The assumptions expected in January but there is still a shortage of candidates: compared to a year ago, the difficulty of finding them increases by 5%, reaching 38,6% of the programmed entries. I'm just under 458 thousand scheduled contracts from businesses in January and will rise to around 1,2 million in the first quarter (+112 thousand on January 2021 and +265 thousand compared to the January-March 2021 quarter). The comparison with December 2021 is also positive, with 104 more contracts (+29,4%), above all with fixed-term contracts, for all economic sectors except for the where the growing uncertainties related to the trend of the epidemiological curve in recent weeks weigh. This is what emerges from the Bulletin of the Excelsior information system, produced by Unioncamere and Anpal.
Despite the difficulties associated with energy boosts and many raw materials, the industry is continuing its positive trend already recorded in the course of the year that has just ended and is planning around 150 admissions for the month of January. Above all, construction companies are looking for personnel (46 entries), followed by mechatronics companies with 26 entries and metallurgical and metal products companies which expect 22 entries.
Overall, the tertiary sectors totaled 307 entries: in the lead are business services (142 hires), followed by commerce (62 entries) and personal services (56). There fourth wave tourism still affects where companies have foreseen for the moment a 14,6% drop in the activation of contracts compared to December.
As highlighted by Borsino Excelsior, overall the hiring flow is characterized by a prevalence of fixed-term contracts (181 units, +55 compared to last year), followed by permanent contracts (116 units, +26 compared to last year), temporary contracts (70, +20 compared to last year), collaboration (19 +6 thousand compared to January 2021), in apprenticeships (17 thousand, +3 thousand compared to 2021) and other forms of employment contracts (11 thousand, +6 thousand compared to 2021) and not employed (44 thousand, -4 thousand compared to a year ago ).
However, the growth in demand is accompanied by the difficulty of recruitment of personnel, reported by 22,2% of enterprises, followed by inadequate preparation (13,4%) and other reasons (2,9%). The construction companies (53,3% of the profiles sought) encounter the greatest difficulties in finding them, followed by the wood and furniture industries (53,0%), the metallurgical industries (52,5%) and the IT and telecommunications services (51,9%).
Among professions IT, telematics and telecommunications technicians (68,1%) are more difficult to find, followed by tool makers, workers and wood treatment craftsmen (67,9%), smelters, welders, metal carpentry fitters (62,4, 62,3%), craftsmen and specialized workers involved in finishing constructions (61,9%) and specialists in mathematical, IT, chemical, physical and natural sciences (XNUMX%).
But companies are trying to counter the phenomenon by hiring figures with skills similar to those sought and then training them in the company, a solution adopted in 38,6% of cases. While in 17,2% of cases the companies will face the difficulty by offering a higher salary than the contractual conditions on average proposed for the profile sought.
In January, the demand for immigrant workers: 73 contracts are proposed, equal to 16% of the total planned revenue. Among the tertiary sectors in greatest demand are operational and business support services, personal services, transport and logistics (each with around 11 expected revenues). As far as industry is concerned, the construction and metallurgical industries stand out (respectively with around 8 and 5 planned entries).
