Kdo ma neco v hlave - tak emigruje!

Brain drain may pose national problem
SLOVAKIA
9 July 2007 - Issue : 737


The increased level of young people finding work in foreign countries
could present problems for companies that have chosen to invest in
Slovakia and the Czech Republic, according to a recent labour-market
analysis, according to an Internet survey on the Jobs.cz and
Profesia.sk websites that was carried out during the first half of
2007 on the sample of 968 young Slovaks and 1,038 young Czechs, Slovak
Spectator reported on July 3.

According to the survey, the situation in Slovakia is worse than in
the Czech Republic because many educated Slovaks go to work in the
Czech Republic to take advantage of the higher salaries and greater
purchasing power of the Czech crown.

According to Profesia.sk, only 14 percent of the Slovak respondents
would not look for a job abroad and 24 percent of the Czech
respondents said that they do not intend to work abroad.

Foreign investors that have come to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
looking for a cheap and ready labour force are having problems finding
it, read an analysis by the Czech HR consultants LMC, which deals with
the online labour market.

According to the analysis, the CEE labour market has only a small
workforce that is qualified and available as most of the older
population in pre-retirement age is not able to meet foreign
companies' qualification requirements.