The shortage of supply in the sectors in tension, starting with the hotel and catering industry, should increase, according to a study.
French companies are expected to sign more than 4.5 million employment contracts in the next twelve months. This forecast from the Adecco group, which marks a record, comes as the government is more than ever engaged in a race for full employment. These recruitments will concern 43% of the cases of open-ended contracts and 30% of the cases of fixed-term contracts. The rest is shared between interim contracts for about 20%, as well as internships and apprenticeship contracts, which increase and represent 7% of hiring forecasts.
However, a shadow continues to darken the employment picture, warns Adecco, and not the least: the labor shortage. This is explained by the concentration of hiring forecasts on a limited number of sectors of activity. Nearly 1 hiring forecast out of 4, or 1.8 million in total, concerns around twenty trades out of the 532 in the operational directory of trades and jobs from Pôle Emploi. And among these 20 professions, 17 are recognized as being in high tension.
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The podium of the most sought-after professions for future hires is formed by kitchen staff (163,682), order pickers (190,757) and restaurant waiters (193,223), which are all three in the top 10 professions the most stressed. The catering sector alone represents half a million recruitment forecasts in the next 12 months, the Adecco study tells us. “ Catering needs are exploding “Summarizes Alexandre Viros, president of Adecco in France, who takes this observation as the main lesson of the study.
Geographical sharing of hiring forecasts is also offered by Adecco experts. Unsurprisingly, the Île-de-France region is showing remarkable dynamism, with more than 20% of the forecasts concerning it, followed by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (13.2%) and the South region (9. 3%). “ All job pools are dynamic at the national level “Explains Alexandre Viros, who believes that the shortage will spare no corner of France.