All companies are snatching them up. In high demand, executives in the IT sector are nevertheless a rare commodity at the moment. Many recruiters are tearing their hair out to find an engineer or developer. This shortage of candidates is felt almost everywhere in France, and particularly in Brittany where recruitment tensions have increased in recent years. According to the quarterly barometer of the Association for Executive Employment (Apec) published on Monday, the share of recruitment projects deemed difficult by companies thus climbs to 83% for IT executives in the region, against 67% at the national scale.
“Companies receive a low number of applications, underlines Olivier Maurin, regional delegate of Apec in Brittany. And there is also a gap between the applications received and the profiles sought. In this context, competition is fierce to attract talent. Parisian firms do not hesitate to hunt in the region to recruit IT executives. With solid arguments to convince them. “Companies offer them teleworking but also the Parisian salary that goes with it, i.e. 20 to 30% more than the remuneration offered in Brittany”, indicates Olivier Maurin.
The agri-food industry is also struggling to recruit
To keep their executives, some Breton companies are therefore forced to adapt, in particular by offering their employees a four-day week. “Remuneration plays a role of course, especially in this context of inflation, but the working environment is also essential now for executives who apply”, specifies the regional delegate of Apec. If the IT sector is struggling to find executives in Brittany, this is also the case in industry as well as in the food industry, a heavyweight in the Breton economy. “The constraint in this sector is that it is more difficult to telecommute,” adds Olivier Maurin.
Despite the tensions, the job market remains very dynamic with 9,100 recruitments planned by Apec this year in Brittany, a figure up 5% compared to 2021 and 11% compared to 2019.