The three sectors that generate more employment, were technological, agricultural, pharmaceutical and legal. He emphasizes that the professionalization of employees has led Colombia to have a lot of weight in the economic world and regionally. However, he points out that the fact that many employees do not handle a second language, such as English, limits opportunities since it is necessary in almost all areas of a company.

On the other hand, due to the current conjuncture, the mining and oil sector are the profiles that have the most difficulties when it comes to finding employment at present. By 2018, something similar to what was the end of last year is expected, but taking into account, for example, that there are presidential elections and that the price of oil has begun to recover ground.

Therefore, stability is expected in these sectors and also better prospects in the tourism sector, since Colombia was chosen as one of the countries that must be visited this year.

OFFER AND DEMAND IN COLOMBIA IN THE LABOR FIELD

The new labor trends report of elempleo.com, corresponding to the second quarter of 2018, shows Business Administration as the career with the highest labor supply in Colombia, with nearly 6,600 opportunities on average per month, but also highlights that in the list of the first ten there are five engineering.

Systems engineering ranks second in the careers that offer more work in the country, with approximately 3,100 monthly offers. The podium is completed by another engineering, the industrial one, with 3,000 offers.

The other present engineering firms close the ranking of the first ten: Electronic Engineering (seventh place, with 1,300 offers), Telecommunications Engineering (eighth place, 1,250 offers) and Network and Telecommunications Engineering (tenth place, 1,050 offers).

Engineers respond to job offers with high activity, especially industrial. Last June, these professionals applied 722,888 times to vacancies available on our website.
In the consolidated applications, the list is also led by company managers, with more than 1,221,000 in June.

CHANGES IN COLOMBIA LABOUR POLICIES

 What would you change about policies labour in your city. 

I would like there to be a balance between young people and people over 40 years of age, to apply for a job, since nowadays there are politcas in companies to hire at certain ages, regardless of education or experience, just be in a Very small age range neither very young nor after 40 years old.    

                  According to a study carried out by ManpowerGroup in 2014 with surveys of employees of more than 300 companies, it was found that in the group of people over 40 years of age, of those who applied between one and five job offers, 57.1% did not receive a response

In addition, there were three main reasons why companies rejected the applications of people over 40: age (40%), being overqualified (20%) and lack of experience (16%). For these reasons, 38.3% of respondents over 40 years of age said they felt discriminated against by the companies' age policies.

Companies require professionals with a high capacity for change, adaptation and strategic thinking. However, according to the Manpower study, these aspects and conditions were observed as disadvantages and shortcomings in the hiring of people over 40 years.



With regard to personnel over 40 years of age, the advantages observed by employers in their hiring refer to experience, knowledge, responsibility and stability, aspects that are contrary to the young population. However, the power of adaptability to changes, health problems and difficulties in the management of technology, are located as the biggest disadvantages.