12.05.2021
WHAT COMPANIES ARE LOOKING FOR WORKERS
The positive trend in job advertisements in all industries is preserved, as their total number already reaches the levels from before the beginning of the Covid crisis in our country, according to the current monthly analysis of the company for complex HR services JobTiger.
If we compare with the data for March 2021, the growth of job offers in April is 21%, and if we take as a starting point the situation from a year ago (April 2020), then job offers in April 2021 are by 155% more. Thus, we already have a leveling of the published job offers in Bulgaria with those from the period before the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the authors of the analysis comment.
After the resumption of the activity of the food and entertainment establishments and with the approach of the summer, logically, the leader in the search for new staff is the sector "Hotel and restaurant business". In it, the new job advertisements in April were almost twice as high (growth of 95%) compared to the previous month of March.
We remind you that in March the demand for staff in the industry remained unchanged compared to February, despite the imposed lockdown. The most offered positions in the sector in April were for kitchen staff and service staff (waiters).
Since the beginning of this year, the trend in new job offers in all sectors has remained permanently positive. The March 2021 lockdown did not have the devastating effect of finding new staff, as it did with the first March-April 2020 lockdown.
The reasons for this, according to the analysis, are the adaptation of business to work in the conditions of COVID-19, the restored activities of catering and entertainment facilities, the approaching tourist season and, last but not least, the continuing economic growth in a number of sectors (IT, Outsourcing, Trade and sales, etc.).
There is still an increase in ads in all sectors. After the leading sector "Hotels and restaurants" (where the number of ads has grown, as we said, almost doubled), in second place is "Trade and Sales" with 21% growth, and in third place - "Administrative activities" with 13.4% growth. They are followed by the sectors "Logistics and Transport" (growth 12.8%), "Production" (growth 10%) and "Accounting, Auditing, Finance" (growth 9%).
In terms of share distribution, the Trade and Sales sector is still in first place - with 21% of the total number of proposals published in April. As a result of its large growth, the hotel and restaurant sector moved from fourth to second place - with a 20% share of all ads.
After them, the share distribution remains, as in the previous month of March, with the sector "Production", occupying 14% of the ads, followed by the sectors "IT" (12%), "Logistics and Transport" (9.3%), "Administrative activities" (8.8%), "Construction" (5%), "Accounting, audit, finance" (4%), "Health and pharmacy" (3.2%), "Marketing and advertising" (3%) and Art (1%).
Distribution of new proposals by cities
In each of the leading regional cities the growth of the announcements in April compared to March is double-digit, as follows: Sofia - 15%; Plovdiv - 14%; Varna - 33%; Burgas - 39%; Ruse - 27% and Stara Zagora - 18%.
The number of published job vacancies for these cities is equal to 70% of job offers across the country.
The positive trend in the search for new staff in our country since the beginning of the year draws an optimistic forecast for the coming months. The expectations of the ads are expected to remain within these limits, without risks of sudden declines, the authors of the analysis predict.
