Work for professionals: where there is already a shortage of qualified workers today
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The demand for them is due to the need to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure, restore production and the service sector.
By data According to a study by the Work.ua portal, the largest number of vacancies in the first quarter of 2023 was precisely in the category of “labor specialties and production” – more than 12 thousand. The leader was the sphere of hotel and restaurant business and tourism, with more than 8,000 vacancies.
Statistics The State Employment Service shows five labor professions where, as of April 1, there are more vacancies than specialists: a seamstress, an electrician for the repair and maintenance of electrical equipment, a mechanic for repairing wheels and vehicles, a turner, and a plumber.
Representatives of labor professions are needed by all regions of Ukraine, but Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Ivano-Frankivsk regions are leading in the number of vacancies.
Industries where there is already a shortage of qualified workers today
Construction
Despite the war, new houses are being built. Wherever possible, roads, bridges, and critical infrastructure are being restored. Therefore, builders, masons, plasterers, tilers and other specialists in construction professions are in demand on the labor market.
The average salary in this category is UAH 18,000. The work of companies involved in the production of building materials and their delivery is also critically important for the country.
Catering
In the field of hotel and restaurant business, there is a revival and a shortage of qualified bartenders, cooks, confectioners, and bakers. The country will need those who cook under any conditions. The average salary of a cook – from UAH 16,000, of a chef – from UAH 40,000.
Sewing industry
A seamstress, a tailor, a tailor – specialists in this field are critically lacking in the country right now. Employers often turn to VET institutions that train sewing specialists, but there are still more vacancies than specialists.
At the State Employment Center in April, only 802 specialists applied for 1,541 seamstress vacancies. The average salary for this profession is UAH 16,000.
Maintenance and repair of cars
There is a shortage of turners, locksmiths, and auto mechanics in the field of vehicle maintenance and repair. These specialists are always needed at service stations, car service centers and repair workshops for the maintenance and repair of vehicles of various specializations.
The average salary of a car mechanic is UAH 27,000, a mechanic is UAH 25,000, and a turner is UAH 18,500.
Energy sphere
Missile attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure objects actualized the need to strengthen the independence of energy resources.
This creates a demand for representatives of labor professions in the energy industry: electricians, electromechanics, specialists in the installation and maintenance of wind power plants, solar batteries, and other specialists in alternative energy.
The average salary in this field is from UAH 25,000.
Qualities of a real pro
By data 2022-23 labor market research of the State Employment Center, 37% of employers cooperate with VET institutions. It is not difficult for specialists in labor specialties to find a job – even without work experience or with a minimum experience of 1-3 years.
But in addition to professional skills, a modern employee should have a high level of general development and certain character qualities.
Among the most important qualities of an ideal candidate for employers: responsibility, attentiveness, ability to learn, orientation to results, ability to work in a team, work with modern equipment, including digital, computer literacy, knowledge of foreign languages.
The level of education of modern domestic professional technicians is able to satisfy these requests.
Director of the Vinnytsia Higher Vocational School of the Service Sector, Valentina Balytska, notes that the entrants of her institution are students with a strong knowledge base and ambitions.
“Students with an average school certificate score of 9-10 come to us. All of them are focused on the result – quick learning and employment in a specialty and the ability to earn independently, – says the director. – They want to work already from the first year, besides, they demonstrate success in various fields.
So, last year, a student majoring in “Software Operator” Valentyna Maksymyak took first place in the Petro Yatsyk International Ukrainian Language Competition.
And students Maksym Kozlovskyi and Ivan Zakharchuk were among the 100 most successful students of the course “Alphabet from the basics of housing and communal management” of the DTEK Project “Energy-efficient schools: a new generation”.
Vocational technical students refute gender stereotypes regarding the choice of professions. For example, the idea that cooking is a woman’s job.
“Many boys enroll in the profession of chef, in some groups there are even more of them than girls. The boys are very motivated, from the first day they say: “I want to be a chef!”.
And, indeed, many of our successful graduates hold leadership positions. And girls also enter the traditionally “male” specialty of “installer of radio-electronic equipment”, – says Valentina Balytska.
Popular professions at the school are mastered by both school graduates and adults. The profession of seamstress, cook, hairdresser, and car mechanic can be obtained in a shortened cycle of 2.5 months.
The director emphasizes that her institution has quality conditions for the training of labor specialists.
“Even in the conditions of war, our students study face-to-face and have enough industrial practice. For this purpose, the school is equipped with three educational and practical centers with the latest equipment”– says Valentina Balytska.
– In some specialties, we practice a dual form of education, which involves a proportion of 30% – theoretical training, 70% – practical work. Also, thanks to cooperation with the EU, our students can study on foreign exchange programs and master labor specialties according to world standards.
We provide the possibility of retraining for vulnerable categories of the population, – in particular for internally displaced persons. The school has a regional order for all specialties.
In addition, we have more than three hundred contracts with businesses and state enterprises, thanks to which we can provide students with industrial practice and employment. We monitor the employment of graduates, especially in the first three years.
Many of them have their own restaurant business or work as restaurant chefs, open their own beauty salons, tailoring workshops, auto repair shops. Our car mechanics work at all service stations in Vinnytsia and our area.
In addition, the work of vocational students provides a volunteer rear.”
Students already feel the need for their professional skills in the country. At the beginning of the full-scale war, they prepared food for the soldiers of Vinnytsia TRO, wove camouflage nets, and made anti-tank hedgehogs.
Now, every week they bake confectionery for the soldiers being treated in the regional hospital, sew clothes and underwear for wounded soldiers, etc.
Natalka Shamanova
This publication was prepared with the support of the European Union and its member states Germany, Finland, Poland and Estonia within the framework of the “EU4Skills: Better skills for modern Ukraine” program.
The program aims to provide support in the implementation of the reform of professional education and the modernization of the infrastructure of selected educational institutions.
The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of its authors and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union, its Member States or the Programme.
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