The work force becomes a problem in Cluj town

The massive investments which Cluj district drew up lately have determined with fulminate speed changes on the work force market. The investors and the recruitments agencies must adapt to the new reality.

The Cluj town has, in present, the highest job offer in the country, here fallowing to record an explosion of staffing until the end of the year, estimated to 9.000 persons, according the representatives of the District Agency of Employment in Cluj.

However, the town has the unemployment rate under 0,5% - the highest rate being among the ones with medium studies. The psychologist Katalina Barna, executive director and expert in human resources of TransJobs company believes that “Cluj town can’t handle so high demand of these new players on the market, so it will be needed the use of work force from the neighbor towns: Turda, Campia Turzii, Zalau or Simleu Silvaniei.” Here, the number of jobs is very limited. In these conditions, the ones who will work to Cluj will need a daily transportation mean, the most probably assured by the employer.  

Incomes increase

All investors which announced free workplaces for the next period - – Bechtel, Nokia, Polus Center, Iulius Mall, and a company of manufacturing auto rims – choose personal with medium qualification, respective workers, and only 20% of the available workplaces address to the ones with high studies. Claudia Indreica, Managing Partner of Psihoselect Company, Cluj, thinks that the problem of hiring people with medium studies, which already have a job in Cluj, becomes important because “their availability of changing the present job must be motivated either with a higher income or with other indirect benefits”. The battle for the workforce will mostly affect the small companies. In order to survive they will have to manage the competition with the multinational companies, as in what concerns the offered incomes as for the general work conditions.

The HR market expands

Until the middle of last year, the recruitments from the Cluj area were based in part, on hiring public offers, and the number of candidates was a big one. Thanks to the large investments, since the autumn of 2007, in certain segments of work market, as for IT, marketing, constructions, engineering and especially qualified personnel, finding out of human resources raises serious problems to the recruitment companies.

“In the future, for the more pretentious positions, we’ll have to appeal to direct search and to have a well ship-shaped data base”,  Katalina Barna, executive director to TransJobs, Cluj stated for us. Also, the recruitment companies from Cluj will focus most on the clients consulting for whom the hires are made, with advices about incomes, work areas or the careful attention to the employees.