Recruitment: seven out of ten professions in high tension, according to a study

They refer to seven professions out of ten. Tensions in the labor market are at their highest point in ten years, according to a study by Dares and Pôle emploi published on Thursday. These hiring difficulties are increasing in practically all trades and “are especially strong in construction, industry, IT and telecommunications, as well as among nurses,” according to this note.

These tensions were measured in 2021 by an indicator that takes into account the expected hiring difficulties, the number of job openings, the ease of job seekers to find work and other indicators on the causes of the tensions. Three-quarters of “the top 30 shortfall occupations” are thus industrial and construction occupations, primarily skilled or technical workers.

Almost all the industrial professions involved

Almost all trades are involved in the industry: “technicians, supervisors and draughtsmen, fitters, pipe and boiler makers, bodybuilders, vehicle mechanics and qualified mechanical maintenance operators.” Engineers and technical executives are also stressed, as are many unskilled worker trades (mechanics, electricity-electronics in particular).

In industry, the tensions are “more linked to the lack of available labor, while in construction the intensity of hiring matters more.” For worker trades, working conditions “also tend to be restrictive.”

In information technology and telecommunications, several factors intervene: “high intensity of hiring, lack of training and lack of available manpower”. In health, along with the lack of labor, there is “a strong link between training and employment” and “working conditions there tend to be more restrictive.”

Tensions vary by territory

Nearly all of these top 30 jobs also require specific training, according to the study. For two-thirds of the professions in the top 30, the geographical distribution of supply differs from that of labor demand.

But tensions can vary from one territory to another. “For unskilled workers in the agri-food industries, a job that is generally under pressure, recruitment difficulties bypass certain departments in northern and eastern France,” the study notes.

Among the 30 professions that employ the most employees, “half are very, even very tense,” such as caregivers, home helpers, or truck drivers.