“At present, more frequent are the cases when certain companies, usually small and medium-sized enterprises, are forced to forego part of their workforce in this field,” said Alina Manole, Senior HR Consultant for Brainspotting, a recruitment company specializing on the IT sector.
Although demand for personnel in the IT sector dropped from its 2008 level, the software/technology sector continues to be one of the fields with the most active offers on the bestjobs.ro recruitment Web site. “Fields such as internet/new media and IT hardware kept a balance in terms of number of job offers, considering that negative forecasts announced a significant decline,” according to Roxana Timofte, BestJobs PR Representative for Neogen SA, the company that owns the recruitment Web site.
In general, companies are looking for experienced specialists but the market also provides opportunities at entry-level, though far fewer than in previous years. Adobe Systems is one of the companies with the most job offers on the hipo.ro recruitment Web site, which works like an online career fair for youths.
The level of applications for jobs available in the IT&C field has more than tripled, according to BestJobs data. “We registered an increase in the number of applicants. In 2009, we had 236 percent more compared to the first half of 2008,” Timofte added.
