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"About 40,000 people leave a year", VOA: Businesses in Albania in difficulty for qualified workforce

2023-03-25 20:43:41Biznes SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"About 40,000 people leave a year", VOA: Businesses in Albania in
Albania, business and the need for qualified workers

In Albania, the rapid development of the tourism and construction sectors in recent years has highlighted the need for more specialists and qualified employees to respond to these rates. Currently, in 11 centers of the country, there are 37 public vocational schools with 23 courses, attended by about 18,300 students. The director of the vocational school "Hamdi Bushati" in Shkodër, Merita Zeneli, says that from year to year the school has been adapting to the needs of the labor market.

“Drejtimet që janë zgjedh, janë sjellë në vartësi të kërkesave që ka pasë tregu. Drejtimet më të kërkuara sot janë hoteleri-turizmi dhe ekonomi-biznesi. Hoteleri-turizmi sepse është shumë më e gjërë dhe janë shërbime që janë në mënyrë të vazhdueshme më të kërkuara. Por edhe ekonomi-biznesi nuk ngelet pas, sepse nxënësit, pasi mbarojnë shkollën e mesme, kanë mundësi të mira për të vazhduar edhe shkollën e lartë”, thotë ajo.

Në shkollën e mesme profesionale “Hamdi Bushati’ mësojnë rreth 700 nxënës në degët hoteleri-turizëm, ekonomi-biznes dhe tekstil-konfeksione. Përveç praktikave brenda shkollës, ata kryejnë rregullisht praktikat mësimore edhe pranë bizneseve të zonës. Çdo vit, nga kjo shkollë diplomohen, në të tre degët e saj si teknikë të mesëm, rreth 150 nxënës, por jo të gjithë përfshihen në tregun vendas të punës pasi një pjesë prej tyre largohen duke kërkuar punë në Europë, ku edhe njihet diploma e tyre.

“Shikojmë që çdo ditë e më tepër ka nevojë për fuqi punëtore, por, në momentin që kemi një nxënës të kualifikuar, pra një punëtor të kualifikuar dhe një pagesë të mirë, atëherë edhe punësimet do të vijnë. Kemi vërejtur se rreth 73% e nxënësve janë punësuar pas përfundimit të shkollës dhe ky është një tregues i mirë. Ndërsa më pak se 10% janë larguar jashtë shtetit”, thotë drejtoresha e shkollës profesionale “Hamdi Bushati” në Shkodër, Merita Zeneli.

In Albania, the tourism sector has moved faster than the preparation of specialists and qualified employees. Professor Mirjam Dibra, who heads the tourism department at the University of Shkodra, says that this was the reason for opening the tourism department, where students, even through professional practices inside and outside the country, are trained to work and manage the tourism sector.

"In addition to practice, as part of the curriculum, students have the opportunity to develop practices in Germany and Italy. Likewise, we continue to work for a one-year internship in America, where three groups of students, 14 in total, have been sent, and we hope that the good work they are doing will pave the way for other students. But, I ask the tourism businesses to highly appreciate this contingent that comes so prepared from working in prestigious American resorts", says Professor Mirjam Dibra.

In recent years, about 40,000 people a year leave Albania for emigration, most of them at a young age, some newly graduated in medicine, nursing, or in the field of tourism. Professor Dibra says that it is necessary for the tourism business, in the conditions where it is eager for qualified employees, to motivate the newly graduated young specialists and evaluate them with a dignified salary, so that they serve within the country.

"At this moment, when the minimum wage has increased and tourism businesses are hungry for labor, I say that young people can find themselves much better in our tourism industry, which is already starting to mature and understand how important skilled labor is. So, I think it is a turning point in the history of the development of the tourism industry in Albania in terms of the evaluation of the workforce", she says.

While in Albania, from year to year, the demand for tourist services is growing rapidly, a survey by the United Nations Development Program, UNDP, conducted in the fall of 2022 in hotel businesses, has concluded that 56% have felt the lack of manpower and that, at the peak of the summer tourist season, most of them worked with deficiencies in their staffs./ VOA


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