HOW HAS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CHANGED THE RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION GAME IN THE IT INDUSTRY? A ROMANIAN PERSPECTIVE
HOW HAS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CHANGED THE RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION GAME IN THE IT INDUSTRY? A ROMANIAN PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Ruxandra Ciulu
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy, National Economy, Sociology, Health and medicine and law, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: COVID; pandemic; recruitment; selection; IT; Romania;
Summary/Abstract: For many years, the IT industry has been quite globalized, as companies started looking for talent outside of their national borders and specialists were willing to relocate in order to get interesting jobs. The restrictions in place during the COVID-19 pandemic took the IT industry to a completely new level of globalization, as it became a full work from home exercise that lasted, depending on the country, from a few months to two years. This brought along both challenges and opportunities for candidates and for companies in the world of IT. From the perspective of developing countries that play an important role in software development, Romania included, there are important effects that generated changes in the preferences of the local workforce and drove salary levels up, close to those in Western Europe. The current exploratory study aims at identifying the perspective of IT recruitment companies in Romania on the changes that occurred on the market since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic started.

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