The thirst for workers grows, but each year more and more companies are left empty-handed . The Island knows this well as summer approaches: there are tens of thousands of available jobs, more and more . But what is lacking are suitable candidates, even for the least qualified positions.
And so, for a few weeks now , the hunt for figures to be employed during the tourist season has started again . Whether they are waiters between the tables of a restaurant or drivers for parcel delivery services, clerks for clothing stores or cleaners in hotels.
THE NUMBERS – The monthly report by Infocamere , based on the requests that the companies themselves make to local employment centers, confirms the short circuit : contracts ready to be signed in Sardinia by June would be over 46 thousand, a record number and about 1,600 more than last year . The driving sector, as anticipated, is tourism , but in the wake of the holiday success , business services, logistics, manufacturing and road haulage are also thriving . These are sectors that are desperately trying to increase their staff in view of the hot season, but in 46% of cases, again according to Infocamere, they are unable to do so.
RESEARCH – «Many restaurant entrepreneurs have now made a virtue of necessity», admits Emanuele Frongia, regional president of Fipe-Confcommercio . «They moved in advance to look for the necessary staff and those who were unable to fill all the empty slots have rescheduled their opening hours to stay open». A shortage of staff that clashes with the other side of the coin of the sector where many entrepreneurs complain about a phenomenon as paradoxical as it is widespread: that of deserting job interviews. «Only 20% of those who make an appointment, then keep it», say some restaurateurs in the centre of Cagliari. However, there is something apparently inexplicable in the world of work because .
