Career and HR, page 20
Employment news from Slovakia
Services of executive search firms are in demand
THE SLOVAK economy is showing clear signals of recovery and this has been reflected in the labour market, bringing more work to executive search companies. Companies in Slovakia have started looking for managers and experts either to replace individuals with unsatisfactory past performance or to hire individuals for newly-created positions and they are often doing so with the help of executive search companies, which say they are also asked more and more to perform personnel audits and outplacement services.
Slovakia to issue EU Blue Cards
SLOVAKIA, like other European countries, faces an aging society and is starting to look beyond its borders to fill in gaps in its labour force. To create a more unified structure for work migration the European Union has developed a system of Blue Cards to allow skilled workers to more easily obtain entry to EU countries. Slovakia is now taking action to transpose the EU’s legislation into its national laws. The Slovak parliament will discuss a draft revision to the country’s law on illegal work as well as an amendment to the law on foreigners staying in Slovakia at its current session that opened on May 17.
The Talents of Tomorrow 2011
The Talents of Tomorrow 2011 conference, which takes place again in Bratislava from 6 to 7 May 2011, is one of the biggest national conferences organized by students from the world’s largest student-led non-profit organization, AIESEC.
BISB: Producing Global Citizens for the 21st Century
The British International School Bratislava was established in the leafy suburb of Dubravka, Bratislava in 1997 with 40 students of four or five nationalities. Today it is a thriving school of 630 students comprised of 45 nationalities and with a waiting list for many of its classes, and the school site is therefore being developed to meet the demand for places and further improve its facilities. Although the school was established originally to provide a school for the growing ex-patriate population, some 30% of the school population is Slovak. Parents of these students have deliberately chosen a ‘British International’ education. Why do parents and their children choose BISB?
Transfer of businesses and protection of employment
In the economical practice, entrepreneurs have to deal with different kinds of organisational changes, such as transfers of assets, transfers of enterprises, mergers or split-ups etc. which also affect their employees. Labour law codifies the institute of automatic transfer (succession) of rights and obligations arising under employment to protect employees in these cases.
National Career Days: A goldmine for employers
The very successful Slovak job fair called “National Career Days” (NDK) is celebrating its 16th annual event in 2011. AIESEC Slovakia – the organizer of NDK – again is offering an opportunity for leading Slovak companies to present their firms and have an opportunity to meet and find young, future employees.
Learning is a continuous, lifelong process
RAPID changes in technology, exploding knowledge, and ongoing research have made lifelong education a must if people are to keep their minds, as well as their skills and qualifications, sharp. Universities across the world are responding by offering new forms of lifelong learning that go beyond those provided within post-graduate studies. The programmes evolving in Slovakia are responding to the desires of those who want to continue their learning and the format and subjects often differ from the traditional university approach. They often include language and computer skills courses as well as senior education within the so-called university of the third age.
Foreign workers return to Slovakia
THE NUMBER of foreign workers in Slovak companies has started to rise again. The daily Hospodárske Noviny wrote in late September that most of them were from the Czech Republic and Romania. However, while most foreign workers were employed in manual roles in the past, now they mostly work in management positions.
Employment continues to fall
THE YEAR-ON-YEAR decline in employment continued in all sectors of the Slovak economy in August. The information and telecommunications technologies sector registered the biggest annual drop, down by 10.9 percent to 33,193 people. Employment in distribution and repair of motor vehicles decreased 6.4 percent to 20,941. The wholesale sector reported the third deepest drop, of 4.9 percent, to 94,835, the Slovak Statistics Office announced on October 11.
Foreign education improves chances
STUDYING abroad can amount to an investment in your career. Employers in Slovakia often appreciate it when a job applicant has obtained a qualification from a foreign university, especially from one with an established reputation. But students must be careful, as official recognition of the titles they obtain is not automatic.
Institutions and organisations operating in the education sector
Ministry of Education,www.minedu.sk
Job growth still stagnates even though worst is over
IT SEEMS that Slovakia’s labour market is slowly starting to recover along with Slovakia’s rising economic output. But for now the level of economic growth is not vigorous enough to generate a significant number of new job positions and reduce the unemployment rate to its pre-crisis level. Moreover, the labour market has some distinct pockets of ill health as many unemployed Slovaks are now classed as long-term jobless and recent school graduates are finding it extremely difficult to land their first jobs.
Helping talented Slovaks return home
THE SEARCH for jobs by Slovaks is no longer limited by the borders of their country and many more Slovaks are travelling abroad to improve their education and gain work experience or to enjoy better working conditions and higher wages. Many Slovaks go abroad intending to return home sometime in the future, while others may decide to relocate permanently, resulting in a so-called brain-drain from the country. Thus, enticing people working abroad to return to Slovakia is an opportunity to reverse that brain-drain and to harness talents honed abroad for the benefit of the Slovak economy.
The university system in Slovakia
Universities in Slovakia: 37
The crisis has also influenced the HR sphere in companies
The global economic and financial crisis has hit all spheres of business and enterprise. The global crisis has also, to a great extent, influenced the adoption of new legislative rules, based on which relations between employers and employees have changed.
Explosive detection dog handlers needed by American company for work in Afghanistan
RONCO Consulting Corporation (RONCO) is a US firm based in Washington DC. For over three decades, RONCO has provided canine, security, and support services to a host of government and commercial clients across the world to include Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. Our extensive canine services included Mine Detection Dog Teams, Narcotics Detection Dog Teams, Patrol Dog Teams, Search-and-Rescue Dog Teams, Human Remains Dog Teams,and Explosive Detection Dog Teams.
The 15th Annual National Career Days
AIESEC Slovakia Slovensko presents for 2010 the 15th Annual National Career Days. The job opportunities fair will take place on the 11th and 12th of March, 2010 in the Incheba Convention Center in Bratislava. This unique event showcases job offers from a number of leading Slovak companies in various industries which are participating. The event will run over two days. Last year, more than 4913 students came to see it.
Flux in labour market continues in 2010
Global economic downturn, financial crisis and recession will probably become less frequently used terms in upcoming business reports as the most recent figures on industrial production in Slovakia blessed market watchers, business people and ordinary citizens with the best results in many months and the economic forecasts for GDP growth in 2010 look more favourable than they have been for all of last year.
Talent management – a tool for future success
Talent is a term which requires no additional definition for most readers while talent management should be a part of the functioning of society across all economic and public spheres. Yet, the term ‘talent management’ probably calls for further explanation. In brief, it could be defined as the ability of an organisation to identify, acquire, retain and develop the most skilled people with the goal of placing them in leading and highly specialised positions in the future. However, in a 2006 poll among managers in Europe, only about 20 percent of them were able to formally define what talent management was even though 51 percent of them claimed that they were actively performing talent management-related activities.
How to enhance your chances of getting a desired job
One reads much advice from HR experts about how to behave at a personal interview, how to write a proper CV and so on. One might say there could be no chance that somebody comes unprepared.
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