There is a double reality in which vacancies and high unemployment coexist. In the case of Euskadi, there are 5,238 vacancies and unemployment is over 8%. Why are there vacancies that are not filled?
Euskaraz irakurri: Zergatik dituzte gero eta enpresa gehiagok arazoak langileak aurkitzeko?
In the Basque Country, there are companies that are really struggling to find suitable professional profiles for the jobs they have, despite an unemployment rate of more than 8%. The latest data speaks of 5238 vacanciesa 0.5% of unfilled vacancies in the Basque Country in the second quarter of 2022, according to information from the National Statistics Institute (INE).
The number of vacancies in Spain reached a record 145,053 at the end of the second quarter of the year, a number of unfilled vacancies that had not been registered since the INE started counting them.
Why are there vacancies that are not filled? What are those profiles that remain vacant? What will happen in the future? EITB Media has spoken with the head of Lanbide’s technical office, Javier Ramosthe education director of the Chamber of Commerce of Bilbao, santiago lopezand the economist Endika Alabort.
They all agree that there are vacancies, and if we look at the historical series, they have always existed, even in times of crisis. So it is not a widespread problem, but it is important to look to the future, because this situation of imbalance between supply and demand is becoming more common.
Historical graph of the number of vacancies since 2013. Source: INE.
In Spain, according to the report “In which sectors are there no workers?”, produced by Randstad and the Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises, known as CEPYME.
The labor shortage affects all sectors, from agriculture to industry, through construction and the services sector. These are jobs in construction, catering, hairdressing, telemarketing, domestic work, tourism, dependents, highly qualified profiles, highly technical or technological positions, etc. In the Basque Country, 40.6% of employment is highly skilled.
Lin the absence of profiles It is due to a significant imbalance in which several problems converge: lack of training, working conditions (mainly salaries), low employment rates, generational change or aging of the population.
Experts agree that it is a temporary problem that could become structural if measures are not taken.
Lanbide will analyze with nearly 10,000 companies what are the main reasons why they struggle to find the right professional profiles, i.e. what their staff needs to help them with coverage, offer them training and answer that question to anticipate.
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Source: EITB
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