WORK IN ABRUZZO: CRESA, “ENORMOUS DIFFICULTY FOR COMPANIES IN FINDING QUALIFIED STAFF” | Current news

PESCARA – Enormous difficulty for companies in finding a workforce with the required characteristics.

This is what Cresa (Study Center of the Development Agency of the Gran Sasso Chamber of Commerce of Italy) has found, which analyzed the data from the most recent annual survey conducted by the Excelsior Information System created by Unioncamere and Anpal.

“For this reason – notes Cresa – falling unemployment rates and an increase in job vacancies do not lead to economic growth but have a high probability of simply resulting in higher inflation. In fact, there has been no recovery and reactivation of the job offer which dropped during the pandemic mainly due to structural change factors which could influence the trends of the coming years”.

Excelsior data show, despite the slowdown of the economy, a growing trend in current employment strategies: expected earnings in Italy exceed 5.5 million, approximately one million more than in 2018 (+4%), in Abruzzo they are close to 117 thousand, 17 thousand more compared to the pre-pandemic year (+3%) with significant sectoral differences.

In Abruzzo the expansion of job demand concerns 50% of those under 29 (+7 thousand), 21% no qualification is required, 29% are looking for figures with at least a five-year diploma, 42% % people with a professional training qualification and 8% at least graduates. (16% nationally).

There are enormous difficulties in finding a job offer, mainly but not only in construction and manufacturing, capable of satisfying needs: 47% of the 116.7 thousand scheduled entries are judged by Abruzzo companies to be “difficult to find” (it was the 26% in 2018) both due to the absence of the required professionalism (30%) and the negative outcomes in the candidate selection processes.

To overcome them, companies adopt different strategies: they look for similar professional figures to train them internally, they broaden the territorial scope of the search, they propose higher salaries (18% was 13% in 2019).

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