Some businesses were cautious in selecting staff. Personnel market is directly dependent on the state of the economy and, during 2013 Kazakhstani employees worked in a relatively favorable period of smooth growth in all sectors. About this in an interview with Kapital.kz Business Portal Valeria Sheveleva, the director of ANCOR personnel holding told, in Kazakhstan. 

However, the alarming situation in the global economy is reflected in the behavior of employers and a stable market of Kazakhstan. “Many companies, especially European ones behave very reserved and cautious in planning and recruitment, cutting costs, moving towards improved business efficiency,” Valeria Sheveleva said. 

The problem of shortage of qualified professionals with specific or unique experience and deep professional expertise remains in the market “. All productive sectors suffer from the lack such personnel, especially Hi Tech, and other high-tech industries. With the same persistence one requires specialists in sales and marketing for all sectors of the market”, the expert continues. For example, due to the growing trend of online retail sales, specialists with a rare expertise are needed in e-commerce organization. Extractive industries always relevant need engineers of all disciplines and levels.” 

Separately, Valeria Sheveleva spoke about the acute shortage of skilled workers, the problem of attracting of which businesses decide with enormous difficulties for more than a year. “If we save a stable economic and political situation in the country, the labor market in 2014 will continue the fight for talent and “the candidate market” will be kept.  Employers will continue to be interested in attracting the brightest professionals,”  the speaker predicted. 

Source: Kapital.kz Business Portal.