“We are having a problem with the young work force because we are seeing a decline, which is not about competencies but about them no longer having that thing that used to drive their development potential and came from the good education their schools gave them. The cause for this is definitely the poor performance of the educational system,” said Roxana Tesiu, who supervises the human resources policies for the about 800 employees of Wipro in its Timisoara and Bucharest centers.
“The young people acquire the competencies they need on the job after being included in professional training programs but to develop they need to know how to learn and they are out of practice now.”
Recruiting candidates with a high development potential is not only a problem in Romania, but also in the Central and Eastern Europe, and finding them takes longer, as well.
A total of 20,000 people are working in outsourcing in Romania, a EUR500 million business, according to a KPMG survey.
Wipro Technologies is one of the largest providers of outsourcing services in the world and posted EUR23 million revenue in Romania last year, 5% more than in 2011 and net profit of EUR4.2 million, according to its filing with the Finance Ministry.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)