Workforce
The Czech Republic: The skills hub of central Europe
The Czech Republic is home to a motivated workforce is with a high degree of responsiveness to training and interest in continual professional and personal growth. The quality of this highly skilled workforce is evidenced by existing investors’ expansion plans.
The Czech Republic is already recognized as a prime location for European services-sector expansion and hosts an increasing number of business-support, research and customer-oriented services including expert solution centres, data processing and call centres as well as regional headquarters, value-added distribution centres and technology parks. The Czech government extended its successful manufacturing incentives’ scheme to include investment projects in business support services and technology centres (see the Fact Sheet on investment incentives). Employment in high-tech services and manufacturing is also very prominent in the Czech Republic, providing input for the innovation activities of other firms in all sectors of the economy.
Language Skills
The Czech Republic devotes special attention to enhancing language skills. The proportion of secondarylevel students studying English is as high in vocational courses as in academic areas, and at 95% is high by European standards.
English and German dominate foreign-language education. English predominates in primary schools while German is taught more often at secondary schools. Seventy-six percent of university students study one foreign language, 20% study two and 4% study three or more foreign languages.
