“We decided to start the selections starting from a lower step, from the diploma, through a pilot project called Operation Talents”. Also in Deloitte consulting, the managing director Alessandro Mercuri tells us, the mismatch is a big issue, even if it offers an entry salary, for a recent graduate, of around 25-30 thousand euros gross a year. And it is especially so in this expansionist phase, driven by the environmental and technological transition and by the maneuvers to approach the funds of the NRP.
Project with the University of Naples
The company has thus launched a project with the Federico II University of Naples, to intercept those who leave high school with a very bright curriculum and have economic difficulties to continue their studies. «We offer a fixed-term, part-time employment contract with 2 days of work and 3 days of course attendance and we take care of the costs of the studies. Upon completion of the university course, the contract is transformed from determined to indefinite – explains the manager -. The pilot project started last autumn with 10 working students, 6 girls and 4 boys, enrolled in economics, engineering and IT, but our intention is to increase them to 50 per year because we believe it is necessary to expand the catchment area by orienting young people. towards Stem disciplines ».
The hunger for Stem profiles
The latest data from the Excelsior system, created by Unioncamere and Anpal, say that the hiring contracts scheduled by the companies for the first quarter of this year increase, reaching 1.2 million, as, however, also increases the difficulty of finding that reaches peaks between 60 and 70% for Stem profiles.
In demand in all areas, they are also in demand in consulting, which is experiencing a golden moment. In Deloitte consulting, «in terms of revenues, the growth for this fiscal year is expected to be around 20% and that of employment will go hand in hand – says Mercuri -. The turnover is in line with market trends and is around 20%, taking into account that this is a period in which our people are very attractive to the market, while the pandemic has generated a lot of stress for everyone “. Dragging phenomena such as that of the great resignation.
In the company there will be over 2,500 young consultants and those with experience who will cross the entry threshold in the 12 months of the current fiscal year (which started on 1 June 2021 and ends in May 2022). Of these one thousand have already been hired by last December, the other 1,500 will enter from now until the end of May, equally distributed between people who are in their first job and people with a few years of seniority. “Our plan – explains Mercuri – stems from the desire to become a decisive player in the transformation process that the country is experiencing: we are not limited to the implementation phase of our customers’ projects, both private and public administration, but we accompany in a partnership logic. Today Italy is going through a moment never seen before for the intensity of the digital transformation that involves commercial and internal processes, with the migration to cloud environments and the extensive use of data, machine learning and artificial intelligence “.