2024-07-31 11:51:22
Also, according to the service, the number of employers looking for staff increased – 264 furniture companies were looking for employees – 40 more than last year.
“Although the intensity of the search for employees does not reach 2022. starting level, and the situation in the furniture manufacturing industry is more reminiscent of the pre-pandemic period, we are optimistic about the intensifying personnel search and hiring processes”, explains Giedrė Sinkeviče, Deputy Director of the Employment Service.
According to UŽT, compared to the first half of last year, the demand for skilled workers and operators increased by 13.2 percent, while the number of unskilled job offers increased by 7 percent. less. More than last year, there was a search for furniture, woodworking machine fitters and operators, carpenters and joiners, as well as sales and logistics managers, furniture designers, accounting and bookkeeping specialists.
“Although furniture (300), carpentry (200), woodworking machine operators (200) received the most offers in the first half of this year, the hiring of administrative personnel is also renewed,” says G. Sinkeviče.
0.4 thousand people started working in furniture companies. or 28 percent more clients of the Employment Service than in the first half of last year. In order to attract qualified workers, furniture manufacturing companies also offered 6.3 percent in the first half of this year. increased wages.
According to the Employment Service, the recovery was determined by the fact that in 2022 in the second half of the year, the factors that negatively affected furniture makers, such as rising prices of raw materials, disrupted supply chains, increased energy costs, and a drop in demand for furniture, subsided.
In the first half of this year, almost 120 clients of the Employment Service chose specialties in the furniture industry.
At the beginning of July, 1.1 thousand people worked in the furniture industry. foreigners. Mostly – Ukrainians, Belarusians, Latvians. They took the jobs of furniture makers, packers, carpenters and joiners, woodworking equipment operators.
2024-07-31 11:51:22