InvestigationRetraining for occupations in shortage or of the future are part of the major challenges to support the recovery of the economy, but they must reconcile individual choices, the needs of the territories and the will of the companies.
“I find the concept of having wood craftsmen right next to the place where you are trained extraordinary, it allows you to network, it gives you lots of projects for the future, and it gives me confidence. I already have a job offer! » A former specialist educator and real estate agent, Hervé Roux, 52, is complimentary when he talks about the center of the Agency for Adult Vocational Training (AFPA) in Puy-en-Velay, where he is completing a six-month course to become building maintenance worker.
To avoid closure, the AFPA center in Puy-en-Velay had to reinvent itself: at the end of 2019, it became a “village” which offers a training offer (in woodworking, building, the person…) to all the public of this territory and which at the same time hosts a factory where craftsmen from the region (carpenters, mechanics, wood turners…) pool their expenses. Activities abound, and emulation animates the large hangars of this 13,500 square meter site located in the industrial zone of Saint-Germain-Laprade, on the outskirts of the Haute-Loire prefecture. The challenge of this cohabitation: to encourage exchange between trained and independent craftsmen to encourage vocations in the wood sector, always in search of carpenters.
The subject has come up often since the crisis linked to the Covid-19 epidemic: the recovery is hampered by the recruitment difficulties of a certain number of sectors. In the top 10 professions with the greatest recruitment difficulties, the annual survey “Pôle emploi labor needs” cites in order: carpenter, roofer, surveyor, pipefitter, veterinarian, doctor, machine adjuster , home help and household help, car bodybuilder, vehicle mechanic and electronics technician. The results for 2021 estimate that 255,000 to 390,000 the number of recruitment projects abandoned for lack of candidates.
This is the case in craftsmanship: “We still have problems finding people to enter the sewing workshops”, recognizes Alexandre Boquel, Director of Development of Excellence in Businesses at the LVMH group. Of the 280 professions that make the reputation of the French leader in luxury, “about thirty are jobs in tension”he explains.
“The economy is changing faster and faster”
In the digital sector, the lack of candidates is costly for all companies: the Observatory of digital, engineering, consulting and event professions (Opiiec), which counts 0.56 candidates per published position , with too little diversified profiles, estimated in 2019 the shortage at 65,000 jobs by 2023.
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