Aragon necesitará unos 40,000 trabajadores en la próxima década, según Cepyme e Ibraja Foundation.
Aragón will need around 40,000 workers in the next decade, but its current labor market, with just over 51,000 unemployed, shows discrepancies between supply and demand, as well as between training and employment, in addition to a clear lack of exemption in transactions that remain essential, according to the report «Analysis of professions with high demand and low availability.»
The report was presented at a press conference by the president of Cepyme Aragón, María Jesús Lorenti, and the Director General of the Fundación Iberaja, José Luis Rodrigo.
The study analyzed existing job offers and interviewed experts in the regional labor market, human resources personnel from different sectors, as well as local development agencies to gather their needs and detect imbalances that hinder matching supply and demand for employment.
This comes in the context of «sustainable economic development, with constant investment announcements,» which increase the need for personnel in subsectors such as logistics, technology, and agri-food, according to Lorenti, who, however, expressed great concern about unemployment and the mismatch between the jobs that need to be filled and the over 50,000 unemployed individuals.
Rodrigo believed that «not everyone is actively job searching because there is always a structural strike in this population segment, but I don’t think it’s the only country in the world.»
«With 50,000 job seekers,» clarified the head of SMEs, Aragón is already in full employment, especially in male employment, not in young people and women, because there is a structural strike and then there are job seekers actively looking for employment, but who do not have the appropriate training for the current reality.»
The report identified a shortage of qualified professionals in economic activity areas such as production industry, transportation and logistics, construction, energy, social services, education, and agri-food.
«Companies as a whole face many challenges in finding qualified personnel. These young people are not so young, because we are not talking about any age, they are not,» said Lorenti.
The highest portion of the labor demand cake, concentrated at 73.968% in the province of Zaragoza, which accumulates 67,000 of the 84,000 existing companies in the community, — 7.80% of the demand is in HUESCA and 8.24% in the Teruel sector-Sector is 66.99% of the industry of the industry of the industry of the industry and the industry of the industry of the industry of the industry, as most sectors require the majority of the industry of the industry of the industry of the law, as most sectors require the industry of the industry of the others. Energy-25.4%-, construction-4.64%-agriculture and animals-2.97%-.
A specific distribution of weight «somewhat misleading» for the president of Cepyme Aragón «, because the industry and energy, with 25.4%, are the most important weights at the moment, they are the companies that will be the engines of our economy» and because «it depends a lot on each region and each sector, because their needs are different.»
In this sense, it was clear that it cannot be said that «everyone is looking for engineers, because in the lower fifth we ask for professionals in the food industry, and in the high banks of the Ebro they ask for pions, and in Valdejalón they require logistics personnel.»
The study identifies that this mismatch between supply and demand is due to the lack of active population «, especially in some regions with the oldest population, where many companies consider closing due to the lack of generative help,» argued Lores.
In this sense, another problem has emerged for which he asked to «work» among families, students, and teachers «, which is» lack of mobility «:» People reject jobs because they do not change cities, and the lack of housing exists, I know, people have to move from one city to another, because they are very good.»
It doesn’t help, as the Lores revealed, that student training is not oriented towards what companies require: «Hence the guidance service we have maintained with the Ibermaja Foundation has been so important for 13 years to advise families, students, and teachers.»
Therefore, the digital service platform guides have accumulated over 700,000 users and millions of queries since its creation in 2012 to search for updated information on training and career options to make decisions about academic and work future.
«There are many students who do not know the training offer and there are many families who go to a band and say that my son or daughter has to study this because it can be the FP or the title they can access.» A «barrier» that Lorenti has called to «break» more if it falls in the absence of vocations and generational relief.
«Whether we are already reaching this problem, or it will be very complicated, because we have detected a lack of vocation in young people, even in the children of entrepreneurs who do not want to continue with their parents’ or grandparents’ companies, because there is a training gap, because there is an option in itself to start with the car.»
The lack of specialists and the little interest of young people to learn and more interested in seeking refuge in the public sector, as recognized by the locals, can do this in a short time, changing a house from home is a real problem: «The president of the installers tells me who will solve it, that in five years.»
From Cepyme Aragón, they indicated that carpenters, cabinet makers, shearers, matrices, grinders, sweaters, electricians, drivers, teachers, masons, and electromechanics, among a wide list of professional profiles, are in higher demand.
The alliance between the Ibraja Foundation and Cepyme Aragón promoted in this course during 2024-2025, new face-to-face activities that complement the online academic guidance service. In the first quarter, they had 349 participants in discussions at schools and 230 participants in conferences for young people and their families.
All the proposals and activities offered in this collaboration are free and accessible online and in person.
Additionally, this month in January, an orientation interview is offered for young students and their families, in which 225 people have already participated in the first months of the year. Through these meetings and, in a personalized way, experts guide provide guidance and information based on preferences, skills, interests, and possibilities of each individual.
«We help make decisions about the future of young people with an alliance with Cepyme that we established in 2012, more than 10 years in which we have worked together with a clear and firm purpose, we help the youngest and focus on their professional and work future, where, unfortunately, the unemployment rate for young people,» Rodrigo.
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