In the entire region, 54.2 thousand were announced last year. vacancies, and in the first half of this year – more than 25 thousand. The greatest need for workers is in Kaunas (15.8 thousand), Alytus (2.8 thousand) and Marijampole (2.2 thousand).
The fastest growing field of activity in Kaunas is related to startups and innovations. The search channels for employees of companies engaged in this are wider – not only in the Employment Service, where 71 jobs were also registered this year, of which the majority are for IT specialists (41), information technology system administrators (6), one other job position is for an information technology system operation engineer or for a scientific technical information processing engineer.
Kaunas University of Health Sciences and other scientific research institutes promote the development of health care and biotechnology. In the first half of this year, the number of job offers in companies providing human health care services increased. There is a great need for medical workers – 600 vacancies have been announced, of which 256 are for general practice nurses, 96 are for doctors of various fields (family, cardiologist, neurologist, geriatrician), there is a shortage of psychologists and dentists.
The search for pedagogues is relevant for the Kaunas region as well – there is a shortage of teaching assistants (56) and mathematics teachers (48). 171 vacancies are available for teachers.
The service sector publishes the largest number of vacancies in the Register of the Employment Service – 11.6 thousand registered this year. job ads. Even 35.4 percent job offers – in the field of wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, 32 percent. – in companies performing administrative and service activities.
1.2 thousand people participated in vocational training in the first half of the year. persons, in 2023 – 1850. The tool for acquiring qualifications and competences that create high added value (APVK) is also gaining more and more popularity – this year 800 customers chose technologies, last year – 1074 throughout the year.
Residents of Kaunas (625), as well as residents of Alytus (51), Marijampolė (33), want to acquire promising professions the most. Lazdijai (4), Šakii (8), Vilkaviški (9), Varėna (9), Prienai (10) have the fewest students. More people who wanted to learn future-oriented qualifications were in Druskininkai (18), Jonava (17), Kaišiadorys (14).
In-demand learning programs: vehicle repair technician informal education program (67), No-code and robotic process automation informal program (65), audiovisual production creation and production program (42), e. sales and marketing analytics (37).
The individual care worker modular vocational training program remains popular – this year 210 people chose it, in 2023. – 232. Modular professional training programs for accountant (134), nurse assistant (105), motor vehicle driver (82) are also in demand.
The customer profile has gradually changed in the region over the past five years. A more pronounced trend is the increase of registered persons with higher education by almost 2 percent. – now they make up 27.6 percent. of all job seekers. In the customer structure, the number of skilled workers also slightly increased (0.5 percentage points) to 45.4 percent, while the largest decrease (2.4 percentage points) was among persons without professional training (27 percent).
Although people have a university or college education, they are mostly looking for work in the following positions: support worker – 2.2 thousand, cleaner (820), salesperson (653), administrator (470), car driver (419), sales manager (411) , security guard (368), driver-forwarder (261). Also, clients of this group want to work as sales managers (411), project managers (79), accountants (57), company managers (47), personnel specialists (42), psychologists (20).
The uniqueness of the region is also shown by the age statistics of registered customers. In five years, the number of persons over 50 years of age decreased from 28.1 percent. up to 27.7 percent however, the number of young people under the age of 29 has increased – this year it accounted for 31.4 percent.
Again, in this region since 2019, there are significantly more unemployed men than women – respectively, they make up 53.7 percent. and 46.3 percent Most unemployed men are in Birštonas municipality (60.6%) and Druskininkai (56.8%). The least – in Alytus (45.8%) and Marijampolė (46.1%).
July 1 44.3 thousand were registered in the employment service. Unemployed residents of Kaunas, Marijampolė and Alytus. Registered unemployment reached 9.1 percent. and is 0.6 percent. higher than the national average. In the first half of this year, 9 percent were looking for work. (2.9 thousand), more persons than in 2019. in the same period.
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