The share of Romanian employers reporting difficulties in filling vacant jobs fell by 14 percentage points compared with last year, when employers ranked 7th globally as regards the talent shortage perception, but continues to be above the global average and the EMEA region average, by 4 percentage points, according to “2014 Talent Shortage Survey”.
In Romania, the top 10 jobs employers are having difficulty filling include skilled trades, engineers, sales representatives, production operators/machine operators, IT managers /IT project managers / IT directors, laborers, IT staff, project managers, sales managers, accounting & finance staff.
In the last seven years, skilled trades and engineers constantly alternated on the top two positions, while IT Managers /IT Project Managers entered the top this year.
Compared with 2013, employees report difficulty filling jobs not only as IT Managers /IT Project Managers / IT Directors (ranking fifth in the top ten) but also as IT staff (ranking seventh).
This year, sales representatives ranked sixth instead of third among positions hardest to fill, while the position of sale manager returned to top ten (ranking ninth) for the first time since 2011.
Employers surveyed said talented employees are hard to find mainly because of shortage of technical skills and abilities among applicants (54%), lack of available candidates on the market (30%), and the lack of experience (21%).
According to 40% of the employers, talent shortage impacts the companies’ capacity to serve the clients, while the impact over capacity is very high, 19% of employers say.