Job opportunities have increased despite the Covid-19 pandemic; Bank of Ghana (BoG) data has shown.
The number of jobs advertised in the Daily Graphic in April 2020 increased relative to a year ago. The total advertised jobs was 1,389 jobs as at April 2020 compared with 859 advertised jobs in the same period of 2019, indicating a year-on-year growth of 61.7 percent.
According to the Bank of Ghana’s Monetary Policy report on the real sector development, on month-on-month basis, the number of job vacancies in April was up by 39.6 percent from the 995 jobs recorded in March. These developments resulted in an uptick in the Job Adverts Index to 270.2 in April 2020 from 193.6 in March. Cumulatively, 3,711 advertised jobs were recorded between January and April 2020, compared with 3,198 jobs advertised during the same period in 2019.
The number of online jobs collated by BoG from the top 10 online job-advertising platforms was 2,434 in April. Sector distribution of online job adverts show that the services sector accounted for 78.8 percent of total jobs vacancies advertised.
The shares of online job adverts of the service subsectors were as follows: finance, insurance and real estate (20.9%); other services (13.5%); wholesale & retail trade (12.3%); transport, storage & communication (7.9%); and health (6.7%).
The industry sector accounted 16.6 percent of total online job adverts, under which construction held a share of 5.5 percent; manufacturing (5.3%); and mining & quarrying (4.8%). The agriculture sector had a 4.7 percent share of total online job vacancies posted.
Concerning skills demand by potential employers, ‘skilled labour’ was the most sought after with 45.3 percent of job offers in this category. This was followed by sales and other service workers (36.1%), artisans and machine operators (11.7%), secretarial & clericals (5.4%), and other skills (1.5%).
Source: Kofi Ahovi//Businessweekghana.com
