The labor market was exceptionally buoyant in the second half, with more recruitment projects converted within a short period of time.
2021, as we know, was an exceptional year on the job market – despite the pandemic and repeated restrictions – both in terms of job creation (nearly 650,000 jobs created in one year, never seen) than the drop in unemployment (490,000 less registered in category A at Pôle emploi, again a record). No less than 44 million hires were made, with a strong acceleration in the second half, including 9 million contracts of more than one month. On average, over the year, some 12,500 open-ended contracts were concluded in this way… every day.
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A new indicator, published this Thursday by Pôle emploi, confirms the dynamism observed last year on the labor market. Nearly nine out of ten job offers submitted to Pôle emploi (85.9% exactly) were filled in 2021, i.e. a rate more or less similar to 2018. To give another order of magnitude, some 781,000 job offers were satisfied in the third quarter of 2021, compared to 767,000 in the same…