Lhe Milanese companies are grappling with ever-increasing difficulties linked to the search for personnel. The imbalance between job supply and demand today also finds objective confirmation in the unemployment rate which, based on the latest available data dating back to 2022, has fallen to 5.4%; a figure lower than the 5.9% recorded in pre-Covid (2019).
The economic fabric of Milan shows a multi-sectoral nature: alongside the manufacturing “heart”, in fact, there are companies involved in the field of innovative services with a high knowledge value. This characteristic emerges from the analysis of the 325 thousand job advertisements published in 2023 in the metropolitan city area, based on the surveys carried out by the Lightcast platform.
«The historical period we are experiencing is profoundly characterized by a real emergency linked to the search for skills», declared Monica Poggio, vice-president of Assolombarda with responsibility for University, Research and Human Capital.
With over 80 thousand advertisements, it is not surprising, therefore, that the most sought after professional category is that of specialists, whose tasks require a high level of theoretical knowledge, acquired through the completion of university education courses; together with managers (almost 30 thousand), “specialists” constitute the professional group that has the largest market share (35%). The high concentration of large companies and multinationals is also the basis of the almost 80 thousand advertisements linked to the search for executive figures: in particular, these are office employees and commercial profiles, which represent a quarter of the total.
The important manufacturing sector generates an intense demand for technicians (54 thousand advertisements, equal to 17% of demand) but also for “blue collar workers”: the advertisements reserved for specialized workers and plant operators, in fact, are 30 thousand, almost 10% of the total. This scenario is completed with a limited residual – equal to 13% of the Milanese demand – relating to the search for unqualified figures. A clear “mismatch” emerges from the indications of the Excelsior survey on the difficulties encountered by companies in finding specific profiles. With particular reference to the Metropolitan City of Milan, there is an average of 4 out of 10 unobtainable candidates. The major critical issues concern specialized workers and conductors; 52% of searches are unsuccessful. No less problematic is the situation of “technicians”: candidates who do not meet the specifications considered most significant represent 47% of cases, with peaks of 60% for IT technicians and professionals in the engineering field and 75% for health technicians. .
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