other benefits, like health insurance, lunch, lunch tickets or free transportation. For instance, a security company asked potential employees no previous experience and was providing a 1,500 lei net salary, free transportation, lunch tickets and hefty bonuses on Christmas and Easter. While the salary for an accountant with only one year of experience on the job was negotiated from 2,000 lei onwards. The job seekers at the jobs fair this year were half in number as compared with last year, at only 1,100 people. “This goes to show that the supply deficit on the Bucharest work market is growing from one year to the next,” said Dumitru Pelican, director of the Agency for Work Placement in Bucharest, Paul Pacuraru, the minister for Work, Equality of Chances and Family, visited the jobs fair and
