The Valencian labor market in the coming years will be marked by two factors: the first, the aging of the workforce, as the baby-boom generation will retire; as well as the need for greater qualification of workers. This was revealed this Thursday by the researcher Oriol Homs at the conference on changes in professional profiles and training needs that was held at the headquarters of the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV) in Valencia as a result of a study of Caixabank Dualiza in collaboration with the CEOE Foundation.
There they have predicted that the lack of graduates in the intermediate level of FP qualifications will pose a problem for the replacement of the workforce, a situation that will occur in the industry and also in the tourism sector where, they say, more than half of the workers They do not have an appropriate degree for the trade they carry out in restaurants and hotels or they do not have studies. The problem of the lack of personnel is recurring, especially since the pandemic, as this same medium has already explained on different occasions.
In the conference organized by CaixaBank Dualiza and the Valencian employers' association, they have described the evolution that some of the main sectors of the Valencian economy will undergo and how this will affect the workers who are in the market or who are going to join it in the coming years .
They also predict that more than 100,000 job opportunities will be created this year in the Valencian Community alone, especially in the commerce, hospitality or industry sectors. And of all of them, more than 25,000 will be for FP technicians.
Among the estimates made by the study there is a quantification of employment opportunities in FP in the Valencian Community up to 2030. And in it, industry will increase its opportunities by 16.5%, construction by 7.4% and services 75.4% while agriculture will offer the fewest opportunities, with an increase of only 0.7%.
Also in the study they have analyzed what employment will be like in the agri-food sector, where they consider that, "despite the clear progress in a model of greater qualification of the workforce, there is still an excessive weight of personnel who do not have any related professional qualification with their professional duties. On the other hand, there is an over-qualified workforce in different jobs, which generates an imbalance between the different training levels that are incorporated into the labor market.
In his evaluations, the president of the CEV, Salvador Navarro, highlighted the importance of vocational training and DUAL vocational training "to achieve the balance we need, a balance that would increase the level of employability of the three million unemployed it has Spain and, therefore, would reduce inequalities between citizens, thus contributing to greater social cohesion”.
For her part, the president of the CEOE Foundation, Fátima Báñez, stressed that "Spain's agenda is the talent agenda, and this study adds civil society to generate confidence and opportunities for the future in the Valencian Community, preparing us to make the best decisions.
