Practising increases young people’s employment chances

The domains in which the job offers from the Job Market is further consistent are IT, human resources, selling and PR.

Overall, 90 firms, have signed up on the event and offer, in the two days, over 3,000 jobs, informs the Radio România Actualităţi reporter, Adrian Cristea.

Most of the participants at this job market are young and enthusiast and the desired salaries from the beginning are 1,500 lei in the case of persons with a medium level of studies, and over 2,500 for those who are specialist within the IT domain.

In fact, as the organizers say, the best represented field is IT and, indeed, almost every big company within the field is represented in this job market.

The firms present at the job market offer over 3,000 working places, but the requests are also proportional.

Firstly, there are requested communication abilities, availability, flexibility, sometimes also technical abilities and foreign languages knowledge.

“We look for manager positions, director development, producer, programmers, who know Java, C++. We also look to attract talents on Romanian market”, declares the representatives of some companies present at the job market.

The job market is opened at Sala Palatului, until Saturday, 5 o’clock p.m.

The graduates of technical profile schools find a job more easily

No matter the domain, the practicing hours place them, in the case of a contest, in front of those who graduated a theoretical profile school and this happened because they had technological practice, broadcasts the Radio România Actualităţi correspondent, Mihaela Buculei.

Those who were practising students, are presently employees of the companies in which they made their practice and some of them have also the perspective to develop their own business.

For instance, within the fashion design domain, a young woman who during the high school has learned to cleave, to sew and to present a fashion model can easily find in this moment a job into a tailoring workshop or, why not, into a fashion house.

For boys, the offer is usually diversified, but most of them orientate to jobs as mechanic, tinsmith or electrician.

Most of the graduates of a high school with this kind of profile have worked in auto-services or in various companies, they have the production experience and at the end of their high school study they are more easily employed.

Many young people come to agricultural studies while “rejected by other faculties”

Many young people assign for faculties with agricultural profile because they were rejected by other education structures, not because they want to work within this domain, declared Friday the Agricultural Minister, Stelian Fuia, at the Mediafax talks about Agriculture seminar.

“Nowadays, in the agricultural education come many people who do not go to other faculties and do not have a direct relation with the rural environment. And after they graduate the university , they have a diploma degree and they look for a job somewhere in the city”, affirmed Stelian Fuia.

The Agriculture Minister showed that the rural population is “in decline” and it is necessary that the young people be guided to develop businesses in agriculture.

“This is another priority of the ministry –youth bringing in the rural environment. An important role in the agriculture development on sustainable bases is represented by the agricultural education development”, also declared Stelian Fuia.

Military carrier offers at Reşiţa

Over a thousand students from Reşiţa have participated Thursday in the hall from the Sala Polivalentă at the meeting with the soldiers that come at the educational places scholarship, broadcasts the Radio România Actualităţi correspondent, Mario Balint.

Six profile institutors from the country have presented their offer for the school year 2012-2013 and their representatives have spoken to students about the meaning of military life.

“The institutions present at Reşiţa were the Military Technical Academy from Bucharest, the Academy, the Warrant Officers School of Land Forces „Basarab I” from Pitești, the Warrant Officers School “Traian Vuia” of Air Forces from Bobocu, the Naval Petty Officers School „Admiral Ion Murgescu” from Constanța and not least, the Military Highschool Alba-Iulia”, declared lieutenant colonel Dorel Rîșcu, from the Military Center County Caraș-Severin.

Very few of those present have declared themselves really decided to put in their sign up files at one of the participant colleges and academies.

This happens although, according the representatives of these institutions, among the advantages offered by a military school there are education, accommodation and free meals, as well as, the most important, a guaranteed working place after graduation.

Most of young people back up when it comes to discipline that govern the military education system.

Over 150000 unemployed people have less than 35 years

At the end of February 2012, the unemployment rate recorded at national level was 5,27 percent, bigger with 0,01 percent than the rate of January 2012 and smaller with 1,4 percent than the rate of February 2011.

The total number of unemployed people at the end of February was 473,866 persons.

According to unemployment structure on age groups, published by the National Agency for Employment (ANOFM), most of the unemployment people, 127,130, have between 40 and 49 years old.

At the end of February 2012 they were 71,722 unemployed people under 25 years old, 37,623 between 25 and 29 years and 115,714 between 30 and 39 years.

The recorded unemployment number structure on age groups has kept its evolution along the last three years with periodical increases, the crisis period not influencing this structure at all.

Taking into account the unemployed people registered at ANOFM, the inputs and outputs of unemployment flows in the last years and the estimations of the National Commission for Prognosis (CNP) regarding the unemployment, the agency proposes for 2012 the including of at least 845,000 persons within the programs of active measures.

The structure on age groups of the program is in concordance with registered unemployment number structure, targeting the higher proportion of people over 30 years.

The apprenticeship law

In December 2011, the government has approved the draft regarding the modification of the apprenticeship law at the working place.

Through the apprenticeship contract, young people can obtain a working place with duration between one year and three years.

The testing period at which the apprentice can be subjected cannot be longer than 30 days.

The employer has to assure to the apprentice a theoretic and practical training or, sometimes only the practical training.

At the end of collaboration, the employer is obliged to sign up the apprentice at an Authorized Center of Evaluation and Certification of Professional Competences, from where the apprentice receives a certificate.

All the evaluation costs are supported by the employer.

The duration of the apprenticeship contract at the working place is established function of the occupation/qualification for which the apprentice has to prepare and the abilities previously gained by him.

The contract lasts 12 months in the case where the apprenticeship is organized in order to gain a first level qualification, 24 months for the second level and 36 for the third level.

The monthly base salary established within the apprenticeship contract at the working place is at least equal with the minimum gross salary per country, respectively 700 RON (for 2012).

Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University