A survey by Robert Half – specialist recruitment company – the world of work has highlighted the extreme lack of administrative staff: an Italian in five is completely lacking this professional.
For 41% of Italian firms (27% in Europe) the cause is the difficulty in finding skilled personnel.
20% have planned recruitment Administration and Accounting within the next six months, to cope with the increase in turnover for the business.
The crisis makes it even more important than careful analysis of the accounts of the company to reduce costs, recover cash, collect receivables and expedite the legal practices.
Among the reasons why Italian companies plan to strengthen the administrative structure are: increase in business (48%), increased administrative (27%), upgrading of information systems (18%), corporate mergers and acquisitions ( 3%) increase in regulatory requirements (0%), other reasons (3%).
Among the qualifications required will be more than an administrative employee (25%), accounting (22%), staff with operational roles (-13%), internal auditors (8%) and expert in compliance (7%).
The Observatory on employment in administration and finance has also involved Italian leaders, who complained of too low a level of preparedness among the candidates and then a gap between demand and supply of labor.