The Secretary of Economic Development and Labor (Sefoet), Ernesto Herrera Novelo, spoke in an interview for Peninsular Punto Medio about the areas of opportunity that engineering and information technology careers have for Yucatecans in the labor sector, as well as the significant labor supply that exists in Yucatan, ranging from working in home office mode, to its wide range of labor inclusion.
He highlighted that this sector currently has 15 thousand workers registered with the Mexican Institute of Social Security (Imss), and that it is expected to increase by 7 thousand new jobs by 2023, as this is currently the number of vacancies.
How has this boosted employment growth?
Engineering and technology have added 15 thousand new jobs this year alone, that is why there is a growth in jobs, that is why the critical mass of the IMSs in the state has increased, because these jobs globally are the ones that pay the best.
What actions is the state taking so that more young people study these careers and how to increase the labor market for these jobs?
For example, Accentur in Valladolid opened an innovation center in the Tecnológico de Valladolid, now we are opening another one in Tekax in the southern region, and with this we already have 200 positions for each one and in Mérida there are 600, and they have just told us that they are going for 200 more in cybersecurity.
At the Polytechnic University of Yucatan there is already an engineering degree in Cybersecurity and we developed the curriculum together with them, so that the young people who are training with them can leave with a job.
Yesterday we were in Tizimín, we went to a Conalep because Webhelp’s customer service is very intensive and what we want is that the kids when they finish studying can fill those positions, but we need them to know English and be steeped in technology, that is why they will have a year to train and when they leave high school they can start working in these areas.
This is the strategy we have in conjunction with the state’s English agenda, because we have already seen that in the automotive, aerospace and information and communication technology sectors, there is a demand for people who are bilingual.
What was the biggest example of this?
The company Uchiyama was one of these, which is in Hunucmá, it is an automotive company that took the entire first generation of the Polytechnic University of Yucatán (UPY), from where they graduate speaking English and are engineers in Robotics, Mechatronics and Systems, but with the big difference that they leave speaking English; that is why the company established itself in Yucatán.
The first generation was trained in Japan and the United States, but they are all working in the company that was established in the state.
And do we have enough English-speaking personnel?
We have 25% of the population that speaks English, we are well above the national average and we want to go further, because we have seen that the market demands our profiles and the great success of this administration is to open the door to new companies and they tell us what they need, that is why we are incorporating these careers in the schools and in this case, the schools are reacting very quickly,
Anáhuac, Marista and Modelo have joined these systems, but we are also looking for public schools to have these opportunities, that is why we have invested in workshops and laboratories for design, innovation, cybersecurity, etc., because private schools do not have the number of people graduating that are needed to fill the positions, that is why we need public schools to have the tools to fill these economic positions, that is why we bring companies, so that Yucatecans can stay and work in the state.
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