“Though we had spectacular turnover growth last year, of 78%, we have incredibly upbeat signals from the market for this year as well. For 2022, we target 20% turnover growth,” says Bogdan Badea, eJobs CEO.
According to him, in 2021 eJobs also expanded its market share, coming to hold over 60% of the local online recruitment market.
eJobs data points to a strong start of the year for the recruitment market. Thus, in January alone more than 37,000 jobs were published on eJobs.ro, up 61% against January 2021. Also, the job offering is 29% higher against January 2020.
The fields that listed the biggest number of jobs in January 2022 were retail, services, transport/logistics, production, call center-BPO and IT&C.
The highest number of hiring offerings came from Bucharest companies in January 2022, with over 16.000 jobs. Next came Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Brasov, Iasi, Constanta and Sibiu.
At the same time, January 2022 is the best month in eJobs Romania’s 22-year history in terms of revenues and the first one when the 1,000-mark was overshot in terms of the number of new companies in a single month.
Another significant increase was registered in terms of the number of remote jobs.
“As regards the number of applications, we also notice a return to the pre-pandemic level. We ended January 2022 with 1 million applications, down from last year, but still above January 2020. It’s absolutely clear the battle for talent is gaining steam, that the classic recruitment tools are no longer enough and we are about to see an ever rising number of companies resorting to smart recruitment and complex recruitment campaigns to attract candidates,” says Bogdan Badea.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)