16.12.2021

WHICH PROFESSIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN SHORT SUPPLY NEXT YEAR

78 are the specialties of professions for which there is an expected shortage on the labor market. Among them are machine technicians, machine operators, electricians, electricians, chemist technologists, biotechnologists, glass production workers, shipbuilders, translators from and into Bulgarian sign language, polygraphists and others.

This is stated in the reasons for the draft Decree, which proposes updating the List of protected specialties of professions for the academic year 2022/2023 and updating the List of specialties of professions for which there is an expected shortage of specialists in the market of labor for the academic year 2022/2023, uploaded for public discussion. They are prepared with the participation of ministries and employers' organizations in accordance with the provisions of the Vocational Education and Training Act.

After the update of the list, the protected specialties are 50. They are in the field of mechanical engineering, metallurgy, mining, architecture, construction, transport, electrical engineering and energy, applied arts and others.

The list of state-protected specialties is supplemented by two new ones. These are "Locomotives and wagons" (profession "Railway fitter") and "Production of meat, meat products and fish" (profession "Operator in the food industry"). "Renewable energy sources" (profession "Technician of energy facilities and installations") is added to the list of specialties with expected shortages in the labor market.

The specialties "Computer-aided design and patterning of woven surface products" (profession "Textile Designer"), "Agriculture" (profession "Plant Breeder") and "Beekeeping and sericulture" (profession "Livestock Technician") will not be protected in the future. They no longer meet the criterion of territorial uniqueness because they are studied in more than four schools in the country.

The changes will be valid for the school year 2022/2023.