Coronavirus: despite the health crisis, certain sectors continue to recruit

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Because of confinement, partial unemployment today concerns nearly one in two private sector employees in France, or 10.2 million people. However, there are still industries that are recruiting.

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Health, food chain, transport or even IT: the coronavirus crisis has led to the emergence of recruitment needs in certain sectors of activity despite a “historic” decline in hiring since the start of confinement and weakened economic activity.

Reports of hiring on CDI or CDD for more than a month plunged 22.6% in March to around 6.1 million, a "  historic monthly decline  ", according to figures released this week by the Agency. central of social security organizations (Acoss).

Combined effect of the health crisis and its corollary, confinement, the reduction in the number of hires even reaches half a million (around 531,000) including short-term contracts. However, while partial unemployment today affects nearly one in two private sector employees - 10.2 million people -, certain sectors are continuing to recruit.

The number of job offers is starting to go up

On a panel of fifteen sites, the number of offers published from April 10 to 16 "  goes back to 80% of the pre-containment level  " when it reached only 60% in the last three weeks, according to the weekly summary of Dares, the statistics service of the Ministry of Labor. A recovery "  strongly driven by the medical field  ".

"  The sectors that show the most recruitment needs at this time are logically those on the front line facing the health crisis : the field of health, social action and personal assistance  ", explains the director of services to Pôle Emploi businesses. "  Then, in the second line, there are those who contribute to the food chain, such as the food trade, the agrifood industry and agriculture,  " continues Catherine Poux.

Last Friday, on the government's mobilemploi.gouv.fr website , 13,000 job offers were available in these sectors but also in those of transport, logistics and IT. The latter has a bright future ahead of him thanks to the development of telework and online commerce. Thus, the digital sector is looking more and more for IT professionals and developers. 

Confinement is indeed transforming social habits. Polls show that a majority of French people want to continue teleworking after confinement. 

(With AFP)

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