The Excelsior Observatory of Unioncamere has announced the analysis of employment needs and the projections on the driving sectors for 2012.
From the data, anticipated today in the Sole24Ore, it is evident that the year that has just begun is as difficult as and perhaps more than the one we have left behind. Moreover, the Confindustria study center had already estimated a deadweight loss of over 200,000 jobs for 2012, with unemployment that for young people will come close to 30%.
In such a context, it is evident that even more attention needs to be paid to the sectors that instead show greater resistance and to the more performing sectors which, fortunately, are not lacking.
Starting from the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, which is confirmed as a happy island in terms of quality employment (not only for chemists of course, but also for engineers, biologists and experts). The 60% of the jobs created in recent months in the over 6,000 companies in the sector is stable, of which 42% expects to resort to new hires in the next year. Particularly good is the trend of the beauty and cosmetics sector, which closed 2011 with a growing turnover and an increase in employment levels of around 6%.
For the rest, the primary industrial sector does not seem to offer many further outlets.
However, many spaces will open up in the tertiary sector, especially in the food and tourism sectors, which recorded the highest number of new jobs in absolute terms in 2011 (166,000). Despite the consumer crisis, retail is also holding up well. There are 1,152 new store openings planned in 2012, which will generate over 3,000 new hires, especially among young people.
Clerks, cooks and waiters should therefore have an easy life, provided however that they live up to the characteristics that are increasingly required for this kind of job once considered low-skilled: knowledge of languages (Russian and Chinese in particular, for aspiring workers in high-end stores) or new technologies for those who aspire to work in electronics stores. For the food sector, the demand for qualified personnel in the use of specific machinery such as those used in the production of wine or cheese will grow.
The health and personal care sector is also constantly growing, and for 2012 it is confirmed as an important employment area.
In the end,
