
Job market experts and politicians agree, Russia needs more qualified workers — and even some not-so-qualified ones. This year’s expansion of the list of foreign specialists not subject to visa quotas is a testament to the growing needs in a wide variety of areas.
Though Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in his recently published vision for the country’s development that 25 million jobs for skilled workers have to be crea
“No matter how well we organize our demographic policies, new people in such quantities will not be appearing soon,” Fursenko said last week at the Gaidar Forum for Russian economists, RBC reported.ted, Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko expressed doubt concerning the ability to find people to fill those positions.
In the white-collar segment, recruiters are seeing a booming market tipped in favor of employees. “The job market has practically completely recovered [from the financial crisis] and now constitutes a job-seeker’s market. The battle for qualified staff is escalating,” Sergei Gadetsky, head of Ancor, one of the largest recruitment firms in Russia, told The Moscow Times.