After a 2.4 percent decline in 2020, turnover in Apulia's ICT sector is starting to grow again but, at the same time, facing a problem that has been known for some time: the great difficulty in recruiting professionals with digital skills.
Yet that of IT is a booming market that knows no crisis, especially after the advent of the pandemic that has forced thousands of companies into an unprecedented rush to digitization; witness to this, in fact, are the numbers that have emerged from some prominent national and international companies among which we can include Exprivia (167.8 million revenues in 2020), Fincons (toward 197 million thanks to 10 percent growth) Links spa (52 million by 2021) and the same Openwork with 1.8 million (up 10 percent by 2020) whose CEO Salvatore Latronico-and president of the Apulian Information Technology Manufacturing District-confirms that "there is some effervescence going on, the recovery is there."
However, it continues with great difficulty to find professionals in the field, as stated once again by Salvatore Latronico: "All companies are hiring, but paradoxically the brake is in the shortage of graduates in IT disciplines, next-generation systems engineers."
A picture that forces companies to turn to in-house academies in order to fill this acute shortage of human resources.
Source: IlSole24Ore
