The human recourses market is oriented mainly to service sector specialties rather than to production ones. This year, the secondary school and lyceum graduates chose mainly education institutions training specialists in medicine, technology and IT engineering, where salaries are higher, sociologist Petru Negura has told IPN.

The sociologist noted that Moldova’s economy is poorly developed and this reality is reflected in the industrial sector, which has a narrow range of occupations. “We are a country oriented to services, not production. For example, we do not have students who would like to study such a specialty as ‘car making’ because our economy does not have such a sector. The applicants choose mainly well-paid jobs,” said Petru Negura.

He also said that this gap on the labor market appeared about 20 years ago and maintained the supply and demand of services on the market, the ‘technocrat’ specialties being now excessively neglected. “The IT sector satisfies particular demands for services, but Moldova needs also an industrial sector and specialists who would develop it,” stated Petru Negura.

As to the production-based labor market, the sociologist said the construction sector is the most generous one. “In Moldova they still build something and architects, engineers and mechanics are needed. But no other professions are in demand here,” he stated.

More than 16,000 applications to fill places at Moldova’s universities have been submitted so far.
In the first admission round, the applicants chose mainly such specialties as law, medicine, economy, telecommunications and foreign languages. The second round will take place on August 6-11.