48% of employers plan recruitment in the IT industry

The 48% of employers in its industry IT plans to move on to hiringsaccording to the new figures of the quarterly establishedof hiring intentions survey of the ManpowerGroup group.

In particular, the 48% of employers in the specific industry plans to move on to hiringsjust the 9% predicts a decrease, 42% do not expect any change, etcand a imperceptible percentage (1%) does not know what to do.

According to the research, it is evident that, in the 3rd quarter of 2023, it is observed in Greece increase in IT hiring intentions (39%)compared to the immediately preceding quarter, where hiring intentions amounted to +6%, while from January to March 2023 it was +27%.

Lack of IT talent

Despite the growth in demand in its sector ITorganizations still face its strong challenge lack of skilled personnel.

Based on the group’s annual talent shortage survey for this year, 8 to 10 (81%) Greek employers report difficulty finding candidates.

What are the top five IT staffing priorities

Employers’ first staffing priority is technical assistance (39%) followed by customer experience (36%), application development (31%) and cyber security (28%). The top five is “closed” by automation of processes in the workplace (27%).

Regarding the top 5 approaches to dealing with ttechnological opportunities and challenges53% of employers in the sector choose her reskilling of workers, followed by training and upgrading of current human resources (51%), followed by recruitment of short-term staff of employment (freelancers, contract workers) to cover skills gaps (49%), h recruitment of new employees with the required skillses (45%) and the largest investment in automation (43%).

According to talent search hiring intent data ITthe biggest challenge of Greek employers (27%) regarding retraining/skills upgrading programs is the fact that employees do not have enough time to be able to progress to retraining.

As the survey points out, IT workers need upskilling. 28% of Greek employers would upgrade their technical skills, the 32% in upgrading the corporate culture and 29% in soft skills (communication, leadership, curiosity, collaboration, creativity).

«By looking at data on hiring intent for IT talent and sharing in practice the problems and challenges employers face in the IT industry IT in Greece, the shift to building IT talent is essential. For this reason, we at ManpowerGroup Greece created the Tech Academies, a series of retraining programs designed to provide STEM graduates with the exact knowledge and skills that the job market requires today, so that they are ready to be productively integrated into project teams from the first day of their membership“, notes the managing director of ManpowerGroup Greece, Charalambos Kazantzidis.