Over 100,000 private sector jobs available by the end of 2014
24 October 2013
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The ANAPEC surveyed around 5000 organized private companies, representative of the largest employing sectors. 61% of the expressed needs are concentrated in three regions: Greater Casablanca, Tangier-Tetouan, and Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer.
ANAPEC Morocco
Finding a job is now the number 1 concern, especially for young people, the segment of the population with the highest unemployment rates, including in some developed countries like France. This concern turns into anxiety when activity slows down, even leading to job losses. Morocco experienced this situation in 2012, for example, with net job creation not exceeding 1,000 positions. This means that job losses, probably due to the crisis, were extremely high: 126,000 positions lost out of 127,000 created, according to the High Commission for Planning (HCP) survey on the job market in 2012.
Given that the crisis is still affecting the world, and consequently Morocco, what are the job prospects for the next two years? Even if it is difficult for companies, particularly in today's context, to have visibility over longer or shorter terms, the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills (ANAPEC), in addition to its intermediation mission, has approached a sample to identify their human resources needs. The ANAPEC survey was conducted with a sample of around 5,000 companies in the organized private sector, representative of the largest employing sectors (following the Pareto principle that 80% of jobs are created by 20% of companies).
This survey is very recent; it was conducted in the spring of this year. Conclusion: over the next eighteen months, until the end of 2014, the surveyed companies declare having staffing needs amounting to slightly more than 100,000 people, or more than 33,000 people per semester on average.
It must be specified that these needs expressed at the time of the survey may later prove to be much greater or, conversely, less, depending on whether the economic situation and order books improve or not compared to the forecasts at the time (if HR managers of the surveyed companies, and companies in general, establish real recruitment forecasts).
What sectors are offering these jobs? Nearly 60% of the expressed needs come from three sectors, according to the ANAPEC survey. These are, in order of importance, hospitality/catering (22,731 jobs), automotive/aerospace (20,219 jobs), and offshoring/new information and communication technologies (14,933 positions). The rest is shared between construction, commerce, services, education, agri-food, finance, industry, etc.
Observation: if we set aside automotive/aerospace, which is part of Morocco's global trades and is undergoing rapid development, the bulk of recruitment, or more precisely the expressed recruitment needs, belongs to the tertiary sector. This is of course not new; it is a confirmation; tertiary activities account for approximately 55% of total added value since the beginning of the 2000s. There is therefore no change in the structure of the economy: the secondary sector, a large part of which consists of industrial activities, representing 28 to 29% of added value since at least 1998, and the primary sector (agriculture, fishing, aquaculture and related activities) fluctuating between 15% and 16%. Employment perfectly reflects this structure.
Tangier-Tetouan: strong employment dynamic around the automotive industry
What are the regional breakdowns of these recruitment intentions? Unsurprisingly, Greater Casablanca comes first with staffing needs amounting to almost 25,000 (exactly 24,885). Again, tertiary activities predominate: we find, in order, hospitality/catering (8,269 jobs), commerce (4,743 jobs), financial and insurance activities (3,350 positions), administrative and support services (2,851 positions), or 77.2% of expressed needs.
After Greater Casablanca, the Tangier-Tetouan region comes in second with expressed needs amounting to 19,917 jobs. Unlike Casablanca, the bulk of these needs are expressed by the manufacturing industry (10,920 jobs), with tourism (hospitality/catering) coming in second with 7,015 positions. The automotive industry and its equipment suppliers represent practically all industrial jobs. Moreover, the most sought-after job profiles are mainly assembly operators, wiring operators, production machine operators, maintenance technicians, skilled workers, paint operators, etc. In other words, the employment dynamic in this region is mainly created around the automotive industry and the equipment suppliers that complement it.
The third place in the regional distribution of recruitment intentions goes to Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer with 17,761 positions. Here, offshoring/NTIC has the highest expressed needs (7,296 jobs), followed by construction (2,654 positions), hospitality/catering (2,446 jobs), and then various services (2,034 positions). An employment configuration in line with...the identity of the region's capital, Rabat, an administrative city with a high concentration of services.
