According to Pôle Emploi, there are 540,000 vacancies in the supply chain between now and 2022, but the sector remains little-known among young people, who are unaware of the opportunities and, more broadly, the professions in this fast-growing field.
Too often reduced to transport or warehouses, the Supply Chain is however much broader. It is necessary to call on a large number of skills to have a complete overview of the activities of this sector which recruits at all levels of study.
While there are specialized training courses for the different Supply Chain professions, you can also join the sector following more general training courses at universities as well as business or engineering schools.
But how can we attract young people to these professions and fields of study? How can we encourage vocations for professions that we don't know about, even though they might be right for us? This is the challenge of a sector that is undergoing rapid change and brings great opportunities.
Did you say Supply Chain?
If you work in the supply chain, you will agree that the term is not often known or understood. This is one of the sectors that the general public is less familiar with, and in which it is more difficult to project yourself. You may find it hard to explain your job to the people around you, so just imagine what an uninformed young person might understand behind this unusual term!
It is therefore necessary to better inform students about a key sector of our economy, to show them the development and employment opportunities it offers.
A sector where few young people are aware of the opportunities
The opportunities in Supply are numerous. The emergence of e-commerce, the modernization of processes and environmental challenges highlight a wide diversity of activities, as detailed in the map below produced by ASLOG.
Environmental and societal challenges are all the more relevant to the expectations of new generations who are looking for meaning in their future jobs.
Indeed, the Supply Chain is at the heart of sustainable development issues. In an increasingly complicated ecological context, a precise question grips the field: how to rebuild the Supply Chain in accordance with the societal and environmental responsibilities expected by consumers and investors?
New technologies are revolutionizing the field of Supply Chain, which is seeing its operating model evolve from a reactive logic to a proactive and even, in certain cases, predictive logic. Today, more than ever, we need to ask ourselves how to best use and deal with artificial intelligence, improving human capabilities without exceeding them.
Finally, the question of e-commerce arises, this new way of consuming which necessarily impacts the Supply Chain. How can we produce, store and deliver products that are no longer consumed in the same way today as ten years ago? This is the technological challenge of the Supply Chain in relation to the next generations.
Your involvement is essential
The best way to twist a cliché is to provide concrete information from the field. This can only happen through the involvement of everyone, through the sharing of experiences to create vocations and best support our young people towards training and then careers in the Supply Chain.
If more supply chain professionals in both specialist and generalist courses could be in contact with young people to highlight the wealth of careers in the sector and the opportunities they offer, we could reverse the trend. But how can we do this? How can we gain access to young people and ensure that these exchanges are possible?
Companies have been highlighting their professions on forums for a long time, but this often involves discussions with HR and operational staff are rarely present. So what is the chance for a student potentially interested in Supply Chain to meet the right Ambassador who will talk to them about the profession?
In the age of HR 3.0, the student-employer relationship becomes essential and must be streamlined to allow each party to meet its expectations and objectives.
My Job Glasses was created 3 years ago in response to this problem.
We have the solution to allow you to simply and effectively share your experience to create vocations and recruit the right candidates when the time comes.
To go further in the student-business relationship, we have created a dating site to allow young people to discover careers by interacting directly with professionals in companies.
You can now represent your profession and share the reality of your daily life with students from more than 120 schools and universities who, in a school setting, must find out about the different missions they could carry out. A very suitable way to bring out Supply Chain professions and present them informally with the many opportunities in the sector.
This is what does for example Elizabeth, Flow Pilot at Point P, who contributes to the creation of numerous vocations and participates directly in the identification of talents who will join the ranks of the Supply Chain tomorrow.
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