Do you have to choose career? We'll tell you which have the least unemployment

Worry, lots of worry arrives along with the good weather in May. Students who have completed Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) have to choose between studying High School, Advanced Vocational Training or Intermediate Vocational Training. Moreover, those who are studying the final year of High School are faced with two daunting tasks: entrance exams to college and choosing a career.

Currently, 93% of the students appear very concerned about their professional future, according to a report by the Madrid Chamber of Commerce and the Foundation University-Enterprise. In relative terms, this has increased by 20 points in respect to the percentage universities declared in May of last year. In addition, six out of ten young people believe they will find it fairly difficult or very difficult to find a job with sufficient income to live. 

This concern, which is more pronounced among women, students of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law and also in university students from the Northwest, Canary Islands and Southern Spain, is joined by a new urgency to enter the labor market. So say 82% of respondents in May 2009, while in May last year the figure was 61%. This urgency is particularly marked among the students of Humanities and Health Sciences, as well as those from Canary Islands, Southern and Central Spain.

In the same vein, while the possibility of developing their careers in fields related to their qualifications is the criterion of greater weight when assessing a job offer, only four out of six university students believe they will have the opportunity to do so. Among the most optimistic are students and graduates in Health Sciences and Technical Education. 

These prospects are not rosy, but there is still room for optimism. According to the report prepared by infoempleo.com, in month of April companies demanded more university graduates than those with Advanced Vocational Training (taking into account job offers that require a degree). Namely 76.06% versus 23.94% respectively.  

Within the total bid to graduates, according infoempleo.com, those most in demand in April were Business Administration, with 7.43% of the bids, followed by Engineering with 7.06 %, Economics with 6.40%, Industrial Engineering with 4.86% and Medicine and Nursing.

As for the fields of Advanced Vocational Training most in demand, they were electricity and electronics, with 27.40%, mechanical engineering, with 25.11%, Maintenance and production services, with 11.19%, Management, 10.27% and I.T, 8.68%.  

It follows that the university students linked to Humanities and Arts Education have few job offers. In the Advanced Vocational Training branch, its alter ego is Plastic Arts and Design.

Jobs most difficult to fill 

Each quarter, INEM also publishes a list of jobs that are difficult to fill. Optical, medical, dental, croupiers and pastors are some of the occupations with the highest job vacancy.

So anything related to Experimental Sciences and Health Care has a great future. For example, the medical profession, in all specialties, is one of the vacancies most offered in virtually all communities. For some years now, we have witnessed a "flight" of medical graduates into the United Kingdom and France in particular. Spanish doctors, with a high standard of training thanks to Medical Residency Training (MIR), are tempted there by better pay and working conditions. 

Opticians, optometrists and optical assistants, are another category that fills the INEM offer list. Furthermore, there is a lack of prosthetic dentistry and dental hygienists in most provinces of Spain. Welders or people who work cutting metals, panel beaters, mechanics of heavy machinery or vehicles and operators also have an important outlet. Especially now that many municipalities are already implementing the Government's investment plan, amounting to 8000 million and which translates into a multitude of infrastructure works.