Recruitments, 443,000 scheduled for April: tourism is driving WWN

The labor market restarts in Italy and reaches levels never recorded before. Only a month ago, Istat highlighted 23.3 million employed people for the month of January with an employment rate of 60.8% (+0.1 points). Employment has grown overall by 0.2%, equal to 35,000 more units, especially for women, permanent employees and for those over 35 years of age.
They grow both in the public and in the private sector. current news ofapproval of the decree that unlocks 3,000 jobs in the PA for the strengthening of the administrations that implement the Pnrr and the administrative capacity of local authorities, in addition to stabilizations for those who have completed at least 36 months of service in the last 8 years. Approximately two thirds of the total (1,968) will be in the defense and captaincy sector, while 1,057 employees, officials and managers will be hired in the ministries, including the presidency of the council.

In companies, according to the bulletin of the Excelsior information system, created by Unioncamere and Anpalsono 443,000 planned revenues from businesses in April and over 1.5 million for the April-June quarterwith an increase in the demand for labor of approximately 76 thousand units compared to April 2022 (+20.6 per cent) and of 186 thousand units over the corresponding quarter (+13.5 per cent). The tourist services sector leads the way in terms of number of opportunities with 108,000 workers rSearched for in the month in conjunction with the Easter holidays and over 393,000 in the April-June quarter.
The industry as a whole programs 105,000 admissions in the month and around 400 thousand in the quarter, with a growth of 2.6 percent and 13.1 percent respectively compared to a year ago.
The manufacturing sector is looking for (for the month of April) 70,000 workers which rise to 280 thousand in the quarter. To offer the greatest job opportunities are the imechatronics industries (15 thousand contracts to be activated in the month and around 51 thousand in the quarter), followed by those of metallurgy (13 thousand in the month and 46 thousand in the quarter), della fashion (10 thousand in the month and 27 thousand in the quarter) and of chemistry-pharmaceuticala (9 thousand in the month and 31 thousand in the quarter). The sector of buildingsfinally, it plans 35,000 entries for the month, rising to 120,000 in the quarter. Services are looking of 338,000 workers in the month and around 1.2 million by June, which correspond respectively to increases of 27.5 per cent and 13.6 per cent.. There are also many job opportunities offered by sservices to people with 75k revenue scheduled for the month and 254k for the quarter. Followed by i transport, logistics and warehousing services (about 40 thousand contracts in the month and 115 thousand in the quarter) and the trade (45 thousand in the month and 175 thousand in the quarter).

But often thereThe demand for workforce does not meet the supply and there are many sectors that are suffering. According to Unioncamere the difficulty in finding personnel, estimated at a timescale of between 2 and 12 months, cost Italy up to 38 billion euros in 2022, equal to 3.1% of what was generated overall by the industry and services chains and concerned 40% of recruitments. A percentage that, according to their estimates, will tend to increase given the growing demand driven by Pnrr investments, between the digital and green transition and the demographic trend, with an increase in pension flows and a reduction in the number of people of working age. The demographic aspect is in fact critical if we consider that between 2023 and 2027 the entire Italian labor market (private and public) will need around 3.8 million workers, 72% of whom (2.7 million) will have to replace workers leaving the labor market. The remaining 28% of the labor market demand will instead be determined by the economic expansion which will translate into a growth in the employment stock of over one million workers in the most accredited forecast scenario at present.