18.03.2024
JOB ADVERTISEMENTS IN OUR COUNTRY CONTINUE TO GROW
The number of job advertisements in our country continues to grow in almost all sectors, according to the monthly analysis of the HR company and career site "JobTiger".
In February, a growth of 4 percent (1,700 offers more) was recorded compared to the previous January. Year-on-year decline is still reported. The offers are 7 percent (about 3,100) less compared to the same period in 2023, the company said.
Characteristic for this period of the year, there is an increased offers of work in the "Hospitality and restaurant industry" sector - there are 1,200 more advertisements compared to January - an increase of 22 percent. After him in terms of growth in offers are the sectors "Trade and sales" (450 offers more, 4 percent growth), "Construction" (230 offers more, 10 percent growth) and "Administrative and service activities" (190 offers more, 4 percent growth).
The sectors with the biggest drop in offers are "Manufacturing" (370 offers less, 6 percent drop), "Healthcare and Pharmacy" (220 offers less, 9 percent drop) and "Accounting, Audit, Finance" (120 fewer offers, a 5 percent drop).
The sectors "Logistics and Transport", "Production", "Marketing and Advertising" and IT remain unchanged - the number of advertisements in them is at the same level as in January.
On an annual basis, growth is reported in the sectors "Healthcare and pharmacy" (12 percent), "Administrative and service activities" (5 percent), "Trade and sales" (3 percent), "Construction" (2 percent) and "Marketing and advertising" (0.2 percent).
Share distribution
According to the analysis of "Job Tiger", the sector with the largest share of advertisements in February is "Trade and Sales" (24 percent). Due to the increased job offer, the "Hospitality and restaurant industry" sector (16 percent) displaces the "Manufacturing" sector (15 percent) from second place, followed by: "Administrative and service activities" (12 percent), "Logistics and transport" (10 percent), IT (8 percent), "Construction" (6 percent), "Health care and pharmacy" (5.2 percent), "Accounting, auditing, finance" (5.1 percent hundred), "Marketing and Advertising" (3 percent) and "Art" (1 percent).
Work from home
A slight increase of 2 percent was reported in the offers for work from home and/or remote work, and as a share of the total number of ads, this type of offer accounted for 9 percent of the offer in February.
The distribution of this type of offer by sector is as follows: 50 percent in the IT sector, followed by "Administrative and service activities" (19 percent), the outsourcing (BPO) industry sectors (16 percent) and "Trade and sales" (8 percent).
Offers by cities
A positive trend is observed in the leading regional cities, according to the survey. The number of advertisements has changed as follows: Sofia (+1 per cent), Plovdiv (+4 per cent), Varna (+11 per cent), Burgas (+11 per cent) and Stara Zagora (+3 per cent) . The number of proposals in Ruse remains the same as in January.
As for share distribution in Sofia, the ads are 43 percent, and in the other cities they are as follows: Plovdiv (10 percent), Varna (9 percent), Burgas (4 percent), Ruse (3 percent) and Stara Zagora (3 percent).
A Job Tiger analysis released in early February showed a rise in job offers across all sectors in January 2024. The total number of adverts was up 37 per cent (11,200 more adverts) compared to December 2023. On an annual basis basis, a 10 percent drop was reported, with job advertisements being nearly 4,500 fewer than in January 2023. For January, the company also reported the first monthly increase in offers in the IT sector for the last 12 months.
