Economy - published on 01 February 2024
Source: press office Confartigianato Imprese Belluno
We are told by entrepreneurs and data from our survey: 26% of Belluno companies admitted having doubts about the future sustainability of the cost of new resources – The statement by Claudia Scarzanella President of Confartigianato Imprese Belluno, who adds – More than 42% of companies in the province consider salary increases as the most effective method of attracting and/or retaining qualified personnel, which exacerbates the situation of economic uncertainty for micro and small businesses. More than half of all personnel searches are difficult to carry out.
Difficult to find them – states Scarzanella – yet our enterprises need them like water in the desert. And the problem of staff recruitment shows no sign of improving: 54.1% of Belluno companies report difficulties in finding staff with the required technical skills, and 27.5% instead have problems finding staff with soft skills.
The real paradox – she points out – is that while more than one in two entries is difficult to find, in the province of Belluno more than 4 thousand young people up to 35 years of age are inactive. In Italy they are over 1.5 million, a figure that brings us to occupy, in negative, the first position in the EU.
The problem of recruitment, is linked to the problem – equally felt by entrepreneurs – of how to attract and retain young people in the company. In this respect, recent data from Istat’s Permanent Business Census 2023 indicate what tools micro and small businesses are leveraging. In Belluno: 42.2% recognize wage increases (superminimums), 25% offer increasing degrees of autonomy at work, and 19.2% expand benefit packages (corporate welfare etc.).
Good news comes from the government – Scarzanella continues – Last September 18, the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, signed the Ddl establishing the technological-professional training chain, which is now being examined by the Senate Culture Commission. The Ddl has the ambitious and praiseworthy goal of rethinking technical and vocational education by building a training chain capable of bringing all the pieces that make it up into dialogue and bringing our country closer to the best European experiences. We hope that this challenge can be taken up, that schools decide to start the experimentation by entirely rethinking the didactics and therefore not only compressing the contents today expressed in the five-year courses by dialoguing with the business world for the benefit of the skills and the outgoing profiles of young people, favoring the dual training paths designed with companies.
