The objective of the Mayotte Recruitment 2024 Show was achieved: nearly 500 visitors attended the event. Its director, Namour Zidini, thinks that this will most likely lead to future recruitments. “Companies in Mayotte have major recruitment needs, but are looking for candidates with specific profiles. This Fair made it possible to directly connect job seekers with recruitment managers within companies, allowing exchanges and discussions,” he explains. The event also took place online, allowing people not in the region, but planning to work in Mayotte soon, to participate and anticipate their job search.
The profile of the visitors reflected that of the population of Mayotte: around 70% of them were young people (high school students, students or without specific training), but there were also older people looking for a job or wishing to retrain professionally. Many refugees were also present to learn about professional opportunities in their new territory. “This show is a complementary event to the work carried out by France Travail, because here the exchanges were direct between companies and job seekers,” explains Namour Zidini.
Big recruitment needs, but a high unemployment rate: a paradox?
According to INSEE, Mayotte is the department of France most affected by unemployment (37%). However, public and private sector companies are struggling to recruit, which could constitute a paradox. However, this can be explained by a lack of training for many job seekers, or by too many training courses whose opportunities on the job market are saturated. “In Mayotte, there are very few qualified workers like plumbers or electricians. We finance saturated sectors like the secretariat, for example, while accounting, on the contrary, is not funded enough. Those who finance apprenticeships and professional training are not attentive to the needs of businesses,” declared Bourahima Ali Ousseni, president of the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME), on the set of our colleagues in Mayotte the First.
The other explanation of this paradox could also be what we could call, in
expanding the exact definition of the term, “brain drain”. A large number of Mayotte students continue their studies in mainland France or in Reunion and end up settling there permanently, few of them returning to Mayotte. Too few qualified job seekers, corresponding to the needs of businesses, unfortunately remain on the island. A lot of work on attractiveness is therefore necessary. A complex task given the insecurity problems that Mayotte has been experiencing for many years now.
However, it is sometimes simply ignorance of possible work opportunities that prevents job seekers with an interesting profile for companies from finding a job. This is therefore a communication problem that this Recruitment Fair aimed to help resolve last Friday and Saturday. “The event led to many recruitment certainties thanks to the meetings that took place. The figures will be revealed online very soon,” concludes Namour Zidini.
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