Economic sciences/5. Human Resources Management

Student of the 4^th course Syzdykova K.E.

Research manager: candidate of economic sciences, professor Jumambayev S.K.

Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi, Kazakhstan

The development problems of the recruitment market of Kazakhstan

 Kazakhstan’s recruitment has a short historical period. For the first time of its coming to market businessmen were not able to understand what should they pay for. Otherwise, foreign business representatives was looking for the «Recruitment agency» in various directories and requested for personnel selection.

Three factors influenced on the development of recruitment in Kazakhstan:

1) multinational companies appearance;

2) great number of enthusiasts who trained on different courses and trainings;

3) availability of specialists, who were able to increase company’s income and status, for hiring whom companies were ready to pay quarter or even third of annual salary of mentioned worker.

Nowadays recruitment in our country is fast-paced, at the same time competing with similar business in Russia and Europe. Some experts, who investigates job market, claim that this business’ turnover has measured up to 250$ billion all over the world. Moreover, around 1% of able-bodied population of the planet is taking part in recruitment processes. There are upward of 1000 recruitment agencies in Russia. Regarding to Kazakhstan, some specialists say that the turnover of Kazakhstan recruitment is around 0.5$ to 1$ million with average annual rising – 20%. According to some research, the number of recruitment agencies climbed from 3 to 15 in the first 10 years of their appearance on job market. What interrupts the faster dynamic is that professional search and selection highly develops in cities with population over 1 million people. There is only one city in Kazakhstan which answers mentioned requirement – Almaty. [1]

Recruitment is playing the key role on the Kazakhstan job market. This is because, Kazakhstan has a lot of minerals and there is a low number of human resources. Many companies are starving from “HR hunger”. The reason is that the recruitment is covering only 2% of able-bodied population.

It needs a large period of time and serious investments in the employees development in order to solve the problem with human resources. Large foreign companies spend a big part of budget and resources so as to organize professional development. This is because companies are taking part in everyday market competition and as result are oriented on team education and training. Sales managers, technologists, heads of production and directors, oil and gas specialists are supposed to be in a special account.

Currently recruitment is thriving in big cities of Kazakhstan like Almaty, capital of the country – Astana and Caspian region. There are 6512 companies on the potential service consumers market, that is taking 6,8% of all the market. In other words, it means that the problem of the consumers market development is still existing. Recruitment agencies on level with personnel search and selection offer the consulting service in order to champion for clients. The observable trend on the Kazakhstan recruitment market is that recruiters are specialize on a definite market or even field section. [2]

Unfortunately, there is no teaching of the principles and technology of personnel search and election in Kazakhstan, that is why frequently new agencies are ready to offer damping prices for the service with doubtful quality. An employer receives a great volume of resumes instead of three accurately searched and evaluated candidates, and will have to select them by himself. This method of work ruins recruitment reputation. Another issues of the Kazakhstan recruitment market:

● Often clients do not understand all of the finesses of recruitment;

● There is no united standards of recruitment agencies work.

Online recruitment – one of the innovative directions in Kazakhstan recruitment improvement. The number of job-sites is rising, but the main problem of this type of service is low internet penetration of Kazakhstan population, especially in regions. The future of Kazakhstan recruitment market will include online recruitment. [3]

The level of recruitment activity in Kazakhstan is one the highest all over the world. Retail companies are keeping expansion on Kazakhstan market, whilst opening representative centers not only in big cities, but also in regions, that cause high demand on specialists of all levels. There is also pharmaceutical, FMCG companies, banks and recruitment agencies involves in the process. On the other hand, there is still lack of professionals with good background and experience in the fields like heavy engineering, technical consulting in mining, sales, manufacture.

In conclusion, must be said that whereas some critics say that new cycle of the crisis is coming, the job market practically does not react on pessimistic set of the fund market. The companies is continuing to open new vacancies. Thus, companies-employers, who develop their business and are ready to expand the team, and job searchers, whose number is sharply increasing, are positively tuned. [4]

Literature

1. Гульзара Адилова, Генеральный директор кадрового агентства JIB Express. Рекрутмент в Казахстане. Международный деловой журнал KAZAKHSTAN №1, 2002 год - [electrical resource] - Access mode. - URL: investkz.com/journals/30/357.html

2. Круглый стол "Дорогое удовольствие Central Asia"/ Pedersen & Partners Executive Search - [electrical resource] - Access mode. - URL: https://www.pedersenandpartners.com/sites/default/files/public/in-the-media/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%20%D0%97D0%B0%20%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC_0.pdf

3. Рынок рекрутмента в Казахстане - [electrical resource] - Access mode. - URL: http://planetahr.ru/publication/2762/26/110

4. Активность найма на высоте - Практика бизнеса - Журнал Бизнес Life для начинающих предпринимателей и опытных бизнесменов - [electrical resource] - Access mode. - URL: http://www.bizlife.kz/article/show/id/73