The last quarter of 2019 looks set to end in the best possible way for the world of work. In October 2019, 21 more contracts are scheduled than in the same month of the previous year. There are 100 more contracts (+10,6%) in the last quarter of 2019 compared to that of 2018. This was revealed by the monthly bulletin of the Excelsior information system, created by Unioncamere and Anpal, which underlines how "although the international market is characterized by growing uncertainties, the demand for labor of Italian companies continues to grow on a trend basis".
In detail, in October there are 391 scheduled contracts which become 1 million in the October-December quarter.
The sectors in which the greatest job opportunities will be created will be some of the distinctive Made in Italy supply chains, led by mechatronics (49.960 activations in the October-December quarter with a growth trend of 12,5%), followed by metallurgy and the manufacture of metal products (40.350 contracts and a growth of 14,8%).
For services, tourism continues to drive the demand for labor (170.560 contracts in the October-December quarter with a growth trend of 19,8%), followed by the IT and telecommunications services sector with 30.170 contracts and a growth rate of 19,1%.
The difficulty in finding professional profiles reported by companies remains high (which concerns 31,4% of the profiles sought), especially for IT and telecommunications, metallurgy and mechatronics companies.
“Businesses – explains the report – encounter greater difficulties in finding graduates in electronic and information engineering (67,9%) and in industrial engineering (54,0%); it is also difficult to find graduates in chemistry and pharmacy (58,6%) as well as graduates in science, mathematics and physics. In addition to graduates in STEM disciplines, there is also a lack of linguistics, translators and interpreters (53,9% are difficult to find)".
