Ukrainian industrial park developer Alterra Group has established its own recruitment agency and considers importing workers from India due to a severe labor shortage caused by military conscription and the refugee crisis in Ukraine, the founder said.
"For my company, the labor shortage is quite an issue, as well as for any manufacturer in Ukraine," said Alterra founder and CEO Dmytro Kovalchuk. "To address this issue, we have established an HR agency, which is working on searching for personnel."
"We were considering inviting people from foreign countries to work in Ukraine, and we have such a project with India right now but, still, it takes time," Kovalchuk said at a breakfast meeting Tuesday with the German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Ukraine) in Kyiv.
"When we have a company that decides to build premises in an industrial park, our HR agency starts to work with this company to (meet) its requirement of personnel and skills. It has around one year to fix this issue, so the labor force is in place when the production starts," he explained.
Kovalchuk added that he thinks retraining and re-education of the Ukrainians who remain in their homeland will help solve the issue in the long term, besides the expected return of many of the refugees when the war ends.
Kovalchuk attended the AHK breakfast meeting to speak on the future of industrial parks in Ukraine. Currently, there are 91 registered industrial parks in the Eastern European country.
