Poll: Russians told to whom it is easier to find work in crisis

More than half of Russians believe that the crisis is easiest to find a job IT professionals and workers. It is reported TASS with reference to the results of a survey conducted by the software developer for business management “Megaplan”.

31% of respondents suggested that to find a job in a crisis is not difficult to specialists in sales, 12% — accountants, 11%, former executives, a 10% logistics and 7% in the legal profession.

a third of the respondents admitted that over the past two months their company was downsizing. 49% said the reduction affected their acquaintances, friends or relatives.

the Survey was conducted from 3 to 5 may in the cities of the Russian Federation. It was attended by 1 thousand 892 employee, Manager and owner of the company.

3 Jun soobshili that the unemployment rate in Russia (the ratio of unemployed persons to the labour force) in April 2020 was 5.8% for the population aged 15 and older. Such data led the Federal state statistics service.

At the same time Rosstat introduced a quarterly “picture” of unemployment by subjects of the Russian Federation, and the indicators vary considerably in regional terms.

So, the highest unemployment rate in the first quarter of 2020 registered in the Republic of Ingushetia (26,6%), the Republic of North Ossetia — Alania (14,1%), Dagestan Republic (13,9%), Chechnya (13.3%) and Karachay-Cherkessia (13,1%).

According to Rosstat, the three regions with the lowest unemployment in the reporting period constitute Petersburg (1.5 percent), Moscow (1,6%) and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (1,8%).

Rosstat said that the labour force aged 15 years and older in April amounted to 74.5 million people, of whom 70.2 per million people were classified as engaged in economic activity, and 4.3 million people — as unemployed under the criteria of the ILO (that is had no work or profitable occupation, looking for work and was readyyou to start it in surveyed week).

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