2024-04-12 20:22:15
While unemployment remains above the psychological limit of 10%, more than 150,000 workers are missing from the labor market. In sectors such as tourism, catering, industry and construction, significant gaps in jobs are recorded, despite the fact that there was an influx of human resources from third countries acting as an “injection” of employment.
The figures from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on job vacancies are indicative of the prevailing situation. There is a large increase and an all-time high of 82.1% in the number of job vacancies in Q4 2023 compared to Q4 2022 (38,111 and 20,927 respectively).
The number of job vacancies in the 4th quarter of 2023 shows an increase of 82.1% compared to the 4th quarter of 2022 (38,111 and 20,927 respectively), compared to an increase of 42.2% during the corresponding comparison of the year 2022 to 2021 .
Where are the gaps located?
Large gaps in workers are also recorded in the IT sector, especially after the arrival of multinationals that rushed to utilize the specialized local potential. Programmers, data analysts, and also specialties related to software development are hard to find.
The most important difficulties faced by hoteliers concern finding staff. According to data from the Panhellenic Federation of Hoteliers (POX), the shortages amount to 53,000, while if you include the deficit in the related catering industry, then the vacancies amount to 80,000.
Chefs, cooks, receptionists, waitresses, gardeners, are some of the specialties that are in short supply. Things are even more difficult in the construction sector where the backlog of the large technical companies already exceeds 16 billion euros and they are preparing to announce projects worth another 40 billion euros.
The specialties that are missing from the constructions, as mentioned by the representatives of the sector, concern both managerial staff such as engineers, but also machine operators and site foremen.
What Alexis Patelis said in his post
For his part, the Prime Minister’s economic adviser, Alexis Patelis, posted on Twitter/X that “job vacancies reached 38,000 in the fourth quarter of 2023, up 82% and at the highest level since 2009.”
Two announcements coming soon:
1/ Job vacancies hit 38k in the fourth quarter, up 82% from 2022 and the highest level since 2009: pic.twitter.com/jgNg6VOhcp
— Alex Patel (@PatelisAlex) March 19, 2024
In the same vein, the statements of the Director of the Labor Relations Department of the BSE, Katerina Daskalaki, where she points out that “at the moment, there are approximately 90,000 vacant jobs in Industry in technical specialties (16th place in the EU countries), a result of the low degree of penetration of new digital technologies in production and the inability of vocational education and training systems to adapt their curricula.
A similar picture exists in the IT sector with numerous job vacancies (around 10,000 per year for the next 3-5 years)’.
A recent analysis by Teneo ranks Greece last among European countries in the creation of high-tech jobs.
In fact, he estimates that the gap is not only not going to be closed in the next decade, but will widen, as most countries are rapidly moving towards their digital transition.
In particular, as analyzed by Teneo, employment structures have become polarized in many advanced economies in recent decades. While high-skilled jobs have expanded in most countries, low-skilled working-class jobs – especially in manufacturing – have shrunk everywhere.
Source: ot.gr