There are jobs that are always in demand
There are those who question the efficiency of the Spanish labor market. It is true that the unemployment rate is structurally high compared to the data of neighboring countries (close to 14% while in Germany, for example, it is 6%), but in our country, a quite unusual phenomenon occurs: there are jobs whose positions are not filled due to the lack of qualified professionals to carry them out.
This strange mismatch affects a fairly significant percentage of the directors of a large part of the Spanish companies, who confess that they see it and want to find suitably qualified personnel to fill jobs in their respective companies. Although in this case, it is something quite recurrent in the rest of the countries of the developed world, numbers that have not stopped growing in the last decade throughout the planet.
The technological challenge
Although the lack of demand for jobs mainly affects those positions related to digital transformation (such as artificial intelligence, application developers, or customer management experts), it also occurs in the field of Vocational Training, in jobs such as warehouse waiters, forklift drivers or ham boners, where many companies have great difficulties in filling the jobs offered.
After the economic and financial crisis of 2008, which particularly hit the construction sector in Spain, in recent years the sector has had serious difficulties in finding specialists such as ironworkers, crane operators, or heavy machinery operators, and in the industrial sector, it usually costs a lot find forklift drivers, toolmakers, welders, millers, mechanics, and electromechanics.
The main reason these jobs are in such low demand is that they tend to be very physically demanding jobs, and employees are sometimes subjected to what is known as heat stress, with large temperature changes very often during their working day.
If we talk about money, in these professions that are so unattractive for job seekers, annual salaries are on average between 25,000 and 35,000 euros gross, but the jobs in which it is more difficult to cover the offer, salaries can reach up to 40,000 euros a year, due to lack of demand.
FP more requested than the University
According to data provided by organizations such as the National Institute of Statistics (INE), in 2019, just one year before the pandemic, the demand for workers from Vocational Training exceeded that of university graduates for the first time. The results in the employment of this type of professionals are much higher, and even the salaries are much better than those of those who find specialized work from the university studies they have carried out.
Precisely, another of the figures that are growing more and more is that of university graduates who end up entering the labor market to fill jobs that are not related, directly or indirectly, to the specialized studies they have carried out, which is incurred in the phenomenon of overqualification.
