Labour issues in Hungary (& in CSE) March 19, 2009
Posted by debreczeni in Labour issues, Machinery.add a comment
Finnagora www.finnagora.hu organised a good & really interactive seminar on Hungarian-Finnish Vocational Training. I was asked to give a presnetation on the topic from a “foreign investor point of view”. So I summerized the last 2 years learning from subcontracting & investment location studies. I have also conatcted some Finnish businessmen to get their views on the regional competitiveness on labour!
The main outcomes I would like to share are the followings:
- Still the unique & more complex manufacturing and coding demand could utilise the regional resources, the mass ones of course going to China & India
- Even the educational systems in trouble in CSE – underfinanced operations, image of teachers and bad reputation of “productive” jobs such welders, CNC-turner, still the regional work force even in Slovekia & Hungary is still commited to work and innovative & cheaper than in Scandinavia!
- Enterpreneurship is still not part of this “youngsters” thinking & even they are not flexible to find job even within the country!
- The participations of companies with financial support or even involvment of “future” educational needs are weak. Just in Hungary the whole centralised regional educational centers were established in 2006, forcing private & public sector to work on & develope educational systems (programs) for the future needs of labour market! – with strong EU subsidies!
Please see my slides attached!
Pulse 09 Survey in CSE March 16, 2009
Posted by debreczeni in Construction, Logistics, Machinery, Market trends.add a comment
Better way to understand the current situation in the financial crisies if we collect the ”facts & feelings” from the field. That is why, we with some collegues conducted a survey as follows
- The covered sectors were: Construction, Logistics & Machinery sector
- The geographical coverage was Central and Southeast Europe: Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria & Turkey
- Heads of relevant associations and three major companies were contacted
- Methodology was a phone-based survey
- Around 100 managers & association experts were contacted
- Conducted in February 2009.
- Idea is to repeat in six moths!
Special note: the survey was not built on representative primary research approach , it just gave some “feelings” & summarize some ”subjective thoughts” from market players` point of views.
Some main findings:
More details are coming soon!
