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Survey: IT, trade and constructions hired massively during pandemic
The fields with most hirings since the beginning of the pandemic were IT, trade, constructions and financial consulting, domains for which employers posted more than half of number of jobs on Bestjobs platform, over April-October.
“The top of fields with most hirings since the beginning of the pandemic is led by IT, trade, constructions and financial consulting. All four domains were responsible for more than half of the number of jobs for which employers posted announcements on Bestjobs platform, over April-October 2020.”
IT companies held pride of place, with 12,000 jobs since the beginning of pandemic, when the people's circulation restrictions and the implementation of work from home led to the acceleration of digitization and the adoption of new technologies. Top 3 jobs for which companies tried to hire people were Software Developers, Support Engineer and System Administrator.
Trade ranks second in the top of fields which continued to hire a large number of people with 11,000 jobs in wholesale trade and over 6,000 jobs in retail, when activities considered essential, such as consumer goods and food trade, functioned all the time since the beginning of pandemic. Specialists most in demand were sales agents/representatives, Logistic Planners and Trade Marketing Specialists.
Constructions ranked third, next to the financial consulting field, with a little over 6,000 jobs each.
There are also domains whose activity was very affected and froze hiring on the background of the impact generated by the coronavirus pandemic on certain economic sectors, such as organizing events and fairs or recreational and artistic activities.
BestJobs is one of the largest online recruiting platforms in Romania, with over 2.5 million people connected to the labor market and over 25,000 active jobs anytime, both in the country and abroad.