PESCARA. By the end of the year, there will be around 900 hires that companies expect to make in Abruzzo, with a rebound of 3.95% compared to current indices. And most of the demand comes from small companies (max 50 employees) that make up the multifaceted and fragmented regional industrial fabric. In second place are medium-sized enterprises and only after large industries (over 200 employees), which can be identified as multinationals, and which also hold the largest shares of production and exports.
The round table with trade unions and Confindustria
The data emerge from research promoted by Piccola Confindustria Abruzzo and carried out by Adecco Group (employment agency) on 251 settlements in each sector. The results were illustrated during the “Future & Work” round table organized by Confindustria Abruzzo Medio Adriatico and which saw the participation of employers’ bodies (represented by Umberto Sgambativice president of Confindustria, Giuseppe Ranallipresident of Piccola Industria Confindustria Abruzzo), trade unions (Michele Lombardogeneral secretary of Uil Abruzzo, Carmine Ranierisecretary of CGIL Abruzzo-Molise, Fabio Well-Intentionedrepresentative of Cisl Abruzzo-Molise), Region (with the councilor for Labor Tiziana Magnacca and the director of the Department, Renata During) and manager Adecco (Luca DiGiamatteo – branch manager, Dario NiceDevelopment Director, Angelina ColettaHead of operations Abruzzo-Molise).
A research that becomes a sort of useful guide not only for those involved in training, but also for all those who need to specialize, embrace a profession, choose a faculty with the prospect of meeting market needs and therefore finding employment more easily in Abruzzo.
For example, do you know which profile is currently most in demand by the 251 companies surveyed? If you want to find a job in the short term, the research shows that the sector to focus on is sales and commerce, followed by logistics, transport and warehousing; specialized personnel in the metalworking, electrical and electronics industries are in demand, in addition to the “evergreen” engineers. If, on the other hand, you are at the beginning of your training career, the Adecco guide suggests looking ahead also to software and the web, plant engineering in general and, in ninth place, profiles linked to food, wood, leather and textile processing. In decline, always looking to the future, are requests for call centers, help desks, Human Resources, but with a note that provides an explanation: these are profiles that companies will, yes, need, but services that they can always outsource with collaboration contracts and not hiring contracts. Going down in particular to the different production branches, the companies that intend to hire the most (+7.76%) belong to the Services sector (IT and other information services), followed by the Metalworking (+3.21%) and Food (+3.03%), with Manufacturing last (+2.02%).
Some curiosities: Agriculture continues to have a marginal role that tends to remain more or less in balance in terms of hiring and firing; so-so also Construction (after the boom) and the food and housing sector. And what are the most sought-after skills? “The most complex to find in the profiles to be hired were determination, commitment and problem solving”, he replies Angelina Coletta of Adecco, underlining how Abruzzo companies need “profiles to compete in terms of results orientation rather than technical skills”.
«Something is moving positively in Abruzzo», he concludes Giammaria De Paolisvice president of Small Industry Confindustria Abruzzo, «in line with the times and characteristics of a now global job market; in fact, the first profile that emerges as the most sought after, sales and commercial workers, is the same one indicated by the global social network LinkedIn as the one on the rise in 2025».
From the comparison with institutions, businesses and unions, shared paths should be identified on which to invest to train and support targeted professions and skills. The Councilor and Regional Manager have taken notes in view of the training programs. A path has been marked in the meantime: to compose an Observatory of the world of work, “provided that it is fast and efficient”, asked Cgil, Cisl and Uil. Because the key to understanding is not the change in the world of work, but the speed with which this occurs.
