HELSINKI: There were 48,000 open job vacancies in the first quarter of 2016, which is nine per cent more than one year earlier when the number was 43,900, according to the Job Vacancy Survey of Statistics Finland.
The number of open job vacancies went down in the major region of Helsinki-Uusimaa but increased in other major regions. The reference period of the data is 1 March. In the first quarter of 2016, in all, 39,000 or 81 per cent of the job vacancies were in establishments owned by private enterprises, while one year earlier the corresponding share was 75 per cent, the data show.
The number of open job vacancies went down compared with the quarter one year earlier in establishments of under-five employees but increased in bigger establishments.
Examined by the industry of the establishment, job vacancies increased most in the industry groups of manufacturing, mining and other manufacturing activities and in trade, transportation and storage, accommodation and food service activities.
In the first quarter of the year, 58 per cent of all open job vacancies were fixed-term positions while one year earlier the corresponding share was 55 per cent. The share of part-time jobs in all open job vacancies was 20 per cent, or almost the same as one year earlier.
Employers estimated that 28 per cent of the job vacancies in the first quarter were hard to fill while one year earlier the corresponding share was 25 per cent. Statistics Finland has been collecting data on open job vacancies quarterly since 2002. The data collection includes approximately 2,500 different establishments in every quarter.
