Jobs, what are the most requested professions in 2022

What are the most requested professions in 2022? According to the analysis carried out by Randstad on the job advertisements at the beginning of 2022, the most sought after are the warehouse worker, the metalworker and the nurse, followed by 12 other profiles who altogether they represent almost 4 thousand open positions .

In all, fifteen professions very different in terms of required skills, levels of seniority and sectors to which they belong , which as a whole – from industry to healthcare, from large-scale distribution to ICT – photograph the trends in progress on the labor market, at a time of strong growth in supply, but also of difficulties in find the right candidates to meet the needs of companies.

Work, which are the most requested profiles

The most requested profile is the warehouse worker , for which Randstad now has over 1200 open positions . A rapidly growing role for the expansion of logistics as an effect of production growth and the boom in eCommerce, also witnessed by the growing demands of call center employees (the fourth profession most sought after) for customer service activities.

In second place, there is the metal worker , who with almost 900 open positions it demonstrates the great vitality of the Italian manufacturing sector which in its various sectors also requires machine tool operators (in 6th place), electricians (8th), welders (10th), food industry operators (11th) and wood machinery workers (13th place) to support the increase in production and to introduce the new skills required by the fourth industrial revolution.

In third place the nurse ( over 800 open positions ), a profession that cannot be found by definition, which, together with the health and social worker in seventh position, highlights the chronic shortage of health professions, aggravated by the explosion of the pandemic and the new needs for care and assistance.

As a result of the digital transformation that invests across the board all sectors, among the fifteen most requested profiles three are ICT (Java developer, system administrator, help desk ) for which today there are more than 300 active searches, including skills IT are now common requirements for many other professions.

Work, where they are most in demand

analysis refers to job searches open throughout Italy, but some territorial specificities emerge according to the specializations of the various districts: the requests of machine tool operators , for example, mainly concern Northern Italy , while the wood machinery operators are concentrated in the North-East they electricians are particularly sought after in the south central .

Work, the list of profiles

The fifteen most requested profiles in Italy in 2022 are:

1. Warehouse worker
2. Metalworker / assembly worker
3. Nurse
4. call center
5. Administrative employee
6. Machine tool operator
7. Health and social worker
8. Electrician
9. Java Developer
10. Welder
11. Food operator
12. System administrator
13. Wood machinery operator
14. Multi-service operator in large-scale distribution / horeca
15. Help desk clerk