Is the employee market over? Poles have no doubts
In Poland, we are still dealing with an employee’s market – 40 percent believe so. employers participating in the eRecruiter platform survey. Employees themselves see this issue differently.
At the end of last week, the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy presented estimated data on the unemployment rate in October. It amounted to 5.6 percent, the same as a month earlier. This means that for the first time in five months the unemployment rate in Poland is not increasing. However, the number of unemployed people registered in labor offices increased slightly. Data provided by the Ministry of Labor show that at the end of October there were 868.3 thousand of them, 2.2 thousand more than more than at the end of September.
Is the employee market over? The point of view depends…
As “Rzeczpospolita” writes, this small but still increase corresponds to the pessimism of most employees. The results of the latest edition of the Candidate Experience survey of the eRecruiter platform quoted by the newspaper show that 53 percent Poles believe that we are currently dealing with an employer’s market. Interestingly, the same percentage of such votes was recorded among both manual workers and specialists. Approximately 20 percent were convinced of the functioning of the employee market. subjects.
Employers have a slightly different opinion on this matter. The study shows that every third of them (33%) believes that we have an employer’s market, but as many as 40% claims that we are dealing with an employee’s market.
According to Łukasz Komuda, a labor market expert from the Foundation for Social and Economic Initiatives, the study shows that the narrative about the “employee market” is created mainly due to employers having a stronger influence on the media, most often complaining about too high expectations of job candidates, especially inexperienced representatives of Generation Z.
Candidates themselves complain that they do not receive feedback during the recruitment process. Additional, previously unannounced stages of recruitment and delays in recruitment meetings also turn out to be a common problem. Many candidates claim that they encounter discriminatory and stereotypical treatment during recruitment. People aged 55+ talk about it most often. – Such complaints indicate a lack of respect for job candidates, which is unlikely to be a problem when the employee has a stronger position than the employer. – comments Łukasz Komuda.
