The budgetary, face to face with the real labor market. Why it's not easy for them to take the step towards private

Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan recently urged the budgets who will be fired from public positions to engage in the private environment, where they are “real jobs in which money is earned honestly“.truth“But I say that the process will be quite difficult.

Budgets will not be easy to engage in private

The specialists consulted by “Adevărul” have scored some of the differences between the two working environments, including the more alert rhythm in private than in the state, with multiple tasks and shorter dead-lines, plus the fact that in the private environment of the job, as is the right, including the right to strike when you consider it wrong.

“The passage from the public sector to the private environment is not an easy road, but not impossible. The essential difference is the attitude: the desire to learn, the courage to accept new rhythms and the opening to change. The experience accumulated in institutions can be a solid basis, but what matters in the private is the ability to deliver results and adapt to you.

The difference between an employee in the public sector and one in the private environment does not necessarily be aware, but in mentality and work rate. I saw professionals who, once they wanted to learn, evolve and take on clear responsibilities, have adapted quickly and successfully regardless of the environment from which they came.

From my point of view, a professional who chooses to leave the comfort zone and take on the standards of the private environment has every chance to succeed. Personal adaptability and motivation weigh more than the “budget” or “private” labeltold “Adevărul” Cristina Georgeta Vintilă, Payroll specialist and the founder of the CV group accounting expert.

There will be great adaptation issues

For his part, Roxana Epure, the representative of a software company that implements the fiscal changes, said that in the private environment the work schedule is longer, and the number of days of rest is lower than in the state.

“I do not generalize. Some are competent, others are accustomed to a slower pace, which is not at all specific to the private environment. I think the challenges of adaptation will exist: a longer work schedule, which must be respected, less holidays, for example.

Another challenge will be for them to adapt in a high performance environment, constantly measured in performance indicators, monthly, annual objectives, to constant performance assessments. In the state institutions, when it comes to digitalization, we can barely see the tip of the iceberg, and the consequence of the budgetary employees is that they do not have high level digital skills.

In the world we live in, where business should be used for technology to remain relevant in their industries, digital skills are must have. The same thing about the services they offer to customers: we always look at what their customers want, what they need, and client empathy and orientation are a mandatory approach.

It can, therefore, but it can be a challenge for some of them, not only find a job, but to perform“says Roxana Epure, Managing Partner Nextup, software company that implements fiscal changes.

It will be necessary to recalify

On the other hand, not only the differences in work and rhythm can create problems for the budgets who want to engage in the private environment, but also their skills and the qualification they have, there can be situations in which even the recalification will be needed, as Mona Bardos, business consultant and founder of the courses and consulting and consulting the small group.

“From the perspective of the private environment and entrepreneurs from the community the group of small entrepreneurs in Romania, with over 60,000 members, the transition from a budgetary to a private job is not so simple and I speak of a little personal experience in this regard.

The organizational culture is fundamentally different: in the public system the emphasis falls on procedures, stability and predictability while in the private environment the emphasis is mainly on results, adaptability and speed. In private companies, especially in SMEs the rhythm is much more alert with multiple simultaneous tasks, tight terms and the permanent need to find fast solutions. There is constant pressure on efficiency, assuming responsibility and client orientation, which for many of those accustomed to state stability can be a real shock.

Of course some budgets can bring real value in private especially through their administrative experience and rigor of processes, but most will need a serious process of adaptation through trainings (communication, time management, pressure management, result oriented) to cope with“She said.

“We do not allow ourselves to be adaptation school”

This emphasized that the private environment constantly needs a workforce, “But by people who also have the skills needed to contribute immediately ”.

“We cannot afford especially now in the context of instability and numerous legislative changes to be the” adaptation school “for thousands of people without relevant experience. Entrepreneurs need people prepared to deliver from day one, not after months of integration.

Therefore, if this transition is real, it must be accompanied by retraining programs and institutional support.

In other words, there is a solution, but it involves a well thought out intermediate step. Without this step, we risk having a wave of unprepared employees and wearing an obstacle to already overworked entrepreneurs who will lead to nothing good for the economy, nor for society. It depends on the skills of each and the opening to learning. Some can do the transition successfully, bringing in private rigor and valuable experience, but for many there will be constant support, training and coaching to integrate into an environment with completely different rules ”added Mona Bardos for “Adevărul”.

Ilie Bolojan is sure that the administration availability will find jobs

We remind that Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said recently that the state employees who would be fired through the fiscal-budgetary reforms concerning the public administration can be engaged in the private environment, where they are ”Real jobs, in which money is earned honestly ”.

“At the moment, the private environment in Romania, from many places does not have to hire and the faster we make, the more money we will save from the Romanian state and we will not be able to increase taxes and taxes, we will be able to continue investments that will generate jobs. honestly.replied Ilie Bolojan.

As for the Prime Minister's Chancellery, Ilie Bolojan said that in this structure of the administration the reduction of staff will exceed 30% and will approach 40%, announcing that a project in this regard will be made public in the next period.