• Guest of the LCI morning show, Monday, September 27, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux was asked about the number of unfilled jobs each year in France.

  • According to the head of Medef, the figure of 300,000 offers would be "underestimated".

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How many recruitment offers from Pôle Emploi today do not find a candidate for hiring in France?

This is what the journalist Elizabeth Martichoux wished to know, Monday, September 27, who received Geoffroy Roux from Bézieux in the morning of LCI: “300,000 jobs would be unfilled, according to Pôle Emploi.

Is that an estimate that seems realistic to you?

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In response, the president of Medef (Mouvement des entreprises de France) estimated that the reality of this figure, which "has been running according to him for twenty years", was greater than 300,000 jobs: "I think it is underestimated because that there is a lot of self-censorship of recruiting, a lot of bosses of small companies who say to themselves "anyway I'm not going to find so I'm not recruiting".

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➡300,000 jobs not filled by #PoleEmploi: is that a figure that seems realistic to you?



🗣️ @ GeoffroyRDB du @medef: "We don't know, I think it's underestimated (...) This figure of 300,000 is 20 years old (...) I think it's more"



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- LCI (@LCI) September 27, 2021

Without going back two decades, this question has in any case been open to debate for several years, as evidenced by a number of recent articles.

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in 2012 ("Unemployment: how many unfilled jobs are there in France?" ), via France Info in 2018, this figure is tough.

At the beginning of September 2021, Jean Castex put a part back in the machine, deploring the “waste” represented by the “300,000 jobs to be filled” according to the Banque de France.

“It is complicated to know what the figures [mentioned by Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux] include, and we should rather ask ourselves what an abandoned recruitment offer consists of.

It can be withdrawn because it has been filled elsewhere if it has been posted in duplicate, or even to have been filled but remain online by default of updating… ”, tempers Hadrien Clouet, sociologist at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès specializing in employment, underemployment and unemployment issues.

"Employers lack the time, staff and financial means to recruit"

“The real question to ask, when a recruitment is abandoned, is to know why it was. These recruitments are often difficult because employers lack the time, staff and financial means to recruit, ”continues Hadrien Clouet. In the 2021 edition of the “Need for manpower” survey carried out annually by Pôle Emploi, the “lack of financial resources” was thus put forward by 22.8% of recruiting establishments among the recruitment difficulties they faced. "Think to meet".

"The shortage of candidates remains the main difficulty in recruiting for 77% of potential recruiters, in front of the inadequacy of profiles, cited by 75% of employers", further details the report, while only 58% of recruiters surveyed plan to " make the job offer more attractive, [to] improve working conditions ”to resolve these difficulties.

Between 210,000 to 350,000 recruitments abandoned over a year

The latest Pôle Emploi survey on “filled vacancies” and “dropouts” in 2018 allows us to see a little more clearly.

Out of 3.2 million offers submitted, 2.9 million had thus been filled, 112,000 recruitments canceled (for "disappearance of the need" or "unavailable budget"), 154,000 abandoned for lack of candidates, and 74,000 were still continuing.

And Pôle Emploi estimate, according to an "extrapolation to all recruitments on the national territory", that "210,000 to 350,000 recruitments are abandoned over a year", mainly among very small companies (less than 10 employees), worker positions and in the industrial sector.

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