An Angola job search study published on Tuesday shows a “small presence of foreigners seeking employment opportunities” in the country (around 2%), with Portuguese, Brazilians and Mozambicans leading the way.
“This suggests a small presence of foreigners seeking employment opportunities in Angola and a strong language barrier, even for relatively complex job offers,” according to Jobartis and the Center for Economic Research (Cinvetec) of the University of Luciada in Angola, the organizations that prepared the study.
In terms of job candidates by nationality, the report said the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDCongo), which shares an extensive land and sea border with Angola, is one of the countries with the least representation, despite the existence of thousands of Congolese. citizens who have lived in Angola for decades and dozens of people who are stopped every week by border authorities for attempting to immigrate illegally.
Present in 18 Angolan provinces, Congolese engage mainly in informal activities, especially trading, in markets, streets, sidewalks and/or even outside their homes, where they sell a little bit of everything.
The report, prepared by Jobartis – an online job portal in Angola – and Cinvetec in collaboration with CRH Comunidade de Recursos Humanos (CRH) Angola, includes data collected between 2020 and December 31, 2023.
The Jobartis database includes information from 50 thousand candidates, two thousand companies and 10 thousand job offers, and on average the portal receives 10,965 job applications per quarter.
Services, manufacturing, trade, construction and telecommunications are among the most representative activity categories.
The province of Luanda, which is the center of the country’s economic activity and the site of the greatest penetration of the Jobartis portal, dominates the demand and supply of jobs.
In terms of job supply and demand during this period, the number of applicants continued to far outnumber the number of vacancies, with the number of vacancies provided by companies between 2022 and 2023 absorbing an average of only 23% of applicants.
According to the report, in the second quarter of 2022 and the fourth quarter of 2023, demand and supply coverage increased to 54% and 94%, respectively, with 5,000 form filling jobs opening and 10,000 call center openings in 2023.
Data analysis indicates a predominance of men among job candidates: on average for the quarter, 67% were men versus 33% women. However, as the study highlights, women’s participation is increasing.
Salary analysis shows a predominance of women in the lowest salary categories and men in the highest. “This inequality persists in both actual and desired wages, suggesting a perception of limited opportunities for women to achieve higher wages.”
Expectations for changing jobs are “high for both sexes,” the text emphasizes: about 62-63% of respondents consider it very likely that they will change jobs in the coming months. The data points to “widespread dissatisfaction and desire for mobility in the labor market regardless of gender,” he adds.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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