Career and HR, page 13

Váhostav-SK to pay debts with shares

CONSTRUCTION company Váhostav-SK, currently undergoing restructuring, will exchange 49 percent of its shares to pay of debts to unsecured creditors – primarily small-sized firms and the self-employed.

Airline boosts visitor rate in Tatras

THE FIRST season of a flight connection between the Slovak city of Poprad, lying under the foot of the Tatra mountains, and the Latvian capital of Riga has positively impacted the number of visitors to both the High and Low Tatras.

The regions and sectors in which people work matter

Pharmaceutical, IT and utilities are the highest paying sectors in Slovakia, while engineering, manufacturing, and logistics and forwarding pay the lowest below the market average.

Students to get more experience with new law

AFTER nearly two years of discussion, parliament has adopted a new law on vocational training which should meet the requirements of employers for more professional staffers. 

Generation Y meets the labour market

Young people differ from their predecessors, which also reflects in job conditions

Coaching as a way to find solutions

Sometimes it happens that after the launch of a company and its successful operation, its managers get stuck with internal processes, or need to clean up in the company, or find new ways to motivate employees to higher achievements, but are not sure where to start. 

Employment poised to rise this year

EMPLOYEMENT in Slovakia looks set to rise despite drops in investments, with industry and the IT sector leading the way, Ivana Vačoková of Adecco told the TASR newswire.

How has management and HR changed in the last 25 years?

Twenty-five years are usually considered the era of one generation. This is also because in a quarter of a century, people - their expectations, demands and also their lifestyles - change significantly.

Differences in Slovak men’s and women’s pensions lowest in EU

YOUNG women are more educated than they were in the past and have better opportunities to take care of themselves as well, a study published by the Allianz Group based on information provided by the Statistics Office of the European Commission (Eurostat) informs.

A sabbatical is not a luxury

Young are willing to switch jobs often

Slovak stay in the same job for less than four years on average, but amid changing work habits this still makes them among central Europe's most loyal employees.

Businesses wary of labour code changes

Amid a lack of tangible statistical data, employer groups continue to insist that reforms to the labour code in recent years are harming economic and job growth. 

Tightening rules for employment agencies

The goverment decided to improve the system of temporary employment via agencies resulting in dispute between unionists, emloyers, government, and the president in the second half of 2014

Human resources sector highlights

A selection of surveys, polls and research conducted in the HR sectorfrom January 2014 to February 2015

Minister seeks to modernise education

While Education Minister Juraj Draxler does not have a full four-year tenure to implement his plans for Slovakia’s education sector, as he took up the ministerial post only last November and there is just more than one year before the next parliamentary elections, he is offering plans that he thinks will push the country forward.    

Unemployment and education remain the focus

High unemployment rates, even as they fall slightly, remain a persistent problem.

Companies seeking specialists

QUALITY engineers, project managers, SAP consultants and payroll accountants are among the most sought after specialists in the job market, and wages for these jobs may vary by hundreds of euros per month depending on the region.

Some employment, HR and executive search companies in Slovakia

- Amrop Slovakia – Context Driven Executive Search, www.amrop.sk- Arthur Hunt, www.arthur-hunt.com- CPL Jobs, www.cpljobs.sk- Grafton Recruitment Slovakia, www.grafton.sk- Index Nosluš, www.indexnoslus.sk- Lugera & Maklér, www.lugerarepublic.sk- Manpower Slovensko, www.manpower.sk- McROY Slovakia, www.mcroygroup.com- Menkyna & Partners Management Consulting, www.menkyna.com- Proact People Slovensko, www.proactpeople.sk- Profesia, www.profesia.sk- Target Executive Search Slovakia, www.targetfuture.com- Trenkwalder, www.trenkwalder.sk

Job satisfaction over stress-free life

WHAT affects the quality of our life the most? More than 500 Slovaks answered this question in a survey conducted for the Bayer company in June. A similar survey was also conducted in the Czech Republic and revealed some differences in the character between the two nations, Bayer wrote in its press release.