ROZEE.PK, Pakistan's leading job portal in its recent survey draws a linear trend over past two years for the applications received per job posting in various functional areas. Approximately 8.14 million job applications were analysed to determine which of the functional areas invited the most attention for the users and whether the respective field created enough opportunities to meet the supply.
Talking about the survey, Monis Rahman, CEO ROZEE.PK said, "The purpose of the survey is to enlighten all the prospective job-seekers to tap into the market gaps that are under-supplied and to inform prospective employers about the level of attractiveness the job's functional area represents to the job-seeker."
ROZEE.PK's survey analyses 63 such unique functions where employers are seeking labour and where they are not. As many as 46 percent of these are under the threat of being over supplied (excessively in some instances) by labour force. Functional areas including Accounts & Finance, Procurement, Sales and Training & Development have shown a consistent oversupply of labour over the years and will continue to do so.
Discussing the results, he said "The increase in applications received to job postings could be attributed to two factors: one, the decline in the jobs being posted within the category (as seen in the functional area of Sales and Training & Development), showing a higher labour supply but a diminishing demand of labour over the years; and two, the attractiveness the job title entails to the job-seekers. The average job postings per month have been consistent through most of the functional areas, whereas the applications being received are creeping up."
The other 54 percent functional areas where over the last two years the application per job ratio has declined include Project Management, Database Administrator, Systems Analyst and Human Resource. Although the rate of job postings has increased over time, yet the rate of applications being received over time doesn't mirror the rise. Hence, this causes a sharp decline in applications received over time and signals an under-supply of labour within these functional areas, the survey indicated.
The survey said that 19.20 percent job-seekers' trend is towards Corporate Affairs, 10.8 percent warehousing, 8.05 accounts and finance, 7.75 percent planning and development, 5.75 legal affairs, 5.4 percent financial services, 4.98 percent procurement, 3.91 percent quality control, 2.75 percent executive management, 2.29 percent architects, 2.27 maintenance / repairs, 2.06 percent health and medicine and 2.02 percent sales.