“We will continue to hire in 2012, though not at same pace. The biggest challenge of next year remains the battle to retain talent on a market that is so dynamic; key employees are those involved in the management of the projects,” said Dana Bichir, vice-president of Human Resources & Quality of Siveco Romania.

A young college graduate who takes a job with the company gets a EUR500 to EUR700 net salary. The benefits package offered to employees also includes payment by seniority: the people who have been with the company for at least three years get a 13th salary every year, and those who have been working there for more than 15 years get 4 monthly salaries per year on top of their normal pay.

Siveco, whose rivals are Teamnet and Totalsoft, posted almost EUR55 million sales last year, up 7% on the previous year, according to the data on the Finance Ministry’s website.