“Around 200 of the 300 entry-level jobs we have can be filled by youths with no experience on the labor market,” says Crina Ilie, recruitment and training manager for Europe at Genpact.
Most of the vacant jobs are for the Bucharest office, where Genpact has over 1,500 employees. For the second services center in Romania the company does not plan to hire more than 50 people by the end of the year, says Ilie.
In her opinion, though the company’s current job offer is more than sufficient, especially for a labor market where inexperienced young people can hardly find a job, the jobs are hard to fill also as candidates have much higher salary expectations compared with their training.
The net salary of a Genpact employee starts from RON1,400 per month and can go as high as RON2,700-3,000 for employees managing more complex processes or those who can speak rare foreign languages, according to ZF’s latest information.
Outsourcing companies have emerged as the biggest employers in the crisis, with the number of outsourcing employees being currently put at 20,000-30,000, on a market valued at around half a billion euros.
Genpact is one of the companies that have expanded the most in recent years, hiring almost 1,000 people since late 2012 until now. As a matter of fact, the company this June signed a contract for the renting of another 3,000 square meters in Cluj and rented a new space in Bucharest to turn it into a development hub for employees across Europe.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)