The signals coming from the labor market since August are of clear confidence. This month, companies are looking for 257 thousand workers, or 9 thousand more (+ 3.7%) than in 2019, considered as a reference of normality. To say it is the Bulletin of the Excelsior Information System, created by Unioncamere and Anpal. Looking forward to October, companies are hiring 1.2 million hires. The data for the quarter therefore gives an even clearer signal and shows growth of 13.8% compared to the same period of 2019. These data are confirmation of a dynamic economic context, as also emerged from the latest Istat data on GDP and sales.
The industry
In August, the industry will continue to work at a sustained pace, to the point of predicting 72 thousand admissions (+ 3.2%). In the August-October quarter there will be 342 thousand, up 10.9% on 2019. These data confirm the rapid recovery of manufacturing and construction that continues in August with a growth rate of planned revenues equal to + 2.1% and + 6.2% if compared with the same period of 2019. In the case of buildings, we are obviously witnessing the wave of renovations encouraged by bonuses and super bonuses 110%. It is precisely in the construction sector that we find the most difficult professional figures, that is the artisans and specialized workers involved in the finishing of buildings who are unavailable in 60.6% of cases.
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Services
In services, 184 thousand employment contracts will be made in August (+ 4.0%) which will be 878 thousand for the entire quarter, 15% more. The sectors where it will be hired the most are tourism services which continue the recovery that began in July and are planning 63,000 admissions for August, or 36.1% more than in August 2019.
The mismatch
There is no sign of diminishing the mismatch theme: the difficulty in finding the figures sought by companies is still 32.7%. The most difficult professional figures to find are those of the “Information Systems” area: the difficulty in fact concerns 59.6% of candidates. Then there are the professionals of the areas “Installation and maintenance” (48.3%) and “Design and development” (46.2%). Computer, telematic and telecommunications technicians (58.7%), artisans and workers specialized in the installation and maintenance of electrical and electronic equipment (58.5%), engineering technicians (53.0%) are also difficult to find. .
The contracts
The positive balance compared to pre-covid is mainly due to fixed-term contracts that benefit more than others from the resumption of activities: in August there are about 10 thousand more units, or 7.3% more than in August 2019). On the other hand, permanent contracts and administration contracts are still below the 2019 levels.