At the end of November, 49,549 unemployed people were registered in the records of the Employment Service of the Republic of Srpska, which is about 5,000 fewer unemployed people than in the same period last year – data from this institution show.
In 11 months of last year, a total of 36,132 newly unemployed registered with the Institute, which is an average of about 107 people per day. At the same time, 20,720 persons were deleted from the Institute’s records due to employment. Of the total number of newly registered persons, 13,125 people lost their jobs due to the expiration of fixed-term contracts, while 4,456 people were declared technologically redundant, according to the RS Employment Office.
Observed according to professional training, the largest share among the unemployed are people with a secondary education (33 percent), followed by qualified and highly qualified workers (32 percent), unqualified workers (20 percent), while 11 percent of the unemployed have a university education.
The results of the labor market research show that employers most often faced difficulties when hiring in occupations such as: waiter, salesperson or trader, worker for simple tasks, auxiliary worker in production, cook, carpenter, shoemaker – seamstress of upper parts of shoes, locksmith, warehouse worker, seamstress, nurse-technician, delivery person, welder, carpenter, baker, truck driver, butcher, armorer, truck driver, construction worker, shoemaker, doctor medicine, mason, catering worker and passenger car driver. These professions make up 62.3 percent of the profiles for which employers had difficulties in finding labor.
As the most common reasons for difficult employment, employers cite a lack of staff with the required occupation (64.2 percent), lack of interest of individuals in working in specific positions (49.5 percent), lack of appropriate work experience (43.8 percent), as well as insufficient professional knowledge and skills of candidates (48.1 percent). Dissatisfaction with the offered salary is cited as an obstacle by 11.1 percent of employers.
More than half of the employers who reported obstacles to employment, or 55.2 percent, point out that they overcome the problem of lack of adequate workforce by additionally hiring existing workers, because they are unable to find new ones.
According to the latest data from the Statistical Office of the RS, a total of 289,689 workers were employed in the RS at the end of September last year.
