The youth unemployment rate is 28.8% today, but there are still some employers who are desperate to recruit young people. Schools that offer modules that are guaranteed work do not meet their schools. On the other hand, there are young people who want to sign up for in-demand professions, and those who do not find leverage. And conversely, more and more schools are opening up for professions already filled.

 

They seem like meaningless statements, but the solution is not so simple. For example, according to teachers, some of the reasons are the lack of attunement between school and business, the lack of speed of administration in detecting and creating new professional profiles, or the undercutting of human studies in university career paths.

 

Clocks, optics technicians, computer scientists, mechanics and bodybuilders specializing in the handling of big biology data, workers, electricians, transport and logistics specialists capable of speeding up and saving on e-commerce management, technicians in 3D printers, etc. they are long gone.

 

Another reason is that the cycles of high employment penetration and decent pay guaranteed by families are not generally known by families, and so companies have to hire outsiders. "The need for hospitals and research centers is becoming more and more accessible to computer scientists with knowledge of biology," says Ana Ripoll, President of Bioinformatics Barcelona (BIB). Bioinformatics cycles are adjustments to existing qualifications and are only given in two institutes (EU Gimbernat, San Cugat del Vallès, and IES Provençana, Hospitalet de Llobregat). The first promotion is fully incorporated into the labor market with a gross salary of 22,000 to 24,000 euros. However, only 50% of the 60 students who started the specialty completed their studies due to the educational requirement.

 

Institut Bonanova, the national benchmark in the family health cycle, is considering opening up education in this line. "We see a large area in computing, electromedicine," explains Montse Blanes, director of the aforementioned public institute. Demand for institutions is often not evident, according to her, but if it is. 3D printers in the oncology department of hospitals are visited by doctors of other specialties, who see that they can benefit from this technology. "LH cannot work outside the world of work," Blanes believes. "In dual-type VET, center and company education, we are seeing the importance of sharing curricula, viewing needs and making treaties."

 

There are some parents out there who think they are failing at school. They believe that their children will end up as industrial workers, in dirty and noisy places, and that their pay and living placement will be lower than they will ever get.

 

But 4.0 is a clean, silent, robotic industry. Salaries range from $ 1,800 to $ 2,000 a month, with the option of traveling and earning extra, says Vicenç Guerrero from Institut Palau Ausit. “Demand for qualified personnel for maintenance and electromechanics triples the offer, but being an electrician is not as media-savvy as a personal trainer or chef. And the theme of the girls is a drama in these grades: we have a four-year-old female student, ”says Guerrero.

 

"Many students end up studying at the university because of pressure from their parents, despite their desire to be educated in a specific job," believes Pilar Godinez from the Institut Joan Brossa, where very demanding transport and logistics cycles are given. "In my opinion, a hybrid baccalaureate should be opened, where students can consider their professional experience as a real opportunity to close university doors." Thus, in some cycles, such as the IES Joan Brossan, 50% of the students enroll at UPC. "These students come in with validated subjects, earning a salary, because optics give them work," says Godinez, explaining that students also go the other way and that there are graduates who are studying for an LH.

 

Lourdes González is the director of IES Mercé and he puts a contradiction on the table, that there are few students despite the high demand for work - this is the case of the middle-grade body, where people do not register or even watch, with few places - high demand and work - against small outputs - image and sound family, for example, national benchmark, in which the center has 50 places and 200 requirements.

 

However, in some cycles, especially in the middle grades, students "arrive with very low basic competencies, exceeding in extremis, which means that not only high school must be rethought, but also ESO," Blanes suggests.