Number of job vacancies rises to 49,500 in Q2

The number of job vacancies in the second quarter of 2018 stood at 49,500, compared to 36,800 in the corresponding period of 2017, according to the data of Statistics Finland.

In April-July 2018, in total 37,000 or 75 per cent of the job vacancies were in the private sector, while one year earlier the sector’s corresponding share was 71 per cent.

Compared to the corresponding period of last year, the number of job vacancies increased most in establishments with 10 to 49 employees (total 4,900) and in the Helsinki-Uusimaa region (5,300). Examined by the industry of the establishment, growth was biggest in manufacturing, mining and quarrying and other industries (2,900).

In the second quarter of the year, 19 per cent of all job vacancies were part-time positions and 39 per cent were fixed-term. The shares of both types of vacancies grew by six percentage points from one year ago. Employers estimated that around half of all vacancies were hard to fill as was in the corresponding quarter of last year. For example, establishments in construction and manufacturing had plenty of jobs considered hard to fill.