Three-quarters of the unemployed use traditional job search methods.
18 December 2013
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Only 4.6% of job seekers go through recruitment agencies. Higher education graduates prefer responding to advertisements and participating in competitions.
To find a job today, should one go through intermediary structures, or simply use classic methods, such as competitions, responding to advertisements, direct contact with employers, help from parents and family? There is no satisfactory answer to such a question. However, there is one observation: 74.4% of unemployed people use traditional job search methods such as "parents and family". If we add to this the proportions of unemployed people preferring to respond to advertisements (9.7%) and participating in competitions (7.5%), we can assume that there is not much left for recruitment agencies. According to the High Commission for Planning (HCP) survey on employment and unemployment (which provides these figures), recruitment firms are only solicited by 4.6% of all unemployed people.
These overall figures, however, hide differences depending on whether the job seeker is without a diploma, has a medium-level diploma, or a higher education diploma. For those without diplomas, the preferred method remains soliciting parents and family (49% of them), followed by direct contact with employers (42%). Within 1 or 2 points, the same choices are found, in the same proportions, for unemployed people with an average level of education. Unemployed people with higher education levels, on the other hand, and this seems logical, have, in order, a preference for responding to advertisements (for 30% of them), competitions (25.4%), and direct contact with employers (17.2%). Finally, recruitment firms are only solicited by 0.6% of unemployed people without diplomas, 1.6% of those with a medium level diploma, and 14% of those with higher education diplomas.
In France, "relationships" are responsible for a third of new hires
In France, for example (but this is not a comparison with that country), intermediary structures contribute to 30% of recruitments. Public intermediaries alone contribute 18.6%. Responses to advertisements are the source of 12% of recruitments and "spontaneous applications" of nearly 25%. And contrary to what one might believe, in France, recruitment by "relationship" is responsible for 33% of new hires, according to a report on intermediation in the French labor market, written for the European Congress of Labor Law and Social Security, organized in Seville in September 2011. So, everyone manages as best they can...
In the case of Morocco, the HCP does not specify in its survey the public or private nature of recruitment agencies. This suggests that the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills (ANAPEC) is included, alongside private firms (see box), in the observation that job seekers are very little interested in them (4.6% of them).
But then, how can we explain that ANAPEC, according to its leaders, receives an average of 160,000 job applications per year, over recent years (compared to around 50,000 in 2004), which corresponds to about 16% of the unemployed population, a figure much higher than the 4.6% of unemployed people soliciting an intermediary structure? It even placed 55,000 candidates in 2012.
In fact, the agency is not just a recruitment firm, in the common sense of the term, it is also a public service that manages the government's employment promotion programs (integration contract, Taehil, self-employment, mainly). And the 160,000 applications it receives each year concern, for the most part, these public programs, which, as we know, benefit from state financial support and are open to applications meeting a number of conditions.
Outside this framework, ANAPEC also operates in the area of standard-law contracts, like any other private agency. And this is probably what the HCP survey on intermediation in employment is about.
Whatever the case, the employment intermediation market, particularly private agencies, should play a more dynamic role in hiring. In this regard, it should be remembered that even the International Labour Organization (the ILO, which can hardly be suspected of favoring the rules of liberalism) adopted a convention (No. 181) in which it recognized the role of private employment agencies in "the proper functioning of the labor market". And Morocco has ratified this convention.
44 authorized private recruitment agencies out of...a thousand in existence
Today, alongside ANAPEC, which is a public structure, there are 44 private recruitment agencies authorized by the Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, 30 of which are based in Casablanca. In fact, there are more than a thousand private entities operating in this sector. According to the law (the Labor Code in this case), the exercise of this activity requires obtaining authorization from the Ministry of Employment, which is only granted, among other things, by paying a deposit equivalent to 50 times the annual global value of the SMIG (article 482 of the Labor Code). This explains the reluctance of private firms to apply for authorization to operate. This is particularly the case for recruitment agencies which, unlike temporary employment agencies that are parties to the employment contract, simply connect job seekers and job offers. And as such, they do not see the interest in requiring them to provide financial security. This is a flaw in the Labor Code that will undoubtedly need to be corrected one day...
Salah Agueniou.
Lavieeco.com
Published on December 18, 2013.
Posted online on December 18, 2013.
To find a job today, should one go through intermediary structures, or simply use classic methods, such as competitions, responding to advertisements, direct contact with employers, help from parents and family? There is no satisfactory answer to such a question. However, there is one observation: 74.4% of unemployed people use traditional job search methods such as "parents and family". If we add to this the proportions of unemployed people preferring to respond to advertisements (9.7%) and participating in competitions (7.5%), we can assume that there is not much left for recruitment agencies. According to the High Commission for Planning (HCP) survey on employment and unemployment (which provides these figures), recruitment firms are only solicited by 4.6% of all unemployed people.
These overall figures, however, hide differences depending on whether the job seeker is without a diploma, has a medium-level diploma, or a higher education diploma. For those without diplomas, the preferred method remains soliciting parents and family (49% of them), followed by direct contact with employers (42%). Within 1 or 2 points, the same choices are found, in the same proportions, for unemployed people with an average level of education. Unemployed people with higher education levels, on the other hand, and this seems logical, have, in order, a preference for responding to advertisements (for 30% of them), competitions (25.4%), and direct contact with employers (17.2%). Finally, recruitment firms are only solicited by 0.6% of unemployed people without diplomas, 1.6% of those with a medium level diploma, and 14% of those with higher education diplomas.
In France, "relationships" are responsible for a third of new hires
In France, for example (but this is not a comparison with that country), intermediary structures contribute to 30% of recruitments. Public intermediaries alone contribute 18.6%. Responses to advertisements are the source of 12% of recruitments and "spontaneous applications" of nearly 25%. And contrary to what one might believe, in France, recruitment by "relationship" is responsible for 33% of new hires, according to a report on intermediation in the French labor market, written for the European Congress of Labor Law and Social Security, organized in Seville in September 2011. So, everyone manages as best they can...
In the case of Morocco, the HCP does not specify in its survey the public or private nature of recruitment agencies. This suggests that the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills (ANAPEC) is included, alongside private firms (see box), in the observation that job seekers are very little interested in them (4.6% of them).
But then, how can we explain that ANAPEC, according to its leaders, receives an average of 160,000 job applications per year, over recent years (compared to around 50,000 in 2004), which corresponds to about 16% of the unemployed population, a figure much higher than the 4.6% of unemployed people soliciting an intermediary structure? It even placed 55,000 candidates in 2012.
In fact, the agency is not just a recruitment firm, in the common sense of the term, it is also a public service that manages the government's employment promotion programs (integration contract, Taehil, self-employment, mainly). And the 160,000 applications it receives each year concern, for the most part, these public programs, which, as we know, benefit from state financial support and are open to applications meeting a number of conditions.
Outside this framework, ANAPEC also operates in the area of standard-law contracts, like any other private agency. And this is probably what the HCP survey on intermediation in employment is about.
Whatever the case, the employment intermediation market, particularly private agencies, should play a more dynamic role in hiring. In this regard, it should be remembered that even the International Labour Organization (the ILO, which can hardly be suspected of favoring the rules of liberalism) adopted a convention (No. 181) in which it recognized the role of private employment agencies in "the proper functioning of the labor market". And Morocco has ratified this convention.
44 authorized private recruitment agencies out of...a thousand in existence
Today, alongside ANAPEC, which is a public structure, there are 44 private recruitment agencies authorized by the Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, 30 of which are based in Casablanca. In fact, there are more than a thousand private entities operating in this sector. According to the law (the Labor Code in this case), the exercise of this activity requires obtaining authorization from the Ministry of Employment, which is only granted, among other things, by paying a deposit equivalent to 50 times the annual global value of the SMIG (article 482 of the Labor Code). This explains the reluctance of private firms to apply for authorization to operate. This is particularly the case for recruitment agencies which, unlike temporary employment agencies that are parties to the employment contract, simply connect job seekers and job offers. And as such, they do not see the interest in requiring them to provide financial security. This is a flaw in the Labor Code that will undoubtedly need to be corrected one day...
Salah Agueniou.
Lavieeco.com
Published on December 18, 2013.
Posted online on December 18, 2013.
