An increasingly growing sector, that of Logistics, which innovates and renews itself day after day, requiring professionals who are able to keep up with the times and with the galloping evolution of an increasingly digitalized and computerized world.
And it is one of the latest research conducted by Randstad relating to the 5 years before 2018 to confirm this success. The Dutch multinational that deals with research, selection and training of human resources, among the most important employment agencies in the world with branches are present in 40 states, most of them in Europe, but also in Asia and North America, has disclosed data that speaks for itself:
the employed in the logistic functions of the economy amounted to 2,376,044 units, concentrated for over 40% in "Logistics as a service" (and for over 31% in "Industry" (over 731 thousand employees in the logistics supply chain). time trend, overall the number of employees increased by about 110 thousand units.
With regard to logistics linked to industry, in particular, there is a growth in the entire period of 3.65%, characterized by alternating trends in the individual years.
Furthermore, the research states that "the analysis of the contracts activated and terminated in the 2014-2018 period, relating to the Randstad sample of 54 Professional Skills, shows an increase in the volume of employment relationships, which respectively amounted to 1,783,598 activations and 1,670,906 terminations. In all the years the balance between the two types of shares is positive and overall in the period considered there is a positive balance equal to 784,784 contracts activated ".
Logistics: the challenge of digitalization
That of digitization of the Logistics sector is a disruptive and ongoing phenomenon, which ranges from robotization, all'Internet of Things to Cybersecurity. Also in the research conducted by Randstad we read "The new professions linked to the environmental challenge already exist and new technologies must be established, from biomedical to new materials. All professions need to be rethought, because all are undergoing change. Last but not least, with regard to logistics, the very topical issue of sustainability must be remembered, which is not only a problem of the environment and natural resources, but also involves the infrastructural heritage ".
New jobs are emerging, of experienced professionals in the management of import-export, with the responsibility of digital platforms and relationships with third parties.
The new professional figures interpret the challenge of digitization not only in terms of robotization, but also in the management and control of the supply chains up to the actual operational execution.
And the job market it requires experienced professionals, able to demonstrate that they have real skills to ride the unstoppable wave of change.
The new skills in the Logistics sector concern, for example, "the coding of information, the development of the blockchain to rationalize the administrative and accounting systems, the use of Big Data, or cybersecurity, all crucial for the quality and development of the logistics supply chains, require very important investments in human resources, at all levels, not to mention the infrastructures, the hardware systems, the new mobility systems, the enormous spaces opened by the technologies of sustainable mobility“.
Accademia del Lavoro is responding to this request with specific training courses and increasingly at the forefront of this professional sector that is driving the world economy.
