Over a thousand registrations for interviews, 120 companies present, 1,500 Calabrian students involved and more than a thousand profiles sought. These are the numbers of Career Day 2026, an initiative promoted by Unindustria Calabria with the aim of aligning job supply and demand.
The comparison on work and training
The theme of employment mismatch and technical and university training was at the center of the morning talk, which saw the participation of national and regional institutional representatives.
Opening the proceedings was the president of Unindustria Calabria, Aldo Ferrara, who underlined the “satisfaction in seeing so many companies connect and discuss with so many young people. This was precisely the objective: to create a bridge between young people and businesses. The destinies of the region are inextricably linked to the fortunes of our economy, but the successes of the economy are linked to the valorisation of young people. The project is only at the beginning and we want to take it to the end and cultivate it”.
The positions of the institutions
“It is a way to bring together supply and demand for work and show that another Calabria is possible, capable of producing work – said the president of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto -. The credit should be attributed above all to the entrepreneurs who have understood that it is possible to do business in Calabria and also to the young people who with initiatives of this kind can find greater reasons to choose to stay”.
For the Undersecretary of the Interior Wanda Ferro, “it is a useful day to direct training towards the job profiles most in demand on the market. The study published by the Tagliacarne institute speaks of a +3.1% of employment in Calabria which means that we are growing more than many other Italian regions, we must continue in this wake with orientation and professionalisation”.
“The Confindustria survey on work confirms that in the South almost one in two companies encounter difficulties in finding staff. We are not faced with a shortage of work, but a lack of adequate skills, especially technical, digital and specialist skills” highlighted Natale Mazzuca, vice-president of Confindustria for strategic policies for the development of the South. “Calabria is not a territory devoid of opportunities, but a territory in which demand and skills are not always able to meet”.