Handicraft businesses in fact give the building its position as the second sector in terms of number of establishments in urban and rural areas.
The building sector is one of the sectors that has seen its activity grow in recent years, with the exception of 2020. The ecological transition, through the thermal renovation of buildings, the digital transition or even the renovation of heritage open up job opportunities and new skills needs.
In this context, the partnership between CAPEB and Pôle emploi has a dual objective:
- Meet the growing needs of this sector which has known, since the end of the first confinement in March 2020, a level of offers equivalent to that of 2019;
- Act jointly on recruitment difficulties recurring in order to offer new opportunities for job seekers to return to work.
The common will of CAPEB and Pôle emploi is in particular to strengthen joint work between their respective networks, as close as possible to craft businesses, in order to facilitate the sharing of information on trades and their local specificities. This cooperation will result in the establishment of building advisers, at the most relevant level, by the reliability of information from job seekers and by the identification of transferable skills in order to broaden recruitments to candidates coming from sectors. different by mobilizing, if necessary, the training systems of the sector. This partnership also includes the identification and support of job seekers with a business creation or takeover project.
For Jean-Christophe Repon, President of CAPEB: “The lack of manpower and the virtual shortage of qualified manpower are the daily life of many of our companies. Despite the Covid period, orders are picking up again, order books are filling up and, twice as hard for business leaders, they can no longer find employees. Public employment players and economic lifebloods must definitely collaborate in a new way with the aim of matching up employment supply and demand as closely as possible to the territories. We are in a sector, construction, which is very attractive, where professional careers can be built quickly and well. This is the point that must be made to young men and women when they are given orientation in order to resolve this employment problem in depth. "
For Jean Bassères, Managing Director of Pôle emploi: “Pôle emploi has been mobilizing alongside professionals for a long time and even more so in the period we are going through to take action against recruitment difficulties. This agreement is the translation. The building industry offers jobs that are renewed and still needs new talents in all trades. Our role is fundamental to attract different profiles to this sector in high demand and also to promote the creation or takeover of a business in the building crafts sector. "