The HeadHunter Group started from 4 October 2016, a training program which would be developed in the six months to come, within the biggest Port Authority of Albania, the Durres Port.
The program foresees different training sessions with more of 400 staff and managers of the Port, about the health and safety at the workplace.
These training sessions are an institutional duty for the public sector, according to the Albanian law.
The successful collaboration between The Headhunter and MECCTI related to hiring stewardesses for the prestigious international flight company Kuwait Airways continues.
In the selection process organized in The Plaza Hotel in Tirana on March 12th, from around 70 participants from Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro, 15 best ones were selected.
The girls underwent physical and English tests and now 15 of them will move to Kuwait, where they will undergo a 3-month training that will give them the skills needed to become flight attendants.
Around 3 months ago, The Headhunter gave this opportunity to a considerable number of girls from the same countries, which are now at the end of their training and ready to start the flights and give a kick-start to their career.
Elton Ilirjani, founder of The Headhunter Group
What profession has been the most requested during 2016?
There have been a number of professions actually, which have been very requested. Starting from the ones that require high qualifications to the ones with average and low qualification. There aren’t many job seekers looking to get hired in the private sector in jobs such as engineers, mechanics, plumbers or carpenters. These professions, being very rare, cause the ones who work in these positions to be overloaded with requests or to be self-employed, so it is not necessary for them to be part of the job-search market. Most requests from job-seekers are for positions such as lawyer, human resources specialist, but also for drivers, cooks and especially for call centers, which, although are high in number, are always part of new employments. We also face a number of requests from students from law or social sciences, who are not clear what job they should look for. This year many girls expressed their wish to become stewardesses abroad. We recruited 20 of them only in the last month and we will recruit the same number or even more during February.
Which profession has the most job offers?
Sectors such as marketing, finance and banking always have something to offer. So, the ones specialized in accounting or finance with knowledge on marketing, have a higher probability to be employed. As said lately by Bill Gates, “Top three skills of the next five years will be the ones who have basic knowledge about informatics, mathematics and economy”. You don’t have to necessarily be a software developer or system developer, but, having some understanding on these fields, will be the key that will open more and more “job doors” in the future. Anyway, we shouldn’t leave behind craft works, because being a plumber, a carpenter or an electrician today is also a good chance to get a job.
Which professions have the highest salaries?
The ones with high qualifications and experience surely have the best economic treatment. Prestigious international companies, which are our clients or our partners, offer higher wages compared to the market or compared to what Albanian companies of the same profile offer.
What is your prediction for the job market for next year?
Next year will be undoubtedly better for the job market. Our company is looking to train through our project “People first” which has already begun, financed by USAID and Sweden government, 2 thousand young people and women, focused on the tourism sector. Hotels, restaurants and touristic bars where experts will train them, will be the first ones interested to hire these youngsters. We will be the intermediaries and we will work focused on achieving maximal employment of all the trainees. Tourism is undoubtedly the future of economic stability in Albania and we’re going this way.
Most required professions in Albania for high and average levels
1.Economy/Finance
2.Information technology
3.Marketing
4.Programme developer
5.Digital
6.Engineering
7.Mechatronics
8.Production/Chemical industry
9.Design
10.Services
(Note: This is a list created by the recruitment companies’ orientations and not by a proper market research.)
Average salaries for some of the professions
Financial chief – 3,000-4,000 euros
Finance specialist – 800-1,000 euros
Human resources director – 1,500-2,000 euros
IT engineer – 1,000-2,000 euros
Civil engineer – 10,000 euros
Mechatronics – 1000 euros
Cuisine chief – 800-1000 euros
The successful collaboration between The Headhunter and MECCTI related to hiring stewardesses for the prestigious international flight company Kuwait Airways continues.
In the selection process organized in The Hotel Europe in Sarajevo on April 16th 2017, from around 40 participants from Bosnia and Hercegovina, 14 best ones were selected.
The girls underwent physical and English tests and now 14 of them will move to Kuwait, where they will undergo a 2-month training that will give them the skills needed to become flight attendants.
Around 2 months ago, The Headhunter gave this opportunity to a considerable number of girls from the Bosnia and Hercegovina, which are now at the end of their training and ready to start the flights and give a kick-start to their career.
The Headhunter group, starting from January 1st 2017, does not only have a regional profile, but has now moved its activity to a global level.