Then come Gharb-Chrarda-Beni Hssen, Fes-Boulmane, Sous-Massa-Draa, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz...Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate closing the ranks with only 508 expressed needs.
Finally, three regions alone account for 61% of the expressed needs, and three sectors channel 57% of these needs. This is a strong and double concentration, to which we can also add the predominance, in the expressed needs and even in the actual job offers, of very small enterprises (VSEs) in particular and SMEs in general (see box). The creation of a ministry dedicated to SMEs in the Benkirane II government seems quite relevant in this respect. As a reminder, 99% of Moroccan companies are made up of SMEs. This justifies that they are, for the most part, at the origin of job creation. However, based on ANAPEC statistics, one may wonder why it is VSEs that are the most active in terms of job offers. Is this due to the incentives granted by the state under the Idmaj (insertion contract) managed by ANAPEC? Would it be because these entities are constantly looking for employees due to high turnover that they experience because they do not keep their employees for too long? This is another dimension of the employment problem in Morocco...
The bulk of job offers come from VSEs
According to ANAPEC statistics, this time relating to actual job offers received, one observation stands out: the bulk of offers come from very small enterprises (VSEs). 51% of offers received in 2012 came from these VSEs. In second position, we find small businesses with 24% of job offers. The remaining offers, or 25%, come from medium-sized enterprises (8%) and probably medium to large enterprises (17%); ANAPEC did not specify the exact number of employees in this last category, only indicating that they have more than a hundred. But, roughly speaking, we can say that job offers are almost exclusively the work of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a predominance of VSEs, considering that the SME charter defines an SME as a company whose permanent workforce does not exceed 200 people (to stick only to the workforce variable). This observation, to be frank, is neither new nor specific to Morocco. In Europe, too, most of the employment is provided by SMEs (less than 250 employees in France, in addition to other variables relating to turnover and total assets).
Salah Agueniou.
Lavieeco.com
Published October 21, 2013.
Posted online October 24, 2013.
ANAPEC Morocco
Finding a job is now the number 1 concern, especially for young people, the segment of the population with the highest unemployment rates, including in some developed countries like France. This concern turns into anxiety when activity slows down, even leading to job losses. Morocco experienced this situation in 2012, for example, with net job creation not exceeding 1,000 positions. This means that job losses, probably due to the crisis, were extremely high: 126,000 positions lost out of 127,000 created, according to the High Commission for Planning (HCP) survey on the job market in 2012.
Given that the crisis is still affecting the world, and consequently Morocco, what are the job prospects for the next two years? Even if it is difficult for companies, particularly in today's context, to have visibility over longer or shorter terms, the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills (ANAPEC), in addition to its intermediation mission, has approached a sample to identify their human resources needs. The ANAPEC survey was conducted with a sample of around 5,000 companies in the organized private sector, representative of the largest employing sectors (following the Pareto principle that 80% of jobs are created by 20% of companies).
This survey is very recent; it was conducted in the spring of this year. Conclusion: over the next eighteen months, until the end of 2014, the surveyed companies declare having staffing needs amounting to slightly more than 100,000 people, or more than 33,000 people per semester on average.
It must be specified that these needs expressed at the time of the survey may later prove to be much greater or, conversely, less, depending on whether the economic situation and order books improve or not compared to the forecasts at the time (if HR managers of the surveyed companies, and companies in general, establish real recruitment forecasts).
What sectors are offering these jobs? Nearly 60% of the expressed needs come from three sectors, according to the ANAPEC survey. These are, in order of importance, hospitality/catering (22,731 jobs), automotive/aerospace (20,219 jobs), and offshoring/new information and communication technologies (14,933 positions). The rest is shared between construction, commerce, services, education, agri-food, finance, industry, etc.
