One in four construction employees has lost their job since the onset of the crisis, namely over 100,000 people, while universities annually yield 1,800 construction university graduates, reads BUSINESS CONSTRUCT magazine.
The young people who once dreamt of being construction engineers
now only want to work in a construction company, even accepting
voluntary work for a certain period. However, at the opposite end
are the employees made redundant from construction firms, who
attend professional retraining courses hoping to find some
work.
In 2007-2008, many HR managers had difficulties in recruiting as
young graduates with no work experience used to ask for minimum
salaries of 1,000 euros only because they were university
graduates. Graduates became more realistic though last year, when
they saw that months would pass before they were invited for an
interview and salary offers were way below those of previous
years.