Source: president’s official spokesman – Media Relations of Treviso Chamber of Commerce

According to the 2010 Excelsior Survey, employment forecasts in the province of Treviso amount to 8,640 inflows – among which 7,520 are not related to seasonal work – and 13,620 outflows.
A negative balance keeps thus being registered in employment flows: termination of employment will probably exceed recruitment figures by 5,000 units in the province of Treviso in 2010 as well.

The negative balance between those aspects of employment is noticeable particularly in some specific sectors: the building industry (-6.5%), textiles and clothing (-5.2%) and the wood sector (-3.6%).

Federico Tessari, president of Treviso Chamber of Commerce, confirms that: «Even though the economic cycle has gradually consolidated, companies remain quite cautious as for recruitment, as expected.
Only the 15.9% of enterprises from Treviso plan to hire staff, mainly due to staff turnover management and needs to meet growing demand. Companies planning to hire employees should be nearly the 16.5%, more or less the same as last year.
However, it’s more remarkable if we consider that these figures were close to the 27.2% in 2007, which means they decreased by over 10 percentage points

The industrial sectors seem more likely to employ staff (19%), while the building sector appears to be the least inclined to hire, at the moment (12.8%)».

Going beyond recruitment figures – which are negative for all sectors except financial services (+40) –, the sectors which will support recruitment the most within the province of Treviso will be:
1. operational, advanced and financial business services (1,630 in-flows forecast);
2. retail and wholesale trade (1,450 in-flows forecast);
3. public services (1,020 in-flows forecast);
4. mechanical and electrical engineering (820);
5. building industry (660);
6. licensed premises (550);
7. furniture industry (500).

Job profiles and educational levels required
Lower demand for manufacturing personnel such as blue-collar workers and machine operators strongly influences the subdivision of job profiles in 2010 as in previous years.
In 2007, the above-mentioned profiles amounted to the 43.2% of total recruitment figures, while they only reach the 31.8% in 2010.
However, there has been a slight increase in the demand for machine operators, from 11.9% in 2009 to 14.3% in 2010, which means that manufacturing activities recovered.

As for Professionals, increases have been registered from 360 inflows forecasts in 2009 to 500 in 2010.
The most required profiles are Public service administrative professionals and Business professionals, Life science and health professionals, and Physical, mathematical and computing professionals.

As for Technicians and associate professionals, 1,420 staff are expected to be hired on a non-seasonal basis, slightly more than 2009, when they were 1,380. The most required profiles are included in the Other associate professionals group, that is, Administrative associate professionals, Finance and sales associate professionals and Business services agents and trade brokers.

Figures are stable in absolute terms for what concerns clerical jobs, which amount to the 12.8% of total recruitment forecast: they include Secretaries and keyboard-operating clerks, Cashiers, tellers and related clerks, Numerical clerks and Material-recording and transport clerks.

As for Service workers and shop and market sales workers, figures are stable as well, involving the following profiles: Shop, stall and market salespersons and demonstrators and Housekeeping and restaurant services workers.

Less staff will be hired in absolute terms in the group of Craft and related trades workers as for Machinery mechanics and fitters and Building frame and related trades workers.

Forecasts indicate that more staff will be hired from the group of Plant and machine operators and assemblers, among which the most required profiles are: Motor vehicles drivers in the sectors of transport or logistics, Industrial robot operators, Wood-processing plant operators, Assemblers and Rubber and plastic–products machine operators.

Educational qualifications required
Out of 7,520 hirings forecasted in the province of Treviso, 1,080 (that is, the 14.3%) will require university degrees; 3,450 (45.8%) post-compulsory, upper secondary education; 860 (11.4%, less than in previous years) only require vocational degrees or qualifications from the vocational and training programs organized by regions.
For the remainder (2,140), no degree is needed.

The most required university degree is economics, followed by engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical specializations, political and social studies and medicine and paramedical studies.

As for post-compulsory, upper secondary education, the most required qualifications are: administrative and commercial (nearly the 37% of required profiles) and technical studies, especially mechanical ones, followed by tourism and hotel studies which are particularly appreciated for high level linguistic knowledge.
It must be pointed out that also specializations in agricultural and food disciplines are asked for by companies.

The president of Unioncamere Veneto Mr Federico Tessari explains that: «As for educational qualifications, there is an upward trend as pointed out in previous Excelsior surveys, which was certainly emphasized by the crisis.

The demand for graduates and personnel with a secondary school certificate grew to 60.1% as compared to the 55.8% in last year and the 45.8% in 2007.
Additionally, as a probable secondary consequence of the crisis, there was also a U-turn concerning personnel without specific training (from 21.5% to 28.4%).

These figures may include personnel who suffered layoffs due to the crisis: there might be demand for them because of the experience they gained».