Starting from the date mentioned above, The Headhunter has legally registered its branch in the United States of America, marking this way, maybe a unique case for an Albanian enterprise, taking its activity and being physically present in an inspirational country seen as a bright light of making business worldwide.
Now with “The Headhunter Karriera, LLC”, The Headhunter will start its activity in Houston, Texas, as a limited liability company.
After its branch in Athens created not long ago, with its reach as far as USA, one can surely say The Headhunter is making a dream come true, “The American Dream.”
Congratulations for this achievement go to the founder of The Headhunter, Mr. Elton Ilirjani and also to the never-tired and dedicated staff of this company.
For the second time The Headhunter Macedonia took part at the Annual Career Fair, which took place on the Southeast European University (SEEU) campus in Tetovo on 26th April 2017.
The participants had the chance to get informed about the variety of services and opportunities that The Headhunter offers to all students and job seekers on national and international market place.
With the career fair the SEEU offers to its student an opportunity to gain employment and internships at one of the approximately 40 companies and organizations that attended the fair this year.
The Career Fair provides an exceptional opportunity for students to discuss the applicability of their qualifications and skills with the demands of the labor market or the needs of a specific company.
The HeadHunter shpk, Albania’s largest human resource company, is pleased to announce the official launch of the LGBTIQ Employment Equality Index. The Index is Albania and Eastern Europe’s first-ever ranking system which objectively ranks how well companies protect and uphold the rights and dignity of LGBTIQ job-seekers and employees. It rewards those who have put a commitment to workplace diversity into practice. It also represents a great opportunity for companies, consumers and legal authorities to promote best practices in the employment sector. This is an occasion to communicate, educate and raise awareness against discrimination in the workplace.
The HeadHunter shpk Founder, Elton Illirjani, highlights this statement. “We see the issue of workplace inclusion everyday in our company’s work. For that reason, we created the Index as a way to tangibly contribute to bettering the lives of LGBTIQ Albanians. By leveraging the competitive spirit in the private sector, we created this Index to reward companies for their efforts for workplace inclusion of LGBTIQ persons and encourage companies to receive ever-higher rewards in future years.”
In this second year of the initiative, Albanian companies showed a great deal of interest in participating in the ranking and the total of 109 companies from multiple industries voluntarily took part in the research. Following a standardized format and methodology, The HeadHunter shpk staff conducted on-site interviews and verification of policies and practices. Out of the 109 companies, seven achieved a ranking of bronze, silver, or gold recognition.
Analysis of the findings has shown that workplace diversity policies, practices, and programs are generally lacking in Albania. If they do exist, they generally do not include LGBTIQ job-seekers and employees. Companies lack policies, practices, and trained human resource managers on the topic of workplace diversity.
Considering the findings, The HeadHunter shpk sees a tremendous need and demand for trainings on workplace diversity for companies in Albania as well as standardized policies and practices which companies can adapt and adopt. “For these two years findings, we were not surprised to see the lack of investments in workplace diversity,” says The HeadHunter shpk Founder, Elton Illirjani, “but rather than focus on the negative, we see a tremendous opportunity and interest of companies to adopt policies and train staff on this topic. We stand ready to offer this support to companies, building on their willingness and offering our technical skills.”
The HeadHunter shpk will introduce the result of the last Index on 31 August 2017, at Tirana International Hotel, Onufri Room, at 11:00 am. All the media and other stake-holders are invited to attend this interesting event, where the results of 2017 will be compared with those of 2016.
For further information on the Index, please visit http://headhunter.al/lgbtiq-index or contact the Project Manager, Dorina Laçi at: d.laci@headhunter.al
With the support of the United States Embassy in Tirana, “Rini Albania” Foundation, part of the The HeadHunter Group, will launch in the coming months the implementation of a training project and awareness on “Creating a culture of complaining relying on Albania Anti-Discrimination law”.
On focus of the project will be the discrimination in the workplace.
For this purpose, “Rini Albania”, in collaboration with important local institutions, will train and sensitize hundreds of potential job seekers and human resource managers of private companies in different cities of Albania.
The HeadHunter Group will make continuous reports regarding the implementation of this very important event.
Invited on TVSH to discuss about life-career balance, The Headhunter recruiter Ergesta Stermasi talked about if there is equality between men and women in Albania when it comes to work hours or salary.
Stermasi said that “In family level, in a simple family, the wife’s income may be higher for the same job in Albania done by the husband” by pointing out that situation in our country is not as discriminant as it may be in other countries.
About the correlation between productivity and work hours, recruitment expert at The Headhunter said that “There’s a reason why work hours have been reduced in some countries, because we are not productive 8 hours a day nonstop, we do not have a good performance. This makes us nervous, makes us not feel well. To have productivity, at least if the Albanian law is respected, everything is ok. But if people work extra hours, it is too much.
Asked if 8 working hours are really effective, Stermasi said:
“In between these 8 hours, there are moments of no working. There are never 8 hours, there are 6 or even less productive hours. But there are also companies who offer services in which there are 8 effective work hours. In the last minutes, the employees maybe have nothing left to give. This would make a mother of two to not be dedicated to her family if she works 8 hours. If we would be paid for extra hours, many employees would stay at work because they need these money, but if they are obligated to work extra hours for no payment, because the administrator or the owner makes them do it, this is another thing. There are companies who make employees work on Saturdays, even if it is for four hours, when it is day off by law”.
According to Stermasi, the secret to having a balance between work and life is by turning passions into work so that working is not a survival tool.
Asked if during job interviews recruiters rely more on CVs or characters, Stermasi said that the candidates often say they want to leave their job because they work from morning to evening, even on Saturdays.
But this often conflicts the employer, who prefer candidates with flexible hours.
For more, you can watch the video below:
Invited on TVSH to discuss about life-career balance, The Headhunter recruiter Ergesta Stermasi talked about if there is equality between men and women in Albania when it comes to work hours or salary.
Stermasi said that “In family level, in a simple family, the wife’s income may be higher for the same job in Albania done by the husband” by pointing out that situation in our country is not as discriminant as it may be in other countries.
About the correlation between productivity and work hours, recruitment expert at The Headhunter said that “There’s a reason why work hours have been reduced in some countries, because we are not productive 8 hours a day nonstop, we do not have a good performance. This makes us nervous, makes us not feel well. To have productivity, at least if the Albanian law is respected, everything is ok. But if people work extra hours, it is too much.
Asked if 8 working hours are really effective, Stermasi said:
“In between these 8 hours, there are moments of no working. There are never 8 hours, there are 6 or even less productive hours. But there are also companies who offer services in which there are 8 effective work hours. In the last minutes, the employees maybe have nothing left to give. This would make a mother of two to not be dedicated to her family if she works 8 hours. If we would be paid for extra hours, many employees would stay at work because they need these money, but if they are obligated to work extra hours for no payment, because the administrator or the owner makes them do it, this is another thing. There are companies who make employees work on Saturdays, even if it is for four hours, when it is day off by law”.
According to Stermasi, the secret to having a balance between work and life is by turning passions into work so that working is not a survival tool.
Asked if during job interviews recruiters rely more on CVs or characters, Stermasi said that the candidates often say they want to leave their job because they work from morning to evening, even on Saturdays.
But this often conflicts the employer, who prefer candidates with flexible hours.
For more, you can watch the video below:
The HeadHunter Group arranged on 05/09/2017 a Gala Event in the Palace of Brigades in Tirana (Albania), awarding 10 companies in the frame of the LGBTIQ Equality Index.
The Index is Albania and Eastern Europe’s first-ever ranking system which objectively ranks how well companies protect and uphold the rights and dignity of LGBTIQ job-seekers and employees.
It rewards those who have put a commitment to workplace diversity into practice. It also represents a great opportunity for companies, consumers and legal authorities to promote best practices in the employment sector.
In this second year of the initiative, Albanian companies showed a great deal of interest in participating in the ranking and the total of 109 companies from multiple industries voluntarily took part in the research. Following a standardized format and methodology, The HeadHunter shpk staff conducted on-site interviews and verification of policies and practices.
For this year, the awards were as follows:
Acknowledgement Certificates:
Companies: BAT, Club FM, Argjendari Pirro.
Bronze Awards: Plaza Hotel, Tirana Bank, NOA SHPK.
Silver Awards: Neptun shpk, ABKONS.
Gold Awards: British Council Albania, Vodafone Albania.
This event was attended by a large number of ambassadors of the European Union countries, as well as by the Council of Europe, US and UK ambassadors, who gave the prices to the winner companies.
