The Maremma and Tyrrhenian Chamber of Commerce has published the new report on the intersection of labor supply and demand by educational qualification reported to the year 2023.
In 2022, the share of hard-to-find candidates for Grosseto businesses came in at 32.8 percent. Professionals over 30 seem to be harder to find.
In the period 2018-2022, the share of hard-to-find under-30 graduates for Maremma firms was very high and higher than the general figure referring to under-30s. It can be hypothesized that the mismatch finds its explanation in the fact that the academic path of resident graduates is not in line with what local businesses are looking for, or that the graduate lacks the specific skills (transversal and/or technical) required by businesses, despite having a degree compatible with the expressed demand.
As for the demand expressed by businesses, the need tends to be concentrated in the Economics and Chemical-Pharmaceutical degree classes. In 2018, 2021 and 2022 Teaching and Education is the third most in-demand degree address, replaced by Linguistics, Translators and Interpreters in 2019 and Literature, Philosophy, History and Art in 2020. Demand for Engineers and Health and Paramedic graduates is always present although with varying intensity depending on the year under review and the specific professionals in demand.
As far as supply is concerned, it is immediately evident how the latter tends to focus on Economics, in line with what is expressed for businesses. In second place we find the Medical/Dental/Health/Paramedic class of degrees, titles highly valued by both public and private enterprises. In third place, in terms of the number of graduates, is the Political-social field, which is not associated with a particularly significant demand from private enterprises.
For the future, the most critical situations in terms of mismatch could affect the degree groups of Economics, Electrical and Information Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Literary, Philosophical, Historical and Artistic.
In the context of ITS, among the technological areas with the highest value of demand and difficulty of finding in 2022 for Grosseto businesses are New Technologies for Made in Italy address Mechanics and Home System. Businesses also show some interest in New Technologies for Made in Italy – Marketing and Sustainability, Information and Communication Technologies and Innovative Technologies for Cultural Goods and Activities. With the exception of the latter address, the untraceable are the majority.
The report can be found at the following link
