As a result, traffic has gone up on these websites. Revenues, however, did not go up that much. Position: assistant manager. Type of offer: full time. Company name: confidential. Industry: advertising. Salary: n/a. Neither the position nor the few details that come with the ad published at the end of February would have attracted more than a few hundred applicants a year ago. Back then, the human resources market was still working in the employees’ favour, as they had enough better jobs that paid more to choose from.

The position would not necessarily seem attractive even now, when the advertising industry in particular is suffering from the difficult economic period, except that more than 12,000 people submitted their CVs for it. On the same website, an ad for a regional sales manager for a printing company had more than 2,500 people apply for it. ”Whereas major online job recruitment sites had 200 applicants for a position on the average until now, today their number exceeds 500, depending on the job offered, which shows there are more candidates available,” notes Iuliana Badea, sales manager of Lugera & Makler. Growth is generated, on the one hand, by the high number of people out of a job and on the other hand, by the employees who hope to find a better job in these unstable times.

Traducere de Loredana Fratila-Cristescu si Daniela Stoican