A Pôle Emploi agency.

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Pascal Guyot

  • Young people looking for work are living the full effects of the health crisis.

  • However, several devices reserved for this category of population allow recruitments to continue, want to reassure the actors of employment.

Not easy to be 20 years old in 2020. While distress is expressed among students, the health crisis does not spare young people looking for work.

So much so that in Pays-de-la-Loire, the unemployment rate for those under 25 has increased "in an unprecedented way", even more than for the rest of the inhabitants of the territory, indicated the actors of employment. this Thursday.

According to the latest figures from Pôle Emploi, the number of job seekers (category A) under 25 has jumped by 17.7% in one year.

That is five points more than all age groups combined.

However, even if it is not enough to reverse the curve (linked in particular to the fall in temporary work and short contracts), "a dynamism of hiring" would hide behind these bad figures.

"Despite jobs that are disappearing in the face of a growing population, the recruitment of young people has continued, wants to positively Jean-François Dutertre, director of the Direccte des Pays-de-la-Loire.

This year, 65,073 were recruited on CDI or CDD for more than three months.

This is more than the previous two years.

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Specific devices

Driven by the government, the mechanisms of the “One young person, one solution” plan explain these results.

The hiring bonus of 4,000 euros, paid to employers for the recruitment of a young person under 26 (extended until the end of March), has, for example, already been requested 15,000 times.

As for the Youth Guarantee, this allowance paid to those who undertake to follow a path of integration, it was paid to 3,300 Ligériens (8,600 will be affected in 2021).

If catering or tourism are among the most affected sectors, “there are still a whole lot of promising professions where young people have a chance, when we work with them on skills, wants to reassure Alain Mauny, regional director of Pôle Employment, where 92 counselors deal specifically with young people.

Construction, logistics, transport and even the food industry are still sectors in tension.

In the third quarter, in the region, hiring intentions jumped 80%, after falling 46%.

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