After a 2.4% decline in 2020, turnover in the Apulian ICT sector is starting to grow again but, at the same time, it is having to deal with a long-standing problem: the great difficulty in recruiting professionals with digital skills.
Yet the IT market is a growing one, unfazed by crises, especially since the pandemic forced thousands of companies into an digital transformation . This is demonstrated by the figures released by several prominent national and international companies, including Exprivia (€167.8 million in revenue in 2020), Fincons (approaching €197 million thanks to 10% growth), Links spa (€52 million by 2021), and Openwork , with €1.8 million (up 10% from 2020). Openwork's CEO, Salvatore Latronico – and president of the Apulian IT Productive District – confirms that "there's a certain effervescence, the recovery is there."
However, it remains very difficult to find professionals in the sector, as Salvatore Latronico once again stated: "All companies are hiring, but paradoxically, the brake is on the shortage of IT graduates, new-generation systems engineers.
This situation is forcing companies to resort to internal academies to fill this severe shortage of human resources.
Source: IlSole24Ore