Observation: if we set aside automotive/aerospace, which is part of Morocco's global trades and is undergoing rapid development, the bulk of recruitment, or more precisely the expressed recruitment needs, belongs to the tertiary sector. This is of course not new; it is a confirmation; tertiary activities account for approximately 55% of total added value since the beginning of the 2000s. There is therefore no change in the structure of the economy: the secondary sector, a large part of which consists of industrial activities, representing 28 to 29% of added value since at least 1998, and the primary sector (agriculture, fishing, aquaculture and related activities) fluctuating between 15% and 16%. Employment perfectly reflects this structure.
Tangier-Tetouan: strong employment dynamic around the automotive industry
What are the regional breakdowns of these recruitment intentions? Unsurprisingly, Greater Casablanca comes first with staffing needs amounting to almost 25,000 (exactly 24,885). Again, tertiary activities predominate: we find, in order, hospitality/catering (8,269 jobs), commerce (4,743 jobs), financial and insurance activities (3,350 positions), administrative and support services (2,851 positions), or 77.2% of expressed needs.
After Greater Casablanca, the Tangier-Tetouan region comes in second with expressed needs amounting to 19,917 jobs. Unlike Casablanca, the bulk of these needs are expressed by the manufacturing industry (10,920 jobs), with tourism (hospitality/catering) coming in second with 7,015 positions. The automotive industry and its equipment suppliers represent practically all industrial jobs. Moreover, the most sought-after job profiles are mainly assembly operators, wiring operators, production machine operators, maintenance technicians, skilled workers, paint operators, etc. In other words, the employment dynamic in this region is mainly created around the automotive industry and the equipment suppliers that complement it.
The third place in the regional distribution of recruitment intentions goes to Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer with 17,761 positions. Here, offshoring/NTIC has the highest expressed needs (7,296 jobs), followed by construction (2,654 positions), hospitality/catering (2,446 jobs), and then various services (2,034 positions). An employment configuration in line with...the identity of the region's capital, Rabat, an administrative city with a high concentration of services.
Then come Gharb-Chrarda-Beni Hssen, Fes-Boulmane, Sous-Massa-Draa, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz...Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate closing the ranks with only 508 expressed needs.
Finally, three regions alone account for 61% of the expressed needs, and three sectors channel 57% of these needs. This is a strong and double concentration, to which we can also add the predominance, in the expressed needs and even in the actual job offers, of very small enterprises (VSEs) in particular and SMEs in general (see box). The creation of a ministry dedicated to SMEs in the Benkirane II government seems quite relevant in this respect. As a reminder, 99% of Moroccan companies are made up of SMEs. This justifies that they are, for the most part, at the origin of job creation. However, based on ANAPEC statistics, one may wonder why it is VSEs that are the most active in terms of job offers. Is this due to the incentives granted by the state under the Idmaj (insertion contract) managed by ANAPEC? Would it be because these entities are constantly looking for employees due to high turnover that they experience because they do not keep their employees for too long? This is another dimension of the employment problem in Morocco...
The bulk of job offers come from VSEs
According to ANAPEC statistics, this time relating to actual job offers received, one observation stands out: the bulk of offers come from very small enterprises (VSEs). 51% of offers received in 2012 came from these VSEs. In second position, we find small businesses with 24% of job offers. The remaining offers, or 25%, come from medium-sized enterprises (8%) and probably medium to large enterprises (17%); ANAPEC did not specify the exact number of employees in this last category, only indicating that they have more than a hundred. But, roughly speaking, we can say that job offers are almost exclusively the work of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a predominance of VSEs, considering that the SME charter defines an SME as a company whose permanent workforce does not exceed 200 people (to stick only to the workforce variable). This observation, to be frank, is neither new nor specific to Morocco. In Europe, too, most of the employment is provided by SMEs (less than 250 employees in France, in addition to other variables relating to turnover and total assets).
Salah Agueniou.
Lavieeco.com
Published October 21, 2013.
Posted online October 24, 2013.
