GREEN JOBS

According to Unioncamere, 3.9 million new green workers will be needed in the next 5 years, with 65 percent of the skills required at the intermediate level and 41 percent at the high level of the entire projected employment need.

ITALY ALREADY NEEDS 16,000 DRIVERS 

These are also figures for the public passenger transport sector. In fact, the need for new bus, streetcar, metro and trolleybus drivers, again according to the most recent data from Unioncamere, is almost 16 thousand, both in public and private transport.
Although the current market sees an overwhelming prevalence of male drivers (96.4 percent), the demand for new hires (and hires) is much more equal such that for 79.7 percent both men and women would do well. But finding new drivers or female drivers is not so easy. The difficulty of finding for this figure has been calculated by Unioncamere to be 63%, that is, on average difficult.
A trend that is not only Italian: the recent report of the IRU, the International Road Transport Union, reveals, in fact, that 105,000 driver positions are missing in Europe and a shortage is expected to reach 275,000 positions to be filled within five years.

NEW GREENER DRIVERS 

Public transportation is essential to achieving net zero emissions goals. On average, traveling by private car results in up to 80 percent more CO2 emissions per kilometer than using buses and coaches. Therefore, internationally, abandoning the private car in favor of public transportation is already a sustainable best practice. What's more, driving skills and attention are now required at all stages of the transportation system to improve one's environmental performance. And that is why among the skills required of new drivers and drivers, green ones, immediately flexibility and adaptability, are the most in demand.
According to Unioncamere surveys, green skills are explicitly requested by companies in the sector in 81 percent of cases, with an importance that is considered medium-high and high for more than 40 percent of current driver applications.