The multinationals in Romania are seeing more and more job applications coming from abroad, many of which are even submitted by people from Western Europe. According to specialists, the foreign candidates willing to work here have come to see the Romanian market as a way to help springboard their career advancement, as economical development is in full swing. People are convinced that they can grow with the economic environment here and that they can learn much faster than they would in other less effervescent areas.
The job hunt targets every domain from services to manufacturing, and, most of the time, financial demands are not higher than those of the domestic candidates.
"There are young or even somewhat older people in the banking system that are not part of the top management range who are interested to come to Romania and develop their competency, earning a reasonable salary," stated Florin Luca, human resources manager of BRD Groupe Societe Generale. He believes that working in the Romanian retail banking market is far more interesting than gaining experience in a Western country, where the market is already settled and possibilities for growth are not as big as they are in an emerging economy.
"Possibilities for individual development are much greater in Romania than they are in the West, and what I mean here is, taking responsibilities, learning and developing competencies, and salaries," Luca explained.
According to its HR manager, BRD Groupe-Societe Generale has five foreign nationals working for it now, expats excluded, and CVs keep coming in, which was not happening two years ago.
Besides French applicants, the bank has caught the eye of some Americans, Hungarians, Czechs and even Africans.
Still, he added, the foreign candidate that wants to work for BRD Groupe Societe Generale has to come with "added value", bring something more to the organisation, or else bringing them on board would be pointless.
"There are some people experienced in corporate banking, others are experienced in emerging countries, while others bring their expertise in terms of intercultural work," Luca specified.
He found that, unlike most Romanians, the foreigners that come to work here do not necessarily intend to become bosses but instead settle for intermediary or operational duties, and salaries are equal to those of Romanian employees, even though their initial expectations are higher.
Another company targeted by foreigners is Automobile Dacia. This happens even though Dacia, as its human resources manager Alain Duval says, has no special employment criterion for foreigners and focuses on attracting and retaining valuable Romanian personnel instead.
Other than the neighbouring countries, such as Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine, the human resources department of the carmaker gets a lot of CVs from Renault''s homeland, France, where, Duval says, many engineers were impressed with the Logan. Apart from the management, there are about ten foreigners working for Dacia of whom most are French.
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