Posted Jan 24, 2022, 8:51 AMUpdated on Jan 24, 2022 at 8:56 am
Revenge time has come for the engineers. “In the 1980s and 1990s, France completely abandoned industry to take an interest in services. Thus jewels like Schlumberger or Alstom have been abandoned in favor of more fashionable companies like L’Oréal or Danone. Engineers were much less popular then,” recalls Gilles Foëx, founder of the recruitment firm Cadr’Avenir. Thus, long before the talent wars broke out in tech, engineers were not always carried by favorable winds. But they were able, in the eyes of the recruiter, to make their update.
To the point of making themselves indispensable and, de facto, particularly courted. “The term ‘technical’ is no longer a dirty word. The engineer plays a leading role by also being trained in finance or marketing, for example”. A “resizing” in order which arouses the desire in certain sectors under very strong tension, in particular the digital one. Thus, according to data from Numeum, a trade union representing digital companies, there is currently a shortage of nearly 10,000 computer engineers in France out of the 600,000 employees by software publishers.
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