Employers in our country are looking for hundreds of thousands of people to hire. At the same time, hundreds of thousands in Bulgaria neither work nor study. Against this backdrop, much of the industry is also wondering who will be working at sea this summer.
"For the first time, we are also observing a hold in demand in the industrial sphere and production. Fewer people are being sought than what has been traditional in recent years. In addition to the slight slowdown seen in the IT and outsourcing sector, unemployment has stabilized at levels just above 5% and those 160,000 who are out of work appear to have no way to make ends meet in the labor market. The situation is in short supply and needs fresh blood and new people from outside.
This is what people management specialist Georgi Parvanov said in the studio of Bulgaria ON AIR.
Procedures for importing labor from third countries, however, remain quite complex.
"In other times, Bulgaria was an importer of labor, about 50,000 Vietnamese worked in the country. Then, unfortunately, we became an exporter for quite a long time. At the moment we are returning to the role of an importer and our embassies abroad are still not prepared and do not have the resources to quickly issue visas, and in some key markets where there are qualified people, for example the Philippines and Kyrgyzstan, there are no Bulgarian embassies," explained Parvanov.
According to him, they are looking for people in the sectors of agriculture, production, construction, medicine and others.