Romanian employers are facing the most significant shortage of labour in the world, reveals a survey by Manpower, the biggest global personnel leasing company, which analysed 32 countries.
The local labour market is the global hotspot this year in terms of labour shortages, after 73% of companies stated that they were unable to find any skilled personnel for the positions they offer.
Romania, which was included in the Manpower survey for the first time, is now faced with the most pessimistic situation in terms of personnel shortage, which is even more serious considering almost half of the companies on the domestic market (43%) intend to hire more people over the coming period.
"The shortage of skills needs to be correlated with the need for people. In terms of hiring plans we are number one in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region and number two in the world. When the need for more people increases, it becomes more difficult to find specialised people for the respective jobs," says Camelia Stanculescu, general manager of Manpower Romania.
Next in the ranking, ten percent behind, is Japan where 63% of employers say they are having trouble finding people, followed by Hong Kong - 61%, Singapore - 57% and Australia - 52%.
Almost one third of the employers in the world (31%) have trouble finding suitable candidates for their vacancies, but the good news is that this percentage is down almost 10% from last year. The most sought after employees on the domestic market are engineers, skilled workers and managers.
Engineers' salaries reached as much as over 1,000 euros a month over the last few years, and in certain fields, such as IT&C they may go up to as much as 2,500 euros. In terms of top management, a CEO of a multinational makes at least 10,000 euros per month.
As for skilled construction workers, they ma
