3 particularly in those less than 50 employees

Servers, cashiers and maintenance officers will remain, this year, the more courted employees by employers. It is one of the lessons the census to the needs of labour that Unedic has just completed in partnership with the Research Centre for the study and observation of living conditions (Crédoc), from the 417.000 companies that responded. Extrapolated to the whole of the 1.5 million companies, the trend is consistent with that of previous years, where dynamic trades represented already, by a very large majority, low-skilled activities. Hotel employees (98.530 recruitment projects), agents of maintenance (72.637), leaders (67.632), cashiers (51.488) and cooks (34.565) thus remain in the forefront. "The evolution of the intentions of hiring reflects largely the major developments of our society," notes Jean-Pierre Revoil, Director of the Unedic. Hotel-restoration, for example, is derived in large part by the development of fast food ( 8.800). Among the ten trades most wanted is that a single profession of coaching: computer engineers.

Pessimism "surprising".

The difficulties encountered by businesses to fill a position remain important, almost half being considered "difficult" recruitment projects: "this investigation is valuable because it allows the Unedic promote training adapted to the needs of the business," explains Jean-Pierre Revoil, taking evidence the decline in tensions between the surveys 2002 (58.5) and 2006 (44). The difficulties relate to a large part of the skilled construction occupations (masons, carpenters, etc.) and health (nurses, orderlies). More surprising is the decline in the number of hiring intentions expressed by businesses, to the point where the Government is betting on a resurgence of dynamism on the labour market. Companies, which announce 1.2 million of recruitment projects this year, are more averse than the year previous ( 2.3), particularly in those less than 50 employees. However, this corresponds to 3.200 basin of employment projects. "It's the pessimism of small business which is the most surprising", because most of the governmental measures they are dedicated, is the Director General of the Unedic, that sees signs of a "bad situation".

Dynamism of the construction

In fact, it framework poorly with optimistic forecasts of the Government, Bercy building, for example, on a strong recovery of the net job creation this year (200,000, from 85,000 in 2005). The implementation of the contract new hirings and the smoothing of the threshold of 20 employees do not appear to have changed the behaviour of the smaller facilities since September. The decline in hiring intentions focuses in trade ( 14.100 projects), collective, social and household services ( 15.400) activities and the health and social sector ( 7,700). As the previous year, the construction maintains, however, his dynamism ( 5.000).

Geographic concentration

A sentence more than a business on five (310,000) plans to recruit. This proportion is also down from the year previous ( 1.5 point), what appears to be explained by several factors (see below). Seasonal jobs occupy an increasing share (31) among the hiring intentions. In the hotel-restaurant and services to the person, they are even a project on two. Remains whether if the measures adopted by the social partners in December to reduce reliance on seasonal staff succeed in reversing the trend. Unedic also confirms a strong polarization between employment basins: 10 per cent of them concentrated 43 of recruitment projects. Correlated with seasonal activity, the dynamism of coastal, the Pyrenees and the Alps is strong not. Ile-de-France reserves, too, over one-quarter (28) non-seasonal recruitment projects. Some regions (Vendée, Loire-Atlantique) have, finally, a large number of companies in the building, which justifies their dynamism largely.