A week to discover the industry in Aveyron and “break” its bad image

For thirteen years now, Aveyron and its economic and industrial players have been mobilizing to ensure the promotion of its professions among young people. With some success.
This year, on the occasion of Industry Week, which takes place from November 18 to 24, several dozen events and actions will be organized across the department, mobilizing nearly sixty business leaders. business. Around forty meetings are planned between them and college students.

“The idea is not to find the workforce for tomorrow but to discover all the richness of these professions that exist in local companies,” underline the president of the CCI, Dominique Costes, and Charles Giusti, prefect of Aveyron.

At the same time, the organizers of this event wanted to “break the image that sometimes sticks to the industry, even though it is a bearer of innovation, of the future”, argues the president of the CCI, while the The industry is increasingly integrating AI into its production, robotics, etc.

For Hervé Danton, general delegate of Mecanic Vallée which brings together more than 210 companies for nearly 12,000 jobs, and despite the difficulties looming for the sector, “our industry is particularly resilient”. “You just have to see how our young work-study students are already recruited by companies a few months before the end of their studies,” explains Hervé Danton. At worst, the sector risks straining a little, drying up the flow of applications a little, but the needs will always be there and they are very important. »

Immersion

Precisely, this Industry Week in Aveyron will also allow students to immerse themselves in the productive tool as close as possible to reality. For example, first and final year students from La Découverte high school in Decazeville will go to the Lisi Aerospace and Pattyn companies in Villefranche-de-Rouergue; 4th grade students from Fabre college in Rodez will visit the Bosch company in Onet-le-Château.

Dozens of visits will be organized during this week. The stakes are high because Aveyron “remains a more industrial department than the national and Occitanie average,” recalls Dominique Costes. And industry represents 21.2% of salaried jobs in Aveyron, the national average being 19%. » The industrial fabric of the department is essentially characterized by the presence of VSEs and SMEs which have the possibility of adapting to changes in demand. “This year again, recruitment remains the main concern for Aveyron companies,” continues Dominique Costes. It is also necessary to offer adapted training throughout the territory. On artificial intelligence, automation…”