The highest level managers are the professional sphere, which was mostly harmed by the crisis. The number of proposals for senior management representatives on the grc.ua website in July is 6.7 times less than during the same period last year. During several months of war there is a stable low number of vacancies and a decrease of salary offers.
Finding a job for operational or financial director today is quite problematic, because the competition among job seekers in this category is one of the highest in the labor market. For one job can claim 14 or more people. This is not surprising: during the crisis companies cut their costs, which leads to certain peculiarities in the recruitment of top managers.
On the one hand, in conditions of economy and without extra need in top-managers "expensive" vacancies try not to be opened. On the other hand, as the experience of the previous crises shows, during deterioration of the situation on the labor market, employed workers demonstrate greater loyalty to their employers, value their workplace and do not quit their jobs unnecessarily. Consequently, there are not too many new vacancies, nor are there too many "replacement" vacancies. If such openings do occur, employers are more likely to target internal candidates or applicants who are willing to give up their salary wishes to get the job.
When looking for a new top manager, recommendations of existing employees of the company began to play a special role. Asking for recommendations from their employees is commonplace in many companies. In conditions of personnel shortage it was difficult to provide such recommendations - as a rule a good specialist already had a job. But during the crisis this method works very effectively. Today, if a vacancy opens up, more often than not employees can recommend two or three worthy candidates. Especially if we are talking about professional areas with high competition. Thus, not too many job openings come to the outside market. And even fewer of them can satisfy applicants with pre-crisis salary requirements. However, there is always work for those who are willing to be persistent.
More often both vacancies and CVs were placed in Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk region, Lvov and the region, in Khmelnitsky and Odessa regions. In all areas of the labor market the leading positions were lost by the regions which suffered from the war the most. Traditionally, Donetsk and Kharkiv used to be in the ranking of regions with the greatest number of job offers for top management.
PigUA.info according to agravery.com