Austria’s Most Enticing Employers 2022

Universum Rating reveals that are the Most Enticing Employers in Austria for 2022

Wage is a very powerful for younger expertise and younger professionals  

• 10,000 college students at 33 Austrian universities and faculties surveyed  
• Work-life stability among the many high ten preferences for the primary time  
• Dwelling workplace extra essential in AT than in DE or CH  
• Public establishments and NPOs lose attractiveness 

Scarcity of Expert Employees – Job Postings Stagnate   

In line with the StepStone Expert Employee Atlas, 136,500 jobs have been marketed on Austria’s job portals within the third quarter of 2022 – 7,000 fewer jobs Austria-wide than within the earlier quarter.

For the primary time in two years, the entire variety of job postings declined barely as an alternative of accelerating.  

“We’re beginning to see a levelling at a really excessive stage,” saysNikolai Dürhammer, Managing Director of StepStone AT & CH. This nevertheless, doesn’t imply that there will likely be an easing on the labour market. “Though a recession is looming, corporations promote as a result of they urgently want staff. They’ve discovered a priceless takeaway from the pandemic: that it’s best to additional recruiting initiatives and entice high expertise. That’s in fact, not less than so long as their liquidity permits it.” 

Employer Branding is a precedence 

“The Employer Model is changing into more and more essential, as a result of what good is a robust shopper model if I can’t discover any staff? It’s essential to safe the perfect expertise,” explains Mats Röjdmark, CEO of Universum, the Employer Branding company of the StepStone Group. “In line with Universum’s EB NOW 2022 survery, Austrians are notably satisfied that with Employer Branding, the scenario could be mitigated- 70% of the worldwide consultants inside the personnel vary and 91% of Austrian respondents are satisfied that Employer Branding is excessive precedence”, stated Röjdmark. 

To do that, nevertheless, it’s needed to grasp what attracts sought-after professionals. Within the case of younger professionals, the present research offers the much-needed insights.  
 

Wage is most essential for younger expertise and profession starters  

A aggressive base wage is a very powerful standards for Austrian college students in relation to the attractiveness of a job. This 12 months, college students count on 6 p.c greater than what they anticipated final 12 months, particularly a mean annual gross wage of €39,400. Feminine college students count on round 17 p.c much less wage than their male counterparts.

“The financial sphere remains to be very dominant in Austria and, particularly in occasions of an worker market, evidently corporations can improve salaries in an effort to shortly entice expertise. Lengthy-term, nevertheless, such a transfer solely negatively impacts the expertise market. I like to recommend seeing wage as a hygiene issue whereas specializing in the remaining eight attributes. Additionally, I doubt that you simply need to entice these candidates who got here only for the wage.” 

Daniel Hauser, Employer Branding Specialist CH&AT. 

Versatile working circumstances are a must have  

“Versatile working circumstances” strikes up three locations in comparison with the earlier 12 months. In Austria, the flexibility to work from your private home workplace was extra essential than in Germany or Switzerland. Along with this, 64% of the surveyed college students count on a horny employer to supply some type of hybrid work fashions.   

Responses additionally footwear that almost all want to work a mean of two to a few days from dwelling per week. The distant work issue has a very excessive precedence for college students from engineering/IT and enterprise background, in addition to for “excessive achievers”, categorized asstudents with excellent success and the will to proceed this success. 

As well as, the responses whowed a direct correlation between age of the respondent, and the will to work at home. The older age of the respondent, the upper the will to work at home turned. With reference to different demographic breakdowns, ladies think about it to be much more essential.

“Now we have been capable of observe all through the DACH market that the expectations for versatile working circumstances in addition to the work-life stability have elevated strongly. This can be a clear signal from the market that these should not simply non permanent tendencies,”

explains Daniel Hauser, Employer Branding skilled at Universum.

Though frequently gaining recognition, there are additionally some considerations from respondents related to working remotely. The largest considerations uncommon:  

• Isolation and concern about lacking social contact with colleagues (56%).  
• Lack of involvement within the group (43%)  
• Employer choice for the workers who’re current (36%)  

• Concern of overworking and never having the specified work-life stability (25%) 

Trade winners and losers 

The preferred industries in 2022 are Audit & Consulting.  

The ‘Massive 4’ and McKinsey & Co managed to reverse the unfavorable development of earlier years. Employers within the automotive business are among the many largest winners in a number of of the key fields of research, a development additionally seen in Germany. “We’ve seen decrease curiosity within the automotive business in a number of markets in recent times. Throughout Covid, these have been related to short-time work, and fewer market success. Now that vegetation are again to completely operational, they appear to be gaining traction once more,” Hauser stated. Public establishments and non-profits are dropping their enchantment. Stability is not as essential because it was a 12 months in the past.

Prime 5 employers

Purple Bull and Google have been the favourites for Purple Bull and Google have been the favourites for enterprise college students because the begin of the research in 2008 and stay so this 12 months. Google as one of the vital enticing employers worldwide and Purple Bull as a profitable native participant carry out very properly in Austria. Microsoft is in third place and is making nice positive aspects (2021: seventh place) because the begin of the research in 2008 and stay so this 12 months. Google as one of the vital enticing employers worldwide and Purple Bull as a profitable native participant carry out very properly in Austria. Microsoft is in third place and is making nice positive aspects (2021: seventh place)