who will recruit in France in 2024?

Which sectors and which regions will mainly be the subject of interesting prospects? The daily “Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France” devotes a report to it in partnership with franceinfo.

It is a special 16-page notebook with analyzes and testimonies. Who will recruit in 2024? This is the question at a time when, after several years of falling unemployment in France, we are seeing a decline, and when the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, is making full employment the objective to be achieved at the end of the year. end of his second term in 2027.

For their part, companies still encounter difficulties in recruiting. With another particularity of the French market highlighted by the temporary employment group Randstad France which collaborated in the survey: in 2023, 53% of jobs filled in France were filled without the slightest publication of offers. That is to say that a little more than one job in two has passed under the radar of the general public, outside of any traditional announcement. It is in a way a parallel market maintained by digitalization, via social networks or simply word of mouth or the resourcefulness to find work by activating one’s network and knowledge.

Sectors that are recruiting

Aeronautics is the number one sector for recruitment with groups like Thales, Safran, Dassault, Airbus. With the renovation of the power plant fleet and the construction of new reactors, there are employment prospects. The arms sector, sustained by the tense geopolitical context, also provides jobs. There are also green jobs with sorting, wind power, renovation. On the other hand, according to Randstad, companies will recruit less in construction.

Each region has its own specialties. The Pays de la Loire is at the forefront with the naval industry operating at full capacity. In Saint-Nazaire, for example, Chantiers de l’Atlantique now offers 400 permanent contracts (permanent-term contracts). In PACA, solar panels are a hit. Manufacturers even go so far as to create their own schools. In Lyon, it is the video game industry in particular that can generate jobs… In short, so many reasons to hope, because solutions exist. We emerge from this economics supplement of Parisian-Today in France with lots of ideas. All that remains is to send CVs.