There is a deficit of 200,000 technicians

Despite the fact that in the country adequate employment and economic recovery They have not yet taken off, there is a deficit of thousands of technicians. Senati’s academic manager, Jorge Chávez, stated that said deficit amounts to 200,000 people.

The demand that is most required, he specified, is related to positions related to industrial technologies such as maintenance mechanics, industrial electricians, etc.

“On the information technology side, the demand for information security, computer science, software engineering and digital graphic design professionals has grown,” he added, and assured that now companies are looking for people who have “more technical knowledge advancing ”.

For her part, the academic director of Toulouse Lautrec, Karen Stiegler, pointed out that creative profiles are also being sought to fill positions in SEO, community management, animation, video game, web and application design, among others.

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“Likewise, all those super-specialized technical careers that use artificial intelligence, virtual reality and the Internet of things on the one hand. And, on the other hand, careers related to big data and analytics, business intelligence, and everything that is data science are highly valued at this time”, he indicated.

Meanwhile, the general director of the Certus institute, Guillermo Sánchez, commented that “due to the effect of the pandemic” the most demanded is related to technology.

Within these technical careers, he specified that those related to programming are the most required. This taking into account that during the health crisis, companies even had to change their way of working.

For his part, the general academic director of Cibertec, Jaime Tamashiro, indicated that there are careers in which male students used to predominate and today there is an increase in women. An example of this is automotive mechatronics and heavy machinery mechanics. The same thing happens in digital animation.

“Technicians are required in the industry. The country needs these technicians, and we are betting on covering those deficits that exist, ”he highlighted.

FACT

The Occupational Demand Survey indicated that this year there will be a demand for 348,880 new jobs that will be required in private companies.