In total, about 300 summer substitutes are needed in the care operations in Värnamo.
In Jönköping, about 1,200 substitutes are needed, but even there there have been fewer applicants this year.
- That no job and recruitment fairs have been arranged due to the pandemic, I think is one reason, says Lena Pettersson, HR manager at the social administration.
Competition for summer substitutes
She also believes that it comes into play that we have fairly low unemployment in the county.
- Then we have many large warehouses that also need summer substitutes, so there is a lot of competition.
Helena Gustavsson in Värnamo gives another explanation for why it is tougher this year than it was before last summer.
- Last year, it was a different situation, which helped us.
When many could not travel, they may have thought that they could just as easily work instead, this year more people probably still have a hope of perhaps being able to travel.
Good number of applicants in Nässjö
In Nässjö municipality, about 350 summer substitutes are needed for care.
- It is about the double that applies so we have good hope of solving this.
Then certain positions can be a little more difficult to fill, says Ingegerd Blomén, unit manager at the temporary employment agency in Nässjö municipality.
There are significantly fewer applicants than last year also in Nässjö.
- We were probably a little spoiled last year, when we experienced a huge upswing in the number of applicants.
Arranges recruitment meetings
In Jönköping, arrangements will be made tonight and on Tuesday next week so that interested parties can meet representatives from Jönköping municipality physically at the office in Juneporten.
- We make it corona safe, because we have seen that we have had good results from these meetings in previous years, says Lena Pettersson.
The social administration in Jönköping also offers a bonus of SEK 4,000 this year in addition to their regular salary to the substitutes who work at least eight weeks.