russian software developing industry and software exports

Chapter 6.
Human Resources and the Labor Market Situation
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Share of companies which don't have shortage
of personnel by companies' turnover
50%
up to 0.5 MUSD
43%
from 0.5 MUSD
to 4 MUSD
38%
from 4 MUSD
to 20 MUSD
14%
over 20 MUSD
Most wanted specialists in 2008 by companies' location
(frequency of mentioning by companies)
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
The release of big numbers of software developers
from IT departments of different businesses is
confirmed by data submitted by recruitment
agencies. According to HeadHunter (source: CNews
publication) the labor market situation has radically
changed for web-developers and Flash-developers.
If in March 2008 the index of demand was 0.24 и
0.22, in March 2009 it was – 2.74 и 1.2. This index
is calculated as the ratio of the number of resumes
sent to recruitment agencies to the number of
vacancies. It follows that is prior to the crisis there
were more vacancies than resumes, now the situation
has reversed.
According to HeadHunter data published in
May 2009 in Vedomosti, in April 2008 the number
of vacancies for С/С++, Java, Delphi, Oracle and
1С developers twice exceeded the number of
candidates, but a year later the same position is
competed between 3–4 specialists on average.
Developer
(C/C++)
13%
13%
24%
33%
COOPERATION
WITH UNIVERSITIES
Developer
(Java)
Developer
(C #)
Developer
(DB)
Tester
Web-developer
(PHP/ MySQL)
Web-developer
(ASP. Net/ MS SQL)
System
administrator
(Win)
System
administrator
(UNIX)
0%
0%
0%
0%
5%
4%
5%
4%
0%
0%
4%
0%
5%
4%
2%
8%
8%
8%
8%
8%
7%
8%
7%
8%
7%
10%
13%
13%
12%
Moscow
Novosibirsk
21%
20%
21%
St. Petersburg
Others
Due to the decreased demand for staff the
number of companies cooperating with universities
has also reduced. Following the suspension of mass
recruitment of specialists such forms of cooperation
as «Student internship» and «Job placement for
graduates» have become irrelevant for many
companies. The conducting of «Training courses for
staff» depends on the volume of new orders and in
the context of the crisis has also become less popular.
The share of surveyed companies not cooperating
with universities increased more than twice and
reached 42%. At the same time absolutely all major
companies continue to work with universities, at least
they practice «Student internship». Nevertheless,
other forms of cooperation («Job placement for
graduates» and «Training courses for staff») are also
used by the companies with a turnover over 20 MUSD.
The maximum number of companies that ceased
their contacts with universities is among those with
a turnover from 0.5 MUSD to 4 MUSD. The number of
the smallest companies (turnover less than 0.5 MUSD)
cooperating with universities have even increased
against year-on-year. This may be explained by the
fact that such companies try to save on the salary of
programmers and find new employees among students.
The least proportion of such specialists is recorded
in the major companies although they collaborate
with universities most actively (it should be noted that
in absolute value major companies generally recruit
more graduates than any other group of companies
studied here). The largest concentration of graduates
is registered in companies with a turnover from 0.5
MUSD to 4 MUSD, this group being least involved in
cooperation with universities.
Graduates more easily find jobs with companies
primarily oriented at the Russian market rather than
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