Career and HR, page 9
Employment news from Slovakia
PhD for personal development
PhD graduates are valued on the job market for their expertise and soft skills.
Slovakia leads in nonstop work
If night shift was totally cancelled, employers would not only have to hire more people, but also buy new production technologies.
Foreign languages increase salaries
The number of people using a foreign language every day is probably the same in companies of all sizes.
Economy opens up for non-EU workers
The labour market requires new blood and workers from outside of the EU could be the way to revive it, experts say
More Slovaks are migrating for work, in spite of increasing job opportunities
Demographic development has a significant impact on the labour market
State spends €1,500 a year per unemployed
The money is spent ineffectively and is not aimed at those groups at-risk.
Slovaks abroad expected to send home €2 billion this year
Slovak citizens who live abroad prefer jobs in construction, health and services including nurses in Austria and construction workers in the Czech Republic.
The most Slovaks have a job in the last two decades
Nearly 2.5 million Slovaks have a job, either in Slovakia or abroad, which has been the highest number in the past 20 years, according to VÚB bank analyst Andrej Arady.
Slovakia lacks some 10,000 IT specialists
The number may even be higher in the following four years, according to the IT association.
Jourová: Europe cannot waste potential of another Roma generation
Slovakia hosts Empowerment of Roma Youth as a Driving Force behind Change.
Unemployment drops slightly
Despite the drop in the number of jobless, its tempo is slowing down compared with the previous period.
Trade unions oppose hiring people from outside EU
Slovakia has enough people who could be retrained, they say.
Agreement on minimum wage for 2017 fails
Employers and trade unions disagree with the Labour Ministry’s proposal to raise the gross minimum wage to €435 a month.
Jobless rate remains below 10 percent
The arrival of school graduates on the labour market has not affected unemployment much.
Employers more interested in university graduates
Graduates from technical specialisations needed, but their number keeps dropping.
Unemployment continues to decrease
Not lack of jobs but unsuitable structure of jobseekers prevents a more robust drop in unemployment.
Increasing number of Slovaks working abroad
Slovaks work mostly in German-speaking countries and the Czech Republic.
Women in Slovakia earn more than one-fifth less
Slovak women earn 21.1 percent, i.e. more than one-fifth less than men.
High turnover in subsidised jobs
The Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) has done an audit reviewing the support for employment and reducing unemployment among young Slovaks.
73% see change of job as positive
As many as 73 percent of those who decide to change their job perceive it as a change for better.
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