Mélina Facchin with Margaux Fodéré, edited by Laura Laplaud and Gauthier Delomez
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5:02 p.m., January 25, 2023
Recruitment is the big challenge for companies but also for regions. According to a France Strategy – DARES report, recruitment tensions will worsen for some companies. Conversely, others will be able to count on young people entering the labor market. This is the case in Île-de-France, in Hauts-de-France, but also in the Grand Est. Between 2019 and 2030, the proportion of young people who should start their career there to fill positions created or left vacant by seniors would be higher than the national average, according to this study.
If there are so many beginners in these regions, it is because the population is young, but not only. “In Nancy, in Strasbourg, young people who are between 20 and 29 years old are much more numerous in the Grand Est because they come to study there. In general, they start their career there”, explains Cécile Jolly, co-author of the report entitled Professions 2030: what regional recruitment prospects?au micro d’Europe 1.
Fewer recruitment difficulties
This pool of young workers should enable the Grand Est to replace empty positions in the coming years. “We are going to have a lot of departures at the end of our careers, which will create a lot of recruitment needs, which will be occupied by relatively many beginners in the Grand Est”, underlines the co-author of the report. “There will be less aggravation of recruitment difficulties in this region than in others, such as New Aquitaine.”
And this, especially since with less dynamic economic activity in the Grand Est than in other regions, employment will not increase much either.
“I don’t see myself coming back to Nice”
A few years ago, Anthony, originally from Nice, arrived in Strasbourg to finish his studies. Finally, he falls in love with this city and its region and decides to stay there. “Each time, they tell me ‘we left the sun and the sea to go to Strasbourg’ but I, in the end, I answer them that the mentality is much better here. It moves a lot more for my job, I am intermittent, I started to make my network and the fact that I am closer to Paris, it is much simpler than if I were in Nice”, he explains at the microphone of Europe 1. “J I had the opportunity to buy an intermittent friend’s apartment. I don’t see myself coming back to Nice.”
“It’s a small village”
Suana comes from Martinique, Guillaume from Montpellier, both are students here in the Alsatian capital and they would see themselves staying there once they entered working life. “I really appreciate it, it’s a bit of a small village with all the advantages of a big city, why not stay there long term,” she explains. “Strasbourg is good and as it is a European capital, there is the possibility of going to Brussels quite easily. Then, here, people are warm”, continues Guillaume. Each year, nearly 60,000 students come to Strasbourg.
