📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) presented the results of the Occupational Demand Survey (EDO) with projection to 2023, which reveals that of the total number of companies with 20 or more workers nationwide, 41.4% would demand additional personnel to occupy new jobs this year. This figure is almost double that obtained for 2022.
According to the survey, all the companies that would hire additional staff would generate a demand for more than 348,2023 new jobs in 274, of which 78,8 (74.21%) would correspond to temporary jobs and 2,<> (<>.<>%) to fill positions of a permanent nature.
Compared to the expectations of hiring new personnel in 2022 (reported by companies in 2021), there is a considerable increase equivalent to more than 127 thousand new jobs. That is, there would be an increase of 57.9% in occupational demand and hiring intentions of employers, compared to 2022.
Demand characteristic
Among the most demanded occupations of a permanent nature for this year are: protection guards in establishments; employees of statistical, financial and insurance services; cleaners and assistants in offices, hotels and other establishments; and farm laborers.
On the other hand, 72.5% of the demand for permanent positions would require workers to have work experience in the occupation to be performed; 73.7% would request to have at least one type of digital skill; and the majority of staff would be recruited mainly on a fixed-term contract basis (74.8 per cent).
For the total of new permanent posts to be recruited, 45.4 per cent require at least a completed secondary school; and 32.7 per cent require higher education (15.7 per cent higher technical education and 17.0 per cent higher university); While 9.8% do not require complete basic education, 2.0% require technical auxiliary level (up to 1 year of study) and 7.6% technical level (1 to 2 years of study).
Among the most demanded careers in positions of a permanent nature in 2023 at the technical level (from 1 to 2 years of study), are required: Database administration and accounting; at the technical professional level they would be Administration; Accounting; and Computing and Informatics; while, at the university level they would be Administration; Industrial engineering; Business administration; and Civil Engineering.
ABOUT EDO
The presentation of the EDO was in charge of Nubie Chávez Tejeda, general director of Employment Promotion of the MTPE, who stressed that this survey also collects information on the characteristics that the personnel to be hired are expected to have, such as: educational requirements, careers, digital skills, competencies, previous experience, among others.
For his part, the Deputy Minister of Labor, Juan Navarro Pando, recalled that the EDO began to be executed ten years ago, and is a quality product prepared by MTPE professionals who inject great technical rigor.
Panelists included José Luis Naranjo Correa, director of the National Society of Industries; Ana Alfaro Carlín, director of Productive, Higher Technological and Artistic Technical Education Services of Minedu; and Janina León Castillo, president of the Board of Directors of the Economic and Social Research Consortium (CIES) and head of the Department of Economics of the PUCP.
The MTPE applied the Occupational Demand Survey aimed at companies with 20 or more workers, the results of which are presented for 19 geographical areas: 17 departments, plus Lima Provinces, Metropolitan Lima and Callao, and by economic sectors. The EDO allows us to know information about the hiring intentions of private sector employers for this 2023.
