NEW CONTRACTS INCREASING IN PIACENZA: 2,040 IN APRIL AND 7,100 IN A QUARTER – After the good performance in the month of March, the number of new contracts that will activate the Piacenza companies will continue to grow also in the current month of April and in the April-June quarter. In fact, there are 2,040 new contracts that will be activated in the province of Piacenza in the current month, and the data – which emerges from the analyzes of the Research Office of the Emilia Chamber of Commerce on data from the Excelsior System – appears to be growing by 4.6% compared to April 2023. Positive forecasts, as mentioned, also for the April-June 2024 quarter, with a result that should be 0.3% higher than last year, with a number of new contracts at 7,100 units. The companies that will activate new contracts represent 17% of the total, and will look in particular to young people, who represent 28% of the recipients of the new contracts.
While the difficulties in finding professional figures remain high sought by companies (in 55% of cases), the contracts proposed are 74% represented by employee work (25% permanent, 40% temporary and 9% other types, all growing) and 26% by forms ‘flexible’ (22% administration/temporary workers and 4% collaboration/VAT numbers/others). The top 5 business sectors number of new contracts scheduled in the current month of April are logistics, transport and warehousing services with 480 units (-29.4%), trade with 280 units (+86.7%), accommodation and catering services and tourist services, with 220 units (+22.2% compared to the same period in 2023), mechanical industries and electronics with 170 units and construction, with 170 units (+41.7%).
The three most requested professions in absolute terms relate to workers in catering activities (210 units, 60.9% of cases difficult to find), i motor vehicle drivers with 160 units (in 70.5% of cases difficult to find) and the sales people (150 units, 32.2% difficult to find) The most requested qualifications for April concern the qualification of professional training or professional diploma, with 720 new contracts (35.2% of the total); followed by secondary level education diplomas, with 620 units (30.4%), while for those leaving compulsory school there are 450 new contracts available and for university level there are 250 units.
Experience in the profession is required in 60.5% of cases for higher qualifications, in 22.3% for intermediate qualifications and in 12.7% for those who have a compulsory school qualification. As far as professional figures are concerned, the Chamber of Commerce data attest that in the managerial sector and with high technical specialisation, the search for market relations technicians is very difficult in 87.2% of cases, standing at 85.7 % for health technicians, 81.8%% for technicians managing the production processes of goods and services and 64.7% in the search for IT, telematics and telecommunications technicians.
Among employees and in commercial and service professions, it is more difficult to find qualified professionals in health and social services (in 78.3% of cases), operators and workers in catering activities (in 60.9% of cases). of cases), sales workers (in 32.2% of cases) and secretarial and general affairs workers (30.8% of cases). Finally, as regards specialized workers, the greatest difficulties in finding are encountered in the search for artisan mechanics, assemblers, repairers, maintenance workers for fixed/mobile machines (in 85.9% of cases), workers assigned to automatic and semi-automatic machines for metalworking (in 85.2% of cases), casters, welders, tinsmiths, boilermakers, metal carpentry assemblers (in 78.9% of cases) and blacksmiths, tool builders (in 76.7% of cases) .
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