09.06.2021

THE COMPANIES IN OUR COUNTRY ARE LOOKING FOR WORKERS, NOT BOSSES

At the beginning of May, the labor market calmed down, which was not a surprise because of the Easter holidays and the related weekends. However, after the recovery of the working rhythm, the number of ads from companies looking for new staff began to grow rapidly and in the last week of May offers increased by 25% and exceeded the level of published ads before the pandemic in March last year.

Thus, the total number of job vacancies in May exceeded 52,000, which is 22% more than in the previous month of April and 76% more if we go back a year - informs the current survey of JobTiger.

What shots are wanted

Most advertisements were published for Employees, including service personnel, and their share reached 69% of all offers in May. The analysis shows that 28% of the ads were for Experts/Specialists, and as for managers - the ads for them are 3% of the total number of new proposals.

And in May there is an increase in ads in each sector

One of the reasons for the sudden increase in the number of advertisements in the last week of May is the still increased supply of jobs in the sectors "Hotel and restaurant" and "Trade and sales", which increased by 36% and 30% respectively. This puts these industries at the forefront of job posting growth.

They are followed by the sectors "Logistics and Transport" (27%), "Manufacturing" (23%), "Health and Pharmacy" (20%), "Accounting, Auditing, Finance" (17%), "Administrative Activities" (16%), Marketing and Advertising (16%) and Construction (9%). The IT sector ranks last with 2% ad growth.

Distribution by sectors

The sectors "Trade and sales" and "Hotels and restaurants" occupy the leading positions in terms of share distribution, respectively 23% and 22% of the total number of ads.

They were followed by the Manufacturing (14%), IT (10%), Logistics and Transport (10%), Administrative (8%) and Construction (5%) sectors. %), Accounting, Auditing, Finance (4%), Health and Pharmacy (3.2%), Marketing and Advertising (2.9%) and Art (1%).

The search for staff in different cities

Half of all job offers are concentrated in the capital. Job offers in Sofia are exactly 50% of the total number, the figures for the other leading regional cities are as follows: Plovdiv (12%), Varna (11%), Burgas (5%), Ruse (3.3%) and Stara Zagora (2.9%). Together, they account for 84% of all proposals published in Bulgaria in May.

The growth of the ads on a monthly basis in each of these cities is: Sofia (18%), Plovdiv (30%), Varna (31%), Burgas (21%), Ruse (5%) and Stara Zagora (23%).