Job seekers aspiring ‘telco’ jobs: everjobs.lk career report
Access to high-quality telecommunication services is critical to economic development, business growth and attracting investments. Despite being licensed by the state to limit full competition, Sri Lankan telecommunication sector has experienced rapid growth, making telecom as one of the major catalysts in accelerating economic growth.
According to the latest data from the everjobs.lk career report, job seekers in Sri Lanka are aspiring ‘telco’ jobs, followed by banking & financial services, manufacturing, IT and apparel sector jobs.
The recent edition of the career report is assembled by monitoring the traffic on everjobs.lk. After starting with market predictions, the team used the website analytics to refine the findings into a usable report.
“The sheer rate at which the Sri Lankan telecom industry is growing can be attributed to growing smart phone usage and broadband penetration. There are abundant telecom job opportunities lying in telecom sector with contemporary trends like mobile education, mobile health, mobile banking, etc. In fact, around 20% population in cities and 80% in villages are dependent on mobiles.” commented everjobs Sri Lanka Country Manager Niels van Klooster.
“Employment growth will differ among the various occupations in the telecommunications industry, largely as a result of technology change. The telecom sector needs highly talented technician and business talent to meet its burgeoning expansion plan targets. Major telecom jobs are produced in diversified sectors like product management, customer support, manufacturing and managed services and remote telecommunication. ” he added.
“With a potential user base of 20 million people, the telecom players have a positive future to look forward to. This also means good time for jobseekers as the number of telco jobs are going to exponentially increase in the coming years.” read a testimonial from a prominent Sri Lankan Angel investor. “There is a great demand of qualified and skilled professionals with hands on experience and good knowledge. Telecom players are attracting talent by offering lucrative telecom job packages in order to boost their expansion plans. ”
About everjobs
everjobs is a job portal currently operating in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. Launched in March 2015 and led by Ronald Schuurs, everjobs aims to become the leading job portal in fast growing markets finding the right match for both, employers and candidates. The company is backed by Rocket Internet as well as the Asia Pacific Internet Group (APACIG)
