‘Job Missione Lavoro’, the new Rai programme designed to bring together businesses and jobseekers

From the company looking for beauticians to combat cellulite to the one in need of aerospace engineers. Around ten companies took part on Friday 2 October at Palazzo Wedekind, the institutional headquarters of INPS, in the presentation of Rai 2’s new programme ‘Job, Mission: Work”, which will be broadcast, under the patronage of INPS and the Ministry of Labour, from 10 October, every Saturday at 10.15 am, presented by Gabriella Carlucci and Adriana Volpe.

At the press conference, the companies met with jobseekers. A recruitment day open free of charge, by appointment, to jobseekers, which attracted a large turnout thanks to word of mouth on social media, with people hoping to be hired. Take Loredana, for example, who is hoping to find a job in interior design and read on Facebook that, on the day the programme was presented to the press, it was possible to have an interview with a company or a temporary employment agency.

And indeed, companies did not fail to turn up. The aviation and aerospace industry in Colleferro, Avio, is opening workers and engineers, preferably those falling within protected categories, whilst Marinobus, the competing ‘luxury’ version of Flexibus, is looking for drivers, as is Plantamura Logistics and Transport. There were also many temporary employment agencies present in the hall.

“We have a database containing over 40,000 CVs ,” explains Pasquale Pepe, business partner at “Yeswe Work”. “Our success rate in matching supply and demand is 80 per cent; we work with all companies except those in the shipping sector. We try to find jobs for everyone aged between 18 and 50, from waiters to CEOs. Naturally, we also provide training, receiving around 800,000 euros a year from Forma.temp”.

The programme also covers the tools made available by public bodies: calls for proposals, services, funding and opportunities for start-ups and training programmes. The Ministry of Labour’s Siisl and AppLi platforms are certainly a channel for matching supply and demand. INPS’s Central Director of Communications, Diego De Felice, endorses the programme’s philosophy: ‘INPS supports this format,’ he explained, ‘as it helps to boost employment. Today, under the contribution-based system, it is essential to start working and paying contributions as soon as possible. INPS is not just about pensions,’ he added, ‘but also about active labour market policy. With the Siisl portal, for example, we use artificial intelligence to match job and training opportunities with users’ CVs’.