08.03.2022

IN WHICH SECTORS ARE THEY LOOKING TO HIRE PEOPLE?

The number of job advertisements in February continues to grow, according to a monthly analysis of a job placement platform. Proposals have increased by 9% compared to January, and on an annual basis the growth is 50%.

The trend is positive in almost all sectors. The highest growth of ads in February was the sector "Hotels and restaurants" with 60%. It is followed by the sectors "Logistics and Transport" (40%) and "Accounting, Auditing, Finance" (14%).

In the other sectors the growth of the number of advertisements is: "Marketing and advertising" (5.6%), "Production" (5%), "IT" (4%), "Administrative and service activities" (2.4%) , Trade and Sales (2%), Health and Pharmacy (1%).

Almost unchanged, with a very slight decline in proposals, remains the construction sector, where ads fell by 0.2%.

Share distribution

The Trade and Sales and IT sectors maintain their leading positions in the number of proposals with shares of 19% and 15.7%, respectively.

Already in the previous month there was a growth of 72% in the hotel and restaurant sector. With the current increase, the share of ads in the sector increased to 15.6% and from the previous fifth place it already ranks third in terms of share of the total number of ads and almost equalizes that of the IT sector.

They are followed by the sectors: "Production" (15%), "Administrative and service activities" (10%), "Logistics and Transport" (8%), "Accounting, Auditing, Finance" (5%), Construction (4.9%), Health and Pharmacy (3.9%), Marketing and Advertising (3.5%) and Art (1%).

Work from home

Proposals for work from home and / or telecommuting showed a slight decrease of 3% or nearly 200 proposals less than in January. The total share of these ads is 13.2% of all job postings or nearly 6250 offers. Compared to the sectors that provide this type of work, these proposals are divided into the following ratio "IT" (63%), followed by "Administrative and service activities" (16%) and the outsourcing (BPO) industry (16%) and Trade and Sales (5%).

Ads with a requirement to have a green certificate

Proposals requiring a green certificate (certifying a completed cycle of vaccination against COVID-19 or its disease) were also reduced in February. Their number is nearly 150 and is equal to only 0.3% of all ads.

Supply by cities

The number of ads for the city of Sofia has decreased by 2%, and in the other leading regional cities we see an increase. They have increased as follows: Plovdiv (5%), Varna (22%), Burgas (18%), Ruse (4%) and Stara Zagora (5%).

The main factor for the tangible increase in advertisements in Varna and Burgas is again the increased demand for staff in the hotel and restaurant sector.

As a share distribution, the proposals in the leading regional cities occupy 79% of all announcements.