Finding the right candidate for the job is a growing problem for companies in Spain, although this is still the case. State with the highest rates in the European Union unemployment. At the end of last year, employers CEOE He presented a report from Randstad stating that three out of four companies were having difficulty filling their vacancies.
A year later, the problem persists, forcing some companies to leave their biases behind. According to a recent study by the Pimec Foundation, Lack of profiles leads to more companies hiring people over 55But 63% still don’t do this.
There are many industries complaining about staff shortages, but not all of them have updated their salaries in the same way to make going to work more attractive. structure And hostel These are two examples; They have increased since the coronavirus emerged salariesbut below average. Also banking or education among others. On the contrary, the hard-pressed transport or healthcare sector has exceeded the Spanish average with salary increases since 2019.
These are some of the touches he left to evolution. fees The latest active population survey (EPA) lists the average salary for a full day in Spain as follows: 2,341 gross euros per monthThat’s about 6% above the 2019 average, before the pandemic began.
If there are two sectors where salaries have clearly risen with particular intensity since the emergence of Covid, probably for different reasons, these are energetic And ICT companies. The former made record profits, causing headaches for thousands of households, especially since the start of the war in Ukraine. And second, it’s another step up in the global competition that leading companies are waging to attract the best programmers, data analysts and cybersecurity engineers.
Just the opposite, mining industry professionals Not only have they not seen their salaries increase on average, but this is also an area where payrolls are losing value. It is not at its best, marked by the rise in energy prices, which, among other problems, has had a serious impact on private dependency sectors.
Vacant quota discussions also had their impact within the Government. Months ago, Social Security relaxed the requirements for immigrants who were already living in Spain but did not have a work permit to streamline their situations. In addition, to make things easier for companies recruitment at originIt angered the Ministry of Labor, which thought there was no vacancy problem in Spain.
Lately, Conflict broke out between the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Labor over unemployment benefit reform. The first proposes changing the benefit so that the amount collected is higher at the beginning and lower at the end, in order to encourage more unemployed people to take a job. The workforce, on the other hand, prioritizes providing more and better income to avoid forcing the unemployed to accept low-quality employment.