Russia has been awarded only 32nd place in the list of countries desirable for work by the world community
Europeans were surveyed, as well as residents of Asia, northern and southern Africa, and Canada. Among post-Soviet countries, only the Baltic states and Ukraine were surveyed.
As Gazeta.Ru notes, job seekers to Russia (mostly people under 35) are attracted by high earnings (70%) and career prospects (58%). However, for many, good relations in the team and interesting work are no less important, and some see it as an excellent professional challenge (48%). The expectations are quite justified; many achieve their ambitious goals here.
"Foreigners make a career in Russia in 3-4 years, then they leave," says Mikhail Zhukov, CEO of HeadHunter. "And they pay here 30-50% more than in similar positions in the West."
And some manage to earn even several times more in Russia than at home. And such specialists, according to the observation of Inna Sumatokhina, managing partner of the recruiting company MarksMan, "do not want to return home and try to stay in our country for a very long time." But for the majority of foreign job seekers, this is not typical. According to the survey, 52% of them do not plan to stay abroad for more than 5 years, and 13% would not stay there for more than 2 years.
The majority of foreigners (69%) plan to live outside the city in Russia. This admission surprised researchers. "Perhaps such expectations arise among foreigners after stories of their successful compatriots," Sumatokhina suggested. "Some large international companies provide their top managers from abroad with suburban housing – on Rublyovka, in Nakhabino. Ordinary specialists should not count on such 'bonuses'. They may be provided with an apartment in the near Moscow suburbs, but rather for economy than for benefit."
Foreigners end up outside the city for another reason – they simply work in agriculture. "Germans, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks are involved here," says Zhukov. "They are technologists who know how to make production efficient."
The most interested in working in Russia, as the survey showed, are Finns: 36% of the surveyed representatives of this nationality, as well as Latvians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Estonians (14-20%). Among Europeans and Canadians, no more than 8-13% are interested in working in Russia, but this is also strange: so far specialists from these countries rarely come here. "It is profitable for a highly qualified Finnish specialist to work in Russia – a country with lower taxes," explains the interest of neighbors Alexey Zakharov, president of the recruiting portal SuperJob.ru. "But of the foreigners who would like to work here, only a few actually come."
This happens because Russian companies find it difficult to obtain quotas for foreign specialists. "In order to choose a foreigner, a Russian employer needs serious justifications – for example, the uniqueness of the potential employee, excellent experience or professional skills," Sumatokhina reminds. "Most often, foreign specialists can be attracted by large international companies as top managers or when launching or developing a new business."
But such managers are few among foreigners wishing to work in Russia. For example, the database of the recruiting portal SuperJob.ru, according to Zakharov, contains more than two thousand resumes of residents of the Baltic countries, but only 12% of them apply for middle and senior management positions abroad, while more than 60% of job seekers have blue-collar professions.
"Managers and technologists from Eastern Europe come to pass on their experience to local managers or to fill missing qualifications, as, for example, in telecom," Zhukov explains the situation. "By the way, many foreign companies, when starting operations in Russia, bring all their middle management for the first years." Every fourth job seeker wishing to work in Russia turned out to be an information technology specialist. And every third intended to find a job as a manager or consultant. Among top-level managers in banks and insurance companies, Zhukov adds, mostly French, Swedes, Germans, and also Americans are in demand in Russia.
• It should be noted that in most cases, the employment of foreign citizens occurs through intermediary structures. For example, if there is a job for a good specialist in Ufa, vacancies for it usually end up in the database of employment agencies. And there, among many resumes, specialists select the candidate. At the same time, the foreign job seeker does not pay for the job search. After all, filling vacancies is the task of the employer and the intermediary representing his interests.