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TIGRAN AND TARON SHOULD DRIVE BUSES
JAMES HAKOBYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments27860.html
Published: 14:23:07 - 26/10/2012
On October 25 the issue of jobs was discussed during the meeting
of government. Prime Minister Sargsyan expressed concern about the
shortage of qualified personnel. He thinks this shortage slows down
the development of IT. The chemical company of Vanadzor states that
it needs 150 workers and therefore is unable to launch its work. Mayor
Margaryan announced that they need 300 people for buses for a monthly
salary of 80,000 drams.
Tigran Sargsyan has stated that the shortage of qualified personnel
is serious and lack of progress may lead to grave consequences.
Armenia certainly faces a shortage of labor. And this shortage has
different reasons. For example, Taron Margaryan invites 300 people
and offers them 80,000 drams a month which is about 200 dollars. Now
would Taron Margaryan agree to work for 80,000 drams if he were not
a businessman and the mayor and did not have several houses and cars?
And how many hours and under what conditions will those people have to
drive a bus in such terrible traffic as is in Yerevan? How much should
their return be? Very often there is labor and qualified personnel
but there are no more or less acceptable conditions. A person driving
a bus for 80,000 drams a month may soon have a nervous breakdown due
to the traffic, working conditions and his daily return target.
It is a fact that there is a shortage of qualified personnel in
Armenia. In addition, the shortage is especially an urgent issue
for the public administration system where ministers do not have a
proper education and are not used to thinking and all they can utter
is some phrases from textbooks and lectures which often have nothing
to do with life in Armenia. Evidence to this is the frequent need of
serious review of draft legislation worked out in different ministries
with both professional and orthographic shortcomings.
Why do unqualified personnel appear in public administration? Because
there is no qualified personnel or because not all the qualified
personnel are children of rich daddies and can work in the state
system to enjoy the fruits of their own businesses and use their
state service to multiply those fruits?
The point is that qualified personnel require adequate conditions. One
of the important attributes of professionalism is self-esteem. It
means that qualified personnel require adequate conditions.
Moreover, if attractive conditions are offered, people will even
borrow money to get training and compete for jobs.
The behavior of companies is also a problem. In Armenia very few
companies can organize professional training at least for their own
personnel needs.
Tigran Sargsyan noted shortage of IT specialists. Heads of IT companies
also say so. On the other hand, we can often hear that Armenia has an
IT potential because we have a human resource so we are not supposed
to have a shortage of human resource. However, most professionals
are offered high paid jobs abroad. Hence, if local companies are
not competitive with foreign companies in terms of remuneration,
they should think of other mechanisms to become competitive in other
ways. These mechanisms may be effective, because people may prefer
living in their home country to high salaries abroad.
The general atmosphere in the country also matters. A lot of people
prefer a low salary abroad to remaining in their home country. This
is another issue and a wider topic. But this contingent is not big
and the issue requires a solution at another level.
As to qualified personnel, it is possible to sum up with a reference
to the correlation of demand and supply which might not be fully
applicable to this case but may describe the general situation
in Armenia.
JAMES HAKOBYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments27860.html
Published: 14:23:07 - 26/10/2012
On October 25 the issue of jobs was discussed during the meeting
of government. Prime Minister Sargsyan expressed concern about the
shortage of qualified personnel. He thinks this shortage slows down
the development of IT. The chemical company of Vanadzor states that
it needs 150 workers and therefore is unable to launch its work. Mayor
Margaryan announced that they need 300 people for buses for a monthly
salary of 80,000 drams.
Tigran Sargsyan has stated that the shortage of qualified personnel
is serious and lack of progress may lead to grave consequences.
Armenia certainly faces a shortage of labor. And this shortage has
different reasons. For example, Taron Margaryan invites 300 people
and offers them 80,000 drams a month which is about 200 dollars. Now
would Taron Margaryan agree to work for 80,000 drams if he were not
a businessman and the mayor and did not have several houses and cars?
And how many hours and under what conditions will those people have to
drive a bus in such terrible traffic as is in Yerevan? How much should
their return be? Very often there is labor and qualified personnel
but there are no more or less acceptable conditions. A person driving
a bus for 80,000 drams a month may soon have a nervous breakdown due
to the traffic, working conditions and his daily return target.
It is a fact that there is a shortage of qualified personnel in
Armenia. In addition, the shortage is especially an urgent issue
for the public administration system where ministers do not have a
proper education and are not used to thinking and all they can utter
is some phrases from textbooks and lectures which often have nothing
to do with life in Armenia. Evidence to this is the frequent need of
serious review of draft legislation worked out in different ministries
with both professional and orthographic shortcomings.
Why do unqualified personnel appear in public administration? Because
there is no qualified personnel or because not all the qualified
personnel are children of rich daddies and can work in the state
system to enjoy the fruits of their own businesses and use their
state service to multiply those fruits?
The point is that qualified personnel require adequate conditions. One
of the important attributes of professionalism is self-esteem. It
means that qualified personnel require adequate conditions.
Moreover, if attractive conditions are offered, people will even
borrow money to get training and compete for jobs.
The behavior of companies is also a problem. In Armenia very few
companies can organize professional training at least for their own
personnel needs.
Tigran Sargsyan noted shortage of IT specialists. Heads of IT companies
also say so. On the other hand, we can often hear that Armenia has an
IT potential because we have a human resource so we are not supposed
to have a shortage of human resource. However, most professionals
are offered high paid jobs abroad. Hence, if local companies are
not competitive with foreign companies in terms of remuneration,
they should think of other mechanisms to become competitive in other
ways. These mechanisms may be effective, because people may prefer
living in their home country to high salaries abroad.
The general atmosphere in the country also matters. A lot of people
prefer a low salary abroad to remaining in their home country. This
is another issue and a wider topic. But this contingent is not big
and the issue requires a solution at another level.
As to qualified personnel, it is possible to sum up with a reference
to the correlation of demand and supply which might not be fully
applicable to this case but may describe the general situation
in Armenia.