(Finance) – There are 359 thousand workers sought by companies for the month of March, 41 thousand more (+ 13.0%) than in February and 67 thousand more (22.9%) than a year ago. It therefore holds the job applicationalbeit in a context of growing uncertainty regarding the consequences of war in Ukraine and the worrying growth of costs energetic and raw materials, factors that are putting the economic recovery at great risk. As the Excelsior Information System Bulletinrealized by Unioncamere And Anpal, in the forecasts of companies the difficulty of finding is still growing. In fact, it stands at 41.1% of programmed revenues, up by almost 9 percentage points compared to March 2021 when 32.2% of the profiles sought were difficult to find.
The industry has planned over 112,000 entries for the month of March, up 2.2% on both last month and the previous year. Still holds the manufacturing with 75 thousand admissions (+ 2.3% on the month and + 5.9% on the year). Leading the industries of the mechatronics who are looking for 20 thousand workers (-1.8% over the month and + 12% over the year), followed by industries metallurgical and metal products (18 thousand, + 5.0% on the month and + 8.4% on the year) and the food, beverage and tobacco industries (9 thousand, + 5.5% on the month and -6.4% on the ‘year). The demand for work from the construction sector also remains high with 37 thousand scheduled hires (+ 1.9% over the month and -4.6% over the year).
On the other hand, there are over 246 thousand employment contracts offered by the sector of services in the current month (+ 18.8% on last month and + 35.5% on the year). Leading the way for the job opportunities offered are accommodation, restaurant and tourist services with almost 64,000 planned entries, trade (44,000 entries) and services to people (about 40,000). THE fixed-term contracts the prevailing contractual form proposed is confirmed with 184 thousand profiles sought, equal to 51.3% of the total. This is followed by permanent contracts (78 thousand), administration contracts (41 thousand), other non-employee contracts (24 thousand), apprenticeship contracts (16 thousand), other employee contracts (10 thousand) and collaboration contracts (6 thousand) ).
The share of hiring for which companies declare difficulties in finding (8.8 percentage points more than last year), which rises to 58.4% for skilled workers, to 56.1% for executives, to 48.0% for technical professions and 44.1% for intellectual and scientific professions. The reason mainly indicated by the companies is the lack of candidates which in March 2022 was expressed for 24.0% of the profiles sought compared to the 16.6% found in March of last year (7.4 percentage points more). . Then follow the inadequate preparation of the candidates (14.3% of the profiles sought) and other reasons (2.8%).
The figures more hard Finding they are technicians for the management of production processes of goods and services (67.2%), craftsmen and skilled workers in building finishing (67.1%), founders, welders, tinsmiths, boiler makers, metal carpentry fitters (65.8%) ), IT, telematic and telecommunication technicians (61.1%), Artisan mechanics, fitters, repairers and maintenance workers of fixed and mobile machines (61.0%). Companies in the regions of Italy encounter the greatest difficulties in finding North East (46.9% of the figures sought are difficult to find), followed by those of the North West (41.2%), South and Islands (38.6%) and Center (36.6%).