The stores that retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) is set to open in Bucharest have stirred the interest of hundreds of college graduates who applied for the openings with the Swedish giant in the first day when they were posted. The company is looking for middle-management personnel for the first six stores to be opened next March.
The job market is getting harsher and harsher, with every job
posted hunted by dozens or even hundreds of graduates in a matter
of hours. Most new jobs are in the IT, software or service centre
industry. The high number of applications is made possible by the
fact that they can be automatically submitted online, so that it
becomes increasingly harder for HR managers to process CVs. Under
the circumstances, many of them revert to looking for people based
on recommendations.
On specialist job site BestJobs more than 850 CVs were posted for
H&M jobs on Monday and Tuesday.
“We are getting 60 or 70 CVs for every position opened, and the
number of applications has increased significantly compared with
the previous years,” says Delia Blăjan, human resources manager of
Adobe Romania, who currently has 30 openings for software
developers and database administrators.
The representatives of Caro hotel complex network, which is looking
for a general manager and sales manager, have received as much as
600 applications for each position.
The National Employment Agency had 42,000 university graduates
without a job registered in June. They collect 300 RON in
unemployment benefits.
Some of the biggest employers at this time are outsourcing centres
of such companies as HP, Genpact, Samsung, ING and Wipro.