"Only a quarter of the Romanian youngsters" have a job
Even though employment rate has boosted since the beginning of this year, it keeps on being low against that of the last year, especially when it comes about youngsters who are between fifteen and twenty four years.
Articol de Diana Domenico, 28 Iunie 2011, 09:55
Yesterday, over 220,000 school leavers had the exam at the Romanian Language and Literature for which authorities tried to take precaution against trotting.
Some school leavers believe that graduation is a way to get the right to go in for college while others think that the exam represents the base of their future job or of the beginning of unemployment.
Twenty four year old unemployed youngsters’ rate scarcely goes by twenty three per cent.
The figures given by the National Institute of Statistics were made according to the method provided by the National Employment Bureau which considers that a person is able to work between fifteen and sixty four years.
Given the circumstances of the European strategy, the target for 2020 reaches seventy per cent which is twelve per cent lower than nowadays in order to overcome or not to emphasize the financial dependence rapport between people who still have a job and those who have been laid-off.
According to the figures advertised by the National Institute of Statistics, not only at countryside but also in towns, the youngsters’ employment rate keeps being low representing about one quarter of those aged between fifteen and twenty four years and who have a job.
There could be given many explanations as, the CEO of a recruit office, Dragoş Gheban, thinks.
Firstly, there lies the imbalance between the specializations that schools grant and the labour market offers. Thus, many youngsters who graduate with a specialization either they do not manage to find a job or they chose another field which means either going in for other colleges or waiting one year in order to find an offer appropriate for their resume.
Furthermore, Dragoş Gheban emphasizes that "the number of jobs for youngsters does not overcome the number of graduates" and adds that there are many companies "recruiting for certain specializations for which they do not find students or students graduate in a field for which there is not any company to recruit them."
Likewise, he says that there is another thing that should be considered, namely ‘youngsters’ availability to take the trouble which means that many of them have enough ambition to get a job. Many times, some of them chose to attend different forms of colleges while others chose their household comfort.’
The Labour Minister, Sebastian Lăzăroiu, admitted that the changes the economic meltdown brought in did not led to changes in politics regarding professional training according to the labour market and as a consequence there was no relation between supply and demand on the market.
Youngsters’ employment rate is the same in Europe, too.
As a consequence, the European Commission warns that not only there must be increased the education level but also, young employees should be given some incentive bonuses.
Translated by: Cristina Anamaria Maricescu
MA student, MTTLC, Bucharest University
