The numbers speak for themselves. With 46,000 positions unfilled by 2025 and one million jobs to be filled by 2030, the challenge for French industry to recruit sufficient numbers of workers remains enormous.
What is meant is to combine two main parameters. On the one hand, this sector, which has been increasingly impacted by deindustrialization during the two decades from 1995 to 2025, continues to experience a decline in its image among the younger generation. This is often associated with the severity of the task and the pollution caused by the production process. “ The industry is also reluctant to communicate naturally about its strengthslaments Julien Noronha, executive director of communications at BPI France. This is especially true for women who are still underrepresented in engineering schools, where only 30% of women graduate. “.
