Investment revenues after the end of hostilities may continue, 74% of Ukrainians surveyed believe so, 16% do not believe in it and another 10% bother to answer, according to the results of the Gradus Research survey of professional mobility of Ukrainians against the background of human capital crisis.
According to it, 84% of respondents believe in the creation of new jobs after the end of hostilities, 13% do not believe and another 5% found it difficult to answer.
“Attracting older people to the labor market is another stream that is now being discussed widely in the business community. 70% of people of retirement age are willing to consider a job after retirement. The reason is the same: pensions are small, insufficient, people are ready to work as long as they can,” said Eugenia Bliznyuk, founder and director of the research company, during the presentation of the study at the Kyiv International Economic Forum (KIEF) on Thursday.
According to her, the main barriers that are important for the elderly are the limited number of vacancies for them.
As for Ukrainians in general, the majority consider changing profession as a real step to improve the quality of life: more than 64% of respondents are ready to learn a new profession to remain competitive in the labor market.
In addition, 73% of respondents noted that they have changed their occupation at least once, 18% have changed their job more than three times in the last three years.
The majority of respondents wishing to change jobs in the next year prefer to find employment in Ukraine – 82%. However, 9% consider the possibility of working abroad, which emphasizes the importance of creating promising jobs within the country.
Decent salary level (67%), social package (40%) and official employment (40%), comfortable working conditions (39%) are the most important for the interviewed Ukrainians when choosing a place of work.
Also 70% of respondents noted that their main motive for changing profession is the opportunity to receive a higher salary. Other important factors include flexible working hours and job security after training. This indicates that Ukrainians strive for a work-life balance.
At the same time, among the main barriers that complicate mastering a new profession, the surveyed Ukrainians named high cost of training (55%), difficulty in acquiring the necessary skills (38%) and insufficient level of skills (34%).
The majority of surveyed citizens support the idea that women can work in traditionally “male” fields (58%), but barriers remain. The main difficulties for women in such occupations are the physical characteristics of the occupations (69%), the difficulty of balancing work and family (43%), stereotypes (36%), unequal pay (30%) and lack of appropriate infrastructure (26%).
