In February, there were 318 planned hirings, down by 140 units compared to last month, but over 100 more (+47%) than in February last year, when the job market continued to struggle due to the pandemic Covid and tougher restrictions were in place to try to contain the infections. 22,7% of the expected income concerns young people.
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Hiring 2022: the sectors most in difficulty in February
The 140 fewer new entries compared to January have a very specific reason: the less encouraging prospects linked to the rise in energy costs and the difficulties in procuring raw materials.
Manufacturing is among the sectors on which uncertainty weighs the most, with a drop of -29,5% on a monthly basis, while maintaining a positive trend compared to a year ago (+27,4%). The economic situation for construction was also negative (-20,7% on a monthly basis +16,7% on an annual basis. Even more accentuated was the decline in contracts programmed by services (-32,5% on a monthly basis but +33,8% on an annual basis) and in particular from trade (-43,7% on January but +37,6% compared to last year) "which is reflected in the greater caution in household consumption due to price increases, starting with energy prices", observes Unioncamere.
The sectors that offer more possibilities
According to the forecasts contained in the Excelsior Bulletin, a total of 110 contracts will be activated in industry, of which 36 in construction. For the manufacturing sector, which plans a total of 74 entries, especially mechatronics companies with 20 entries and metallurgical and metal products companies that expect 17 entries are looking for personnel. The forecasts of the consumer goods industries are more contained: the fashion system and the other manufacturing industries with respectively 6 and 5 entries.
The tertiary sector will take the lion's share in February, a sector in which 207 contracts will be activated. In particular, tourism stands out, which compared to February 2021 increases revenue by 32 thousand units. Followed by personal services with 38 entries, trade (35) and transport, logistics and warehousing services (25).
From a contractual point of view, 167 hires, 52,7% of the total will be on fixed-term contracts, 72 (22,6%) on permanent contracts, 31 (10% on temporary contracts, 13 (4,25%) on apprenticeships.
The mismatch
“The difficulty in obtaining funds reported by companies continues to grow, affecting over 40% of planned revenues, up by a further percentage point compared to January. The lack of candidates is the main cause of the mismatch (22,9%), followed by inadequate preparation (13,9%) and other reasons (3,5%)”, underlines Unioncamere. The greatest difficulties in finding personnel are found above all in the metallurgical and metal products industries (54,6%), followed by construction (51,7%) and mechatronics (49,4%); for the tertiary sector, IT and telecommunications and personal services stand out with a share of difficulty in finding the profiles sought equal to 43,8% and 43,3% respectively.
Hiring 2022: the hardest professions to find
Goods and services production process management technicians (68,4%), health technicians (59,6%), engineering technicians (59,1%) specialists in mathematical, IT, chemical, physical and natural sciences ( 55,9%). These are the four figures, among those, sought after and most difficult to find. Lastly, among the blue-collar professions, companies report the greatest difficulties for specialized workers involved in finishing construction (65,1%) and for foundrymen, welders, tinsmiths, coppersmiths, assemblers and metal carpentry (64,1%). PR
