In November, Italian companies pulled the handbrake with regard to the job application. According to the monthly bulletin of the Excelsior information system, produced by Unioncamere and Anpal, they are well 5 thousand fewer contracts scheduled compared to November of last year. Even extending the horizon of the forecast to the quarter November 2019-January 2020, the planned revenues of companies are down compared to the same period of the previous year (-4.760).
This month good opportunities will be offered only to the most qualified profiles, starting with the graduates, to which 5 more contracts are allocated on an annual basis.
The growing influence weighs on business decisions international uncertainty, characterized by a drop in investments and the deceleration of industrial production following the persistence of negative factors such as tariff conflicts, Brexit, the contraction of the German manufacturing industry and the change of pace in the growth of the main Asian economies.
As for individual sectors, mechanical and electronic industries expect to activate 2.300 fewer contracts by November than in the same period last year, while the food industries, affected by the entry into force of US tariffs, will activate 1.600 fewer contracts.
The demand for labor is also down metallurgical industries, of the products in metal and the industries chemical-pharmaceuticaland plastic bags e rubber the demand for workers contracted (respectively -1.500 and -1.320 job positions).
The signal against the trend of the sector is interesting construction, which marks an increase of more than 2.700 units.
Substantial stability expected in services, with a slight decrease in trade (-0,3% on the previous year) and a significant decrease in ICT services (-10,4% again compared to November 2018). On the other hand, significant growth is expected in advanced business support services, such as professional, scientific and technical services, research and development, management consultancy (+23,5%).
Despite this picture with more shadows than lights, the difficulty of finding it remains high (31% of the profiles sought), also because the growing competition pushes companies to adopt increasingly selective criteria in the search for professional profiles. In particular, the difficulty of finding mainly concerns workers with professional qualifications (36,4%) and university graduates (35,9%).
In general, the share of sought-after graduates out of total revenue is growing (going from 12,8% in November 2018 to 14,4% in November 2019) to such an extent that, despite an overall negative balance of 5.000 entries, the with degrees they record a positive balance of 4.979 admissions. In particular, there are about 1.600 more graduates in the various engineering fields sought in the month of November and almost 700 more contracts for "doctors" in teaching and training disciplines.
