Mining and trade concentrate half of the labor required within the next 5 years
Sonami, says that the increased demand will be for equipment operators and maintainers. Meanwhile in retail, malls, department stores and super markets they will need the largest number of people
Half of workers required for investment projects in the country within the next five years corresponds to labor from mining and trade.
According to the report on demand for employees recently developed by the Industrial Development Society (Sofofa), the two focus areas identified concentrate 330 333 jobs of a total of 653.800 positions projected from now up to 2018.
Mining ranks first with 32.4% of the workforce. Estimates of human capital requirement in the pointed industry show that the greatest need is given by operators and maintainers of fixed and mobile equipment, explains Alvaro Merino, Sonami Studies Manager.
The executive explained that Sofofa figures are in line with those of the INE, which show that the rolling quarter January to March 2010 and March-May 2013, 837.000 new jobs have been created in the country. In mining, in the same period, employment grew by 31%.
On trade, this category represents 18.1% of all jobs required for the next five years, with 118,510 new jobs.
The President of the National Chamber of Commerce, Richard Mewes, argues that the most active areas in procurement will be malls, department stores and supermarkets
Arrested initiatives
The total number of jobs needs platted by Sofofa considers initiatives that are now under construction and others that are about to run and totaling 903 works.
In the case of the proposed projects, workers demand amounts to 362 758 jobs. However, the figure drops to 277 359 by subtracting all investments that are currently stopped (stalled, postponed and waived) amounting a total of 39 projects.
According to Sofofa, projects that are in the above-mentioned situation reach U.S. $ 55 billion and, in most cases, face prosecution problems, legal uncertainty, lack of energy, climate regulation, among other obstacles.
Such initiatives would demand about 85 399 jobs, which is equivalent to 13% of the total allocation considered in the land.
“The proposed projects will demand as a whole half of the estimated employment in the coming years, therefore it is imperative that we develop all efforts to streamline and unlock the planned investments, “according to Sofofa.
The CNC and Sonami match the position of the industry. “It is essential to unlock the investments in order to continue creating employment opportunities and help the country to achieve development,” says Mewes.
Merino adds that last September the guild had platted a portfolio investment of U.S. $ 110 billion for the period 2012-2022. But are currently under review or projects amounting to U.S. $ 43,600 million have been postponed, ie 40% of the total.
“However, once it is realized that significant investment there will be created 110 000 new direct jobs in mining highly qualified,” he adds.
Source: EL Mercurio
