The Swiss job market has reached a new high in the first three months of 2022. Job vacancies have soared by almost half year-on-year, indicates the latest Swiss Job Market Index from interim giant Adecco published tuesday.
“The growing demand for skilled labor can be explained by the post-coronavirus economic rebound,” notes Marcel Keller, head of the Swiss market for the Zurich multinational, quoted in the document. And to point out that ‘in the near future too, many companies anticipate a further increase in demand’, which is why they are in the process of expanding their production and service capacities.
Despite the uncertainties linked to the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus and the bottlenecks which still strain international supply chains, the number of job offers on the Swiss market has increased by 7% compared to in the last quarter. Compared to the first three months of 2021, the increase is 47%, marking a second record in a row, underlines Adecco.
The authors of the study highlight the growing demand for computer skills, accelerated by repeated confinements during the health crisis. ‘Due to the transformation and digitization that has been going on for years, skills in the use of new technologies will be increasingly expected of employees in the future,’ assures Marcel Keller.
An analysis of job offers in Switzerland over the past seven years shows that almost half (49%) required at least one digital skill, and often several, such as content management or the administration of networks, systems and of data.
This specificity of the demand is particularly pronounced in the search for personnel specialized in IT (99%), technical (66%), administration (60%), economics (60%) and management (55%), less in the social ( 27%), health (24%), services and sales (24%) or construction (16%).
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