employment outlook

About 20% of Romanian employers see a moderate growth in their staff numbers in the second quarter of 2011, and the most optimistic hiring expectations come from the processing industry sector, according to a Manpower survey released Tuesday.

Romanian employers rank last in the world with respect to their hiring plans in the January-March 2010 interval, employment service company Manpower said in a survey.

Only 28% of companies worldwide are seeking to hire people in the first quarter of 2009, down four percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2008, and Romania has the most positive hiring outlook in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, according to a survey of human resources company Manpow