54% of Business on the Dominican Republic claims to have difficulty in hiring personnel with a qualified profile.
Faced with this reality, the business community has had to resort to two possible alternatives such as hiring overqualified personnel and training the personnel after hiring. According to 38% of Business surveyed, they invest more than 100,000 pesos in staff training per year for their leveling.
The data is reflected in the results of the study “Human talent training in the face of the current and future demand of the Dominican Republic: Focus on Career and College Technical Programs,” presented today by the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE).
Another result is that five of the university courses The most demanded are those with the lowest salary growth and only 3% of Dominicans are enrolled in areas of higher technical education.
In addition, the study collects important findings that show that, for the country, it becomes urgent to refocus higher education towards skills and competencies that are consistent with the current and future demands of the productive sectors.
The investigation carried out by ANJE showed that concrete answers are required to transform the system, since 45% of the enrollment is concentrated in five careers such as: Education, Psychology, Accounting, Medicine and Law, which present the lowest salary growth.
Likewise, only 12% of university enrollment is in the careers with the highest salary level and employability, corresponding mostly to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM, for its acronym in English) and Languages, despite the fact that Higher technical qualifications are one of the top five careers most in demand in the future.
The document indicates that, of the Business surveyed in the Dominican Republiconly 3% are enrolled in higher technical education areas and it is the sector with the lowest public investment in the system.
“With this input, from the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs we provide an instrument that serves for the efficient articulation of public policies, with the firm purpose of guaranteeing the development of our young people in the labor market,” said Luis Manuel Pellerano, president of ANJEduring a meeting in which the results were presented.
Also contribute to strengthening the academic offer, according to the required skills.
He assured that the business community is involved and, together with the public sector, “we are working hard, with the purpose of generating the changes that the country needs to grow sustainably and maintain our socioeconomic development.”
“The association has the firm conviction that, based on this study and joining efforts, we will establish the foundations of a quality educational system, capable of training a competitive and committed workforce, which will become that differentiating element in the way of national prosperity,” he said.
