Companies from tech and banking industries offer the best employment to Ukrainians, according to a ranking by business magazine Forbes Ukraine and job-seeking website Work.ua.
Ukraine’s top five employers are tobacco company JTI, mobile operator Kyivstar, private bank ProCredit Bank, agriculture company Kernel and tech firm Intellias, according to the ranking.
Overall, the list includes 50 firms, both Ukrainian and foreign with local offices. Ten of them are banks and seven are tech firms.
To compile the ranking, Forbes and Work.ua have polled 11,000 employees from 150 local firms, as well as market experts and other sources.
The ranking took into account employees’ loyalty, salary, information openness, social packages, possibilities to grow professionally, available time off, as well as the feeling that the management cares about people during the pandemic.
The average salary at JTI, the best employer, is Hr 32,182, or $1,150. Kyivstar pays $1,100 on average, ProCredit Bank — $1,300, Kernel — $280.
In all the 50 companies included in the ranking, at least 50% of the employees are loyal — they are ready to recommend their employer to their friends and relatives.
In Ukraine, the demand for tech specialists is high and that’s why employers try to lure people with better conditions, according to Vitaliy Sedler, CEO of tech firm Intellias, the fifth-best employer in the ranking.
“In the IT market, we see a huge competition for professionals. The key to the success of any IT company is, above all, professional and talented people,” Sedler said in a statement sent to the Kyiv Post.
The company claims to be paying close attention to creating comfortable working conditions and listening to the feedback of its employees. According to online tech portal DOU.ua, Intellias is the 12th biggest employer in Ukraine’s tech industry, having 1,500 people on staff.
The demand for IT specialists grew by 50% in the third quarter of 2020 compared to April-June, according to tech company GlobalLogic.
The banks in Ukraine are also well-represented in the ranking.
Apart from ProCredit Bank, the list includes oligarch Rinat Akhmetov’s First Ukrainian International Bank, two state-owned banks PrivatBank and UkrGasBank, Ukrainian private bank Pivdenny Bank, two French banks UkrSibbank and Credit Agricole, Austrian Raiffeisen Bank Aval, Hungary’s OTP Bank, and Russia’s Alfa-Bank.
As of December 2020, there were 75 banks in Ukraine, 35 of them have foreign capital, including ProCredit Bank, which belongs to ProCredit Group based in Germany.
