more than half of Russians want to change jobs – Kommersant

According to a survey by the recruiting company Get experts, 54% of Russians want to change jobs, the majority due to dissatisfaction with their salaries. A third of employers said they made efforts to retain employees.

Of those who want to change jobs, 17% of respondents are actively searching, 18% plan to start looking for a new job in the near future, 19% – no earlier than in a year. 20% of respondents are looking for work passively, considering only incoming offers. 26% do not intend to change their place of work.

Among the reasons for changing jobs, respondents cited dissatisfaction with financial remuneration (57%), lack of opportunity for career (35%) and professional (24%) growth, stress (22%), burnout (21%), lack of interesting tasks (21%). ).

65% of respondents declared their readiness to change their field of activity, another 7% are looking for work in another industry. 23% do not want to change it. 86% expect an increase in income after changing jobs. Of these, 8% expect wages to increase by 5–10%, 31% by 11–20%, and 49% by more than 20%. 6% are convinced that income will not change, 6% admitted its reduction.

Employers say it is becoming more difficult for them to attract qualified workers. They attribute this to rising salary expectations (48%), lack of competent personnel in the market (41%), and lack of specialized specialists (25%).

Companies are paying more attention to training employees (70%) and promoting them to other positions (58%). To attract personnel, they cooperate with universities (47%) and recruiting companies (35%), and also work to strengthen HR departments and consider candidates from other regions and industries. 11% of companies did not experience a shortage of personnel.

Among the main methods of finding candidates were websites (83%), direct search for specialists (51%), networking/word of mouth (43%). 32% of enterprises made efforts to retain employees by offering them an increase in income in their existing position (73%) or with expanded functionality (59%), as well as a promotion (44%) and an increase in bonuses (26%). 48% of companies did nothing.

42% of employers said that staff turnover remained unchanged in 2023, 37% said it would increase, and 16% said it would decrease. Most often, companies tried to retain specialists in the areas of sales (23%), production (20%) and IT (19%).

As a survey of Russian businesses conducted by Kommersant showed, employers have different assessments of the government initiative to create a five-year forecast of the economy’s personnel needs starting in 2024. Some companies, including state corporations, make such forecasts themselves ten years in advance, since their business requires long-term planning, and consider them to be quite reliable. Others, on the contrary, believe that the greatest accuracy in calculating personnel requirements is only on a one-year horizon.

Details – in the material “Kommersant” “Guess the profession”.

Laura Keffer