AmCham Human Resources Committee: Developing innovative workforce is not a task for one ministry
The Czech Government says it wants an innovative economy. Do stats back them up? AmCham Human Resources Committee held a hybrid session in June with Jana Skalková, the chief advisor to Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, to discuss how innovative our workforce has become.
58.8% of all researchers employed in Czechia work in the private sector. That is below the EU average.
Czechia had 51.7 Bachelor students In STEM per 1000 in 2022, 19 master’s students, and 9.8 doctoral students. Many people say we need more females in STEM. We rank 14th in the EU in female STEM students. We rank 15th in male STEM students. Maybe we should push for both.
The number of skilled immigrants has declined from 1 for approximately every 2 unskilled immigrants in 2015 to 1 skilled immigrant for every 3 unskilled immigrant in 2023. Some of that can be attributed to Ukrainian refugees, but this trend has increased every year since 2015.
The numbers tell a different story than the multiple national strategies the Government has crafted to guide our economy.
We agreed to work together to search for why the outcome of policy is diverging so much from its stated intention.
Developing innovative workforce is not a task for one ministry.
Many thanks to Jana Skalková, chief advisor to Minister Marian Jurečka, AmCham Vice President Jaroslava Rezlerová, Country Manager at ManpowerGroup Czech Republic and AmCham immigration lead Miroslav Mejtský, Partner, Petyovský & Partners for leading the session, and to Jaroslav Bělehrad, Head of HR at Y Soft, Filip Franek, Public Policy Manager CZ & SK at Amazon and Filip Šváb, Executive Director, International External Affairs, CEE at AT&T for providing insights and inspiration.
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