Grant Thornton: employers lower requirements for candidates

In the average job offer in 2015, the list of requirements specified by the employer consisted of 6.7 items (such as experience, education, languages, certificates and knowledge of handling specific programs), while currently the number stands at just 5.2, according to the “Labor market under the magnifying glass” report by the auditing and consulting company Grant Thornton.

“The number of candidates willing to work is record low. It is hardly surprising that employers are forced to compromise and significantly lower their requirements for candidates. The largest decrease among the requirements was in ‘education,’” said Monika Łosiewicz, a recruitment manager at Grant Thornton.

Minimum experience requirements used to be found in 70% of job ads – now the percentage is only 56%. Employers have reduced their expectations regarding education even more, as the percentage of job offers with this requirement fell over the last four years from 64% to 44%. Less and less often, employers expect employees to know foreign languages – the percentage has fallen from 44% to 37%.

(ISBnews)