Sri Lanka job market prospects promising: everjobs.lk career report

13 January 2016 03:19 am Views - 4356

The latest data from the everjobs.lk career report underscores that, Sri Lanka’s job market continues to improve, with IT & software, banking & financial services, apparel, education, telecom and health care sectors providing more job opportunities in 2015. 
The recent edition of the career data comes as a bi-annual report, assembled by monitoring the traffic on everjobs.lk. After starting with market predictions, the team used the website analytics to refine the findings into a usable report. 
“2015 had a strong close in active job listings as December data shows a pickup in hiring, and this might be evidence that hiring is hitting its stride. The number of openings hit an all-time high in July/August. While that sounds good, it also highlighted some of the challenges facing the labor market. There’s an evidence of a ‘skills gap’ between what job-seekers had to offer and what employers need,” said everjobs Sri Lanka Country Manager Niels van Klooster.
“Taking the number of applications received in the past 06 months, job-seekers are feeling confident enough to look for better prospects, a good sign about the health of the job market. More importantly, increased confidence may also signal workers are more willing to demand higher wages. That will help boost economic growth, though it may squeeze some corporate margins,” he added.
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everjobs is a job portal currently operating in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. Launched in March 2015 and led by Ronald Schuurs, everjobs aims to become the leading job portal in fast growing markets finding the right match for both, employers and candidates. The company is backed by Rocket Internet as well as the Asia Pacific Internet Group (APACIG).