Identifying Employment and Skills Needs Specific to Eco-Enterprises
Are you a public stakeholder looking to better understand the job creation potential and skills needs of eco-businesses? Are you a company wishing to improve your recruitment and training strategies? Are you interested in employment and skills issues in eco-activities?
In a context of rapid changes in the eco-business sector, which innovates, digitizes, and internationalizes, recruitment and skills management challenges are crucial for business leaders.
PEXE, together with its networks and public partners (Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, ADEME, DRIEETS, OPCO) work on identifying human resources and management needs of eco-businesses. The studies resulting from these partnerships have identified these needs as priorities for their development.
Methodological Challenges
PEXE’s expertise comes from the field. It is made up of companies from the ecological transition, energy, and circular economy sectors that created the association and give it its raison d’être. It acts for and with eco-businesses in all its areas of work. This is especially true in producing studies aimed at better understanding trends on employment and skills topics.
The role of PEXE is even more important because the identification of so-called “green” jobs is complicated. These overlap multiple sectors and cannot be directly identified by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), which must use a specific methodology based on identifying eco-products in the French Product Classification (CPF).
PEXE’s approach is therefore particularly valuable: the association brings together more than 6,000 eco-businesses through its networks. It can thus collect information directly from business leaders.
Studies
National Observatory of Eco-Businesses (from 2023)
PEXE, ADEME, ONEMEV
The national directory of eco-businesses gathers data on employment and skills trends. Companies fill out a questionnaire to register: part of the responses is not published but processed anonymously and in aggregate form. They are reported within the framework of the national observatory of eco-businesses, which finely characterizes the productive fabric of the sector.
Overview of Eco-Businesses in Île-de-France (from 2020)
PEXE, ADEME Île-de-France
Since 2017, PEXE has conducted a study to characterize the productive fabric of eco-businesses in the Île-de-France region using data collected from over 450 business leaders. Recruitment trends are analyzed and presented in infographics.
Discover the data: Overview of Eco-Businesses in Île-de-France | PEXE (ecoentreprises-france.fr)
Study “Employment and Skills in Small and Medium Eco-Activity Enterprises” (2020)
PEXE, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Ecological Transition, ADEME, territories engaged in Ecological Transition Contracts
The General Delegation for Employment and Vocational Training (DGEFP) of the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Integration signed with PEXE a Commitment for the development of employment and skills (EDEC) — a “National Framework Agreement for the development of employment and skills in the eco-activities sector.” This EDEC aims to
- Quantify and qualify the recruitment needs of eco-businesses;
- Evaluate changes in skills associated with jobs in eco-activities;
- Measure the level of knowledge by business leaders of HR, recruitment, and skills systems and identify their short-term support needs.
The study results are available on the platform Employment and Skills (ecoentreprises-france.fr).