Strong points:

- very well qualified staff personal;

- increasing absorption potentialities on the internal market;
- compartments of research-design with a good professional level;
- companies with certificate for the quality management system;
- implementation of EU directives and application of the European technical standards
- increase of the export quality and quantities
- work experience
- education level and the quality of it
- technical expertise
- transferable skills
- personal characteristics
- good networking contacts
- associations, business groups
- potentialities for a horizontal industry diversified in the field.
- the labour market dynamic, determined by the regional economy dynamic (but with
important intraregional differences)
- the prevalence of young labour work force
- important part of the occupied population located here
- the existence of the professional reconversion and forming programmes
- high degree of involving in education
- the existence of academic centres in almost all counties situated nearby (Prahova - Ploieti,
Dmbovia - Trgovite, Arge Piteti and, of course, Bucharest)
- the existence of the continuous forming and distance learning in these centers.
Weak points:
- lack of work experience
- limited education, wrong major
- limited technical knowledge
- lack of job knowledge
- weak interpersonal skills
- negative personal characteristics
- the political situation is relatively unstable
- the relatively low country rating granted to Romania by the specialized agencies generates a
prudential attitude from the side of the big investors of portfolio from abroad.
- the economy of Romania is, to a large extent, dependent on the capital infusions from
abroad, which is influencing negatively both the economic performances of the country and
those of the capital market.
- the diminution of the active and employed population in areas like Prahova, Dmbovia
- the weak number of higher schooling employed people in nearby areas
- the lack of employing opportunities especially in the countryside
- the lack of material motivation of unemployed people
- the educational offer in not proper to the future needs of qualification.
- there are not possibilities of getting to know the future needs
- the qualification offer is not varied enough and there is no competition among the ones who
offer forming.
- the ones who offer forming act separately, there is no global offer adapted to regional needs
- insufficient conditions to integrate disabled groups of people
- unequal and insufficient capacity and structure of services and social facilities

- few regional centers of professional forming

Opportunities:
- positive trends in our field
- enhancing education
- fields in need of certain skills
- geography-ability to move
- strengthening individual networking
- utilizing skills in different way
- enhancing personal development
- the harmonization of the legislative framework from our country with the stipulations of the
European Union Directives
- the taxation quota of 16%, considered as being relatively low comparatively with those
recorded in other European countries, is representing a factor which might bring down the
investors upon the capital market from our country.
- relatively easy access of the potential investors on this market.
- the number of companies that find stability conditions in this area and human resources
which can be used
- the educational system improving
- the orientation of the programs to specializations demanded by the labour market
- the entrepreneurship development
- the lohn investments represented a solution on short term for the available labour force
absorption (for example the textile industry)
- the social programmes for both women and men in the labour market including The
cooperation with other countries (like France, Great Britain) in education and professional
forming.
Threats:
- industry (trends, new etc.)
- cost (training, education, certifications etc.)
- time (needed vs have)
- negative trends in our field
- competition in our field
- training and education obstacles
- limited advancement in field
- limited ability to develop
- limited positions in our area
- the transfer of some industries with high labour force consumption towards countries with
lower salaries;
- the perpetuance of the negative effects of the international economic and financial crisis over
the forthcoming periods
- the dependency of the Romanian economy on the international developments can be
considered as a potential danger
- the fluctuations on the labour market depend dramatically on the movements of European
market regarding both great enterprises and the small ones, especially now, after the UE
integration
- the migration of qualified labour force towards countries members of the European Union
represents a threatening process having effects in the present as well as later on

- the presence and the deepening of new social events (illegal work, social rejections,
unemployment)
- the rise of the unemployment among people who graduated high-school and university
- the high qualified people migration.