the funeral industry is recruiting

It’s Friday, November 1st… It’s All Saints’ Day, an opportunity to focus on a sector of the future, that of funerals. Funeral advisor, embalmer, master of ceremonies… These professions are increasingly sought after to meet growing demand. The sector already employs nearly 22,000 people, and it is looking to recruit. With attractive salaries, most often on a permanent basis.

The particularly sought-after funeral advisor

France has nearly 4,000 funeral service companies. And they are looking to hire: 2,500 jobs are to be filled in France, often for funeral advisor positions. Accompanying families during a disappearance, the mission is not easy, so recruitment is demanding, explains Clémentine Piazza, who chairs the InMemori funeral directors and wishes to recruit around fifty people for this position.

“The three qualities of a funeral advisor are listening, empathy and commitment. Listening to truly understand the wishes of families. Empathy, to welcome emotions. And then commitment because this is what families deserve”, she underlines at the microphone of Europe 1. To attract candidates, she does not hesitate to offer a salary which is around 2,900 euros net per month, it is 30% above the sector average.

The aging of baby boomers

And job offers like these are likely to increase in number in the coming years. This, for simple demographic reasons, explains Guillaume Fontaine, president of the National Funeral Federation. “The population that we called baby boomers will be people who will be 80 years old next year. And so we will arrive in an age group where there has been a higher birth rate, so we is going to enter a cycle where we are going to have more deaths,” he confides.

In addition to attractive salaries, the sector also offers stable jobs: more than 9 out of 10 employees are on permanent contracts.