Tbilisi (GBC) – As part of the BAG index inquiry, 60.2% of the companies cannot attract skillful and qualified personnel.

This category of companies have named three key reasons: educational programs in Georgia mismatch the market requirements, while the corresponding educational programs are very few or they do not exist at all.

To tackle the problems with staff qualifications, the companies try to train personnel themselves. 82% of the inquired companies train the staff themselves.

At thee same time, 44.3% of the companies use the resource of other training centers. Furthermore, companies actively cooperate with higher and vocational schools, while part of them have opened their own training centers.

Because of insufficient knowledge, the companies cannot attract skilful personnel. 47.6% of the inquired companies assert that it is very difficult to find highly-qualified personnel.

„All in all, the last survey that we conducted in the current quarter proves that 51.4% of the companies complain about problems with attracting qualified workforce”, the report authors noted.