Recruitment difficulties facing companies in France

On October 27, 2026, the director general of France Travail points out that 44% of companies are facing major recruitment difficulties despite rising unemployment. At the end of October, the public transport sector says it needs 100,000 recruits by 2030, while an employment agency network is adapting its job interviews. In early November, direct recruitment operations and forums are being organized in the agrifood sector in Cambrai, in the Laon basin and in Troyes, and job dating or promotional actions are planned in industry in Lillebonne and via « Forindustrie ». Recruiters are also facing Generation Z's expectations, and a thirty-year-old gives up on finding a work-study program after 1,093 applications. A study mentions the cost of a bad hire, then a business owner denounces competition from France Travail in hiring.