“Profit ratios dropped very much, with increased costs and salaries, and specialists are fewer,” Softwin Group’s PR Manager, Cosmin Mares, told Business Standard. For now, Softwin, the main Romanian IT solutions provider, is not interested in outsourcing opportunities on the Romanian market, according to Mares.
The necessary work force for this type of business is hard to find. “All large outsourcing companies complain about the crisis of specialists and good programmers,” Softwin’s representative said.. “It is useless to say «Come to Romania to open an outsourcing business!» because we lack the necessary resources to uphold such investments,” he added.
“We do not have a solution for this crisis, as long as Romanian education system can not provide one. Even if it did, it will only be in 4-5 years that the market would refresh,” added Mares. The specialists moving from one company to another are educated by the very companies they have left. “Companies became genuine universities,” he said.
In-house specialization of students by outsourcing companies involves lesser costs than recruiting specialists on the free market.
