ROMA (ITALPRESS) – For the month of January, companies expect to enter into approximately 527,000 employment contracts, a figure of more than 1.4 million considering the entire first quarter of the year (January-March). The overall demand for work is substantially unchanged compared to January 2025 (-0.6%), while highlighting different dynamics between the various economic sectors. The prospects appear encouraging in the primary sector, where an increase of 6.5% is recorded, while the service sector maintains substantial stability (+0.1%).
On the contrary, the forecasts of the industry, characterized by greater caution (-3.5%), with particular reference to the manufacturing (-4.6%) and, in a more limited form, to the constructions (-1.3%). It decreases by more than 3 percentage points the difficulty of finding (45.8% compared to 49.1% of January 2025).
This scenario is the Bulletin of the Excelsior Information System, created by Unioncamere and Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, thanks to the National Youth, Women and Work Programme co-financed by the European Union.
A total of 155 thousand revenue is planned in the industrial sector: 104 thousand in manufacturing and public utilities and 51 thousand in construction. Within the manufacturing sector, the major possibilities of use are from the mechanical and electronic sector (over 27 thousand contracts), from metallurgy and from the production of metal articles (21 thousand) and from the food and beverage industry (15 thousand).
The tertiary programme instead about 337 thousand revenue and the sectors that guide the request of staff confirm tourism (70 thousand planned contracts), services to people (69 thousand) and commerce (67 thousand). In the primary sector, enterprises plan about 35 thousand income, mainly concentrated in the tree crop sector (13 thousand), field crops (10 thousand) and agricultural services (4 thousand).
The most widespread contractual mode is the fixed-term contract, offered for 252 thousand positions, equal to 47.8% of the total. Indefinite contracts follow, with 111 thousand units (21.0%) and administration contracts reaching 63 thousand positions (11.9%).
In January there was an imbalance between demand and job offer involving 241 thousand of the 527 thousand expected income (45.8%). The main causes are the absence of applications (28.6%), insufficient training of candidates (13.6%) and other motivations (3.6%). The most critical sectors are constructions (with more than 60% of the hard-to-cover positions), furniture wood (59.8%) and metallurgy (55.6%).
According to the Excelsior Information System Professional Board, the most difficult profiles to find are, among intellectual and scientific figures, analysts and specialists in designing applications (62.7%) and engineers (51.8%); technical profiles, health technicians (64.4%), manufacturing process management technicians (63.7%) and engineering technicians (60.7%); among the professions qualified in the commercial and service sectors, the operators of aesthetics (56.6%) and the social-sanitary services (55.0%); between skilled workers, building finishing machines (75.0%), mechanics and maintenance workers (69.6%) and tool manufacturers (66.9%).
Among the most sought-after professions in the primary sector are critical findings on the market of technicians in relation to the markets (78.1%), non-skilled personnel dedicated to forests, animal care, fishing and hunting (68.2%), breeders and skilled workers of the livestock (59.8%) and exhibitors and catering workers (58.2%).
In January, companies provide for foreign personnel in 22.2% of the contracts offered, about 117 thousand positions. The sectors that are most aimed at immigrant workers are the primary (43.3% of the expected income), textile-clothing-footwear (34.8%) and construction (30.7%). P
as regards young people under 30, enterprises are looking for almost 143 thousand figures, equal to 27.1% of total revenue. The best opportunities for this age group are focused on financial and insurance services (40.5% of income for young people), IT and telecommunications services (39.8%), trade (37.5%). At the territorial level, the North-West and the South Islands plan the largest number of revenue (respectively over 158 thousand and over 141 thousand), followed by the North-East (almost 121 thousand) and the Center (about 106 thousand). The regional classification sees in the first place Lombardy with 110 thousand positions, followed by Lazio (53 thousand), Veneto (49 thousand), Emilia-Romagna (48 thousand) and Campania (about 42 thousand).
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