When asked about the country's unemployment figures, Loureiro said that the information and communication technology sector is in a "completely opposite situation".
"Today we are in 'negative unemployment', what do I mean? At the moment, according to a survey, we need 2500 people that we can't find, we don't have. There are 2,500 people who should be working in our sector that we cannot find in the country and many times what we have to do to be able to fulfil contracts we have in other parts of the world is to subcontract resources from other countries. Unfortunