Thu, 19 Feb, 2015 12:07:49 AM FTimes Report, Feb 19  File picture of Employment Office. Photo Lehtikuva. There were 19,800 job vacancies in the last quarter of 2014, which is 19 percent more than one year earlier, according to the Job Vacancy Survey of Statistics Finland. The number of the openings was16,600 in 2013.
In the whole of 2014, there were 28,500 job vacancies, on average, which is slightly fewer than in the previous year (29,500).
In all, 75 per cent of the job vacancies were in private enterprises in the last quarter of 2014, while the share was 65 per cent in the previous year, the data show.
The share of local and central government establishments in the job vacancies, however, decreased.
Examined by the industry of the establishment, the number of open job vacancies decreased from the year before in the industry group of manufacturing, mining and other manufacturing activities, and increased in most of the other industry groups.
In the last quarter of the year, 22 per cent of all openings were part-time positions, while a year earlier the share of part-time positions was nine per cent, according to the data.
The share of fixed-term positions in all open job vacancies was 34 per cent, which is three percentage points more than in the same quarter one year ago.
Employers estimated that 42 per cent of all open job vacancies were hard-to-fill, just like in the corresponding period last year.
The number of job vacancies can also be viewed on annual level as averages of the quarterly figures.
Examined on the annual level, the difficulties experienced by employers in filling the vacancies decreased. On average, 33 per cent of the vacancies in 2014 were assessed as hard-to-fill by the employers, while in 2013 the corresponding share was 41 per cent.
Job vacancies 2013/IV – 2014/IV
Job vacancies in 2013 – 2014
Source: Job vacancy survey 2014, 4th quarter. Statistics Finland.
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