Work for refugees: The largest offer comes from the new website in Prague
Before Easter, the portal promoted seven hundred positions from all over the Czech Republic. Most of these offers, over two hundred, come from Prague. The Central Bohemian Region added another sixty. According to the service’s initiators, the choice of opportunities for refugees has been steadily growing since the beginning of the project. In the last week, about ten positions per day.
“From the point of view of industries, the offers copy the situation on the labor market in the Czech Republic, so the predominant number of them are from trade and services, especially in the position in retail, catering or hospitality. Professions such as salesman, chef, service, hotel maid, but also programmer and various positions in construction are most often in demand. We can also meet a surveyor, designer, nurse or accountant, “said Jakub Hájek, Director of the Division of Startups and Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of the CzechInvest Agency. According to Hájek, the new platform helps war refugees “stand on their own two feet”.
On the Jobs4ua.cz website, for example, there is a demand for a chef for a luxury hotel in the center of Prague for a salary of CZK 37,000 per month. It requires experience in the field and basics of English. Most job offers, namely eighty, were published by the Albert retail chain. The bilingual website also has answers to the questions that most often interest both Ukrainian employees and Czech employers. These are questions such as – what is the difference between gross and net wages, how to get involved in health insurance or what does the employer have to look after before offering a job?
“We continue to improve the platform and complete the translations. In the future, we would like to expand the website with the possibility of filtering the offers that offer accommodation, as well as information about business opportunities, free assistance with starting a business or any related ones, for example in the area of the new space. Some of the refugees did business in Ukraine and there is no reason why they could not use this experience in the Czech Republic, “added CzechInvest spokesman David Hořínek.
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The reliability of employers is checked by CzechInvest or the platform partners Jobs4ua.cz. Only long-term and proven clients of CzechInvest or members of partner organizations, such as the Czech Chamber of Commerce, the Confederation of Industry and Transport of the Czech Republic, etc., can advertise a job offer on this website.
As the owner of the Prague development group JRD Group Jan Řežáb proves from his own experience, job opportunities are often more difficult for refugees from Ukraine outside Prague. Rezab accommodated more than a hundred Ukrainian families in the Jablonec region at his own expense. “I watched a huge psychological boost for those people when they could start working and integrate children into schools and schools. In the traditional glass region, after a slowdown in the industry, the labor supply is weaker for women, who make up the vast majority of adult refugees. 60 percent of our group has managed to employ women, and other options are already sufficient, “said the entrepreneur at the Meeting with the Mayor, which was organized by Deník. “It is essential to provide them with Czech language instruction and recognition of professional certificates, plus immediate provision of a school and a school for their children,” Řežáb said.