A degree or diploma is worth half of the employment contracts that companies have already stipulated or intend to stipulate by 2017. But for one out of three graduates and one out of five high school graduates le difficulties in finding the right candidate they will not fail.
These are some of the indications coming from System informative Excelsior1, that Unioncamere realizes in collaboration with Anpal, relating to the employment programs of companies in industry and services for the current year. The study was discussed this morning in Verona, in the context of Job&Orienta, the national exhibition and conference dedicated to guidance, school, training, work.
"The Chambers of Commerce are on the move to make their contribution to bridging the gap between the training system and the productive reality”, stressed the president of Unioncamere, Ivan Lo Bello. “- branches that are being set up in the area in all Chambers of Commerceio and that they will operate for enhance the alternation between school and work, the orientation and development of telematic services to support the placement processes carried out by the Universities, are our response to a need for a better connection between training and the world of work, to increase the employability of young people".
467 thousand graduates and 1 million and 415thousand business graduates in 2017
This year, Italian companies expect to employ a total of 467 graduates and 1.415 high school graduates in the company in 2017. The degree it is therefore required for about 1 in 10 jobs while ai diplomats more than 1/3 of the opportunities are targeted. Ultimately, considering the total number of employment contracts activated in 2017, almost 1 out of 2 contracts is for personnel with a medium-high level of education.
Economics and engineering are the most requested degrees
The economics major is the degree course most in demand by businesses: 137 contracts offered, equal to 30% of the total expected income of graduates. Close behind the economists are the various engineering courses, which reach a total request of 110 entries, divided into 45 PhDs in electronic and information engineering, 30 in industrial engineering, 24 in management engineering and over 10 in civil engineering and environmental. Among the other most requested courses are teaching and training (35) and health and paramedical (33). An important share of the job demand of companies is then reserved for graduates from other scientific fields, such as chemist-pharmaceutical (21 placements expected) and scientific-mathematical-physics (20).
151 thousand graduates "untraceable"
The search for graduates to join the company is not without difficulties. In fact, companies struggle to find 1 out of 3 graduates, that is 151mila overall figures. The "supply gap" is the main reason for the difficulty of finding these profiles: specialized and technically sought-after professions are in great demand and companies are not able to cover their needs with what is available on the market. This motivation affects 56% of hard-to-find graduates. The second reason, indicated in 38 cases out of 100, pertains to the "skills gap", i.e. linked to inadequate training or lack of the necessary experience.
Language graduates are the most difficult to find: 8 figures out of the 15 envisaged for entry involve problems in finding them (57%). Almost the same difficulty in finding (55%) regards graduates from the electronic and information engineering specialization. The numbers involved, in this case, are more relevant, because we are talking about 25 problematic searches (out of a total of 45).
Even industrial engineering graduates are among the most "hard to find", so much so that companies struggle to find almost half of those expected incoming income. Then follow graduates in the scientific-mathematical-physical field (40% of which are difficult to find), and those in management engineering and other minor engineering fields (a little more than a third "untraceable").
Administrative and mechanical the most requested diplomas
The most sought-after diploma by Italian companies is the administrative, finance and marketing specialization. The contracts activated for this profile in 2017 should be 252 thousand, i.e. 18% of the total request for graduates. Job opportunities are also significant for the mechanical, mechatronic and energy and electronic-electrotechnical fields: 128 contracts for the former and 78 for the latter. Good employment opportunities are also opening up for those who have obtained a high school diploma with a focus on tourism-food and wine-hospitality, for whom companies have scheduled 126 placements. Equally significant is the demand for graduates in transport and logistics (44) and IT and telecommunications (40).
For 40% of the graduates sought (almost 550.000 out of a total of 1.415.000) companies do not report a specific address, as, in all likelihood, they are looking for people with a good level of general culture to whom they can entrust management tasks sales and customer relations or other "non-technical" activities.
IT and electronic-electrotechnical addresses are the most difficult to find
One out of 5 graduates, overall 290 thousand contracts to be signed, it won't be easy to find, companies say. The most frequent problem is linked to skills deemed inadequate (affecting 48% of the planned placements). The second reason in order of importance concerns the "supply gap", which explains 42% of the difficulties.
The hardest to find are IT and telecommunications graduates (45% of searches present this problem). This is followed by graduates in electronics-electrical engineering, among whom 37% will not be easy to find. In third place in the ranking, graduates with a mechanical-mechatronics-energy specialization (with problems of finding them in 35% of cases).
