Career Report Sri Lanka:

More jobs in healthcare sector

For finance and human resource professionals, jobs don't get much better than this. A recent Everjobs career report showed accounting and auditing, human resource and administrative job roles to be in high demand, especially in the rapidly expanding healthcare sector of Sri Lanka. It also revealed an emerging demand for project management specialists.

The career report was assembled by monitoring the traffic on Everjobs.lk during June. In the past month, job listings in the healthcare sector have increased by several fold, not just for medical professionals but for finance, human resource and administrative jobs too. The primary reason for this is the increasing number of clinics and outpatient care establishments presenting various opportunities for professionals in the industry.

"It's easy to typecast the people who seek employment in different sectors, but it's important to remember that there are all kinds of different occupations in any particular industry," Managing Director, Everjobs Sri Lanka, Sascha Woelk said.

"Besides the healthcare sector, there's a fair surge in telecommunication, import and export, financial services and retail sectors that offer good prospects for finance, human resource and administrative specialists, regardless of what goods or services they produce," he added.

"Healthcare will continue to grow faster and provide some of the best-paying professional jobs in the country," read a testimonial from a candidate who successfully landed one of the HR roles listed by a leading outpatient care establishment. It added, "There's a need for skills development initiatives in the healthcare sector. We also need to focus on additional support in creating awareness around career options."

Everjobs, a job portal, operates in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, Cameroon, Senegal, Ivory Coast and Uganda. Launched in March 2015, Everjobs aims to become the leading job portal in fast growing economies finding the right match for employers and candidates.