IT&C companies face engineer shortage

IT&C companies in Romania are faced with a shortage of skilled personnel, with engineers particularly in demand. The problems encountered in the recruitment process are not related to the salary level on offer, but the quality of the personnel, says Alexandru Costin, general manager of the software company Adobe Romania. “It is hard for us to hire very good people, because there are so few of them. It is not a matter of money or availability, it is a matter of finding people of quality and of identifying their potential,” he adds. Several IT&C companies on the domestic market, among which Alcatel-Lucent, have complained about the “lack of engineers”. In the communications and networking sector alone, the domestic market is currently 9,000 engineers short, according to a study commissioned by Cisco Romania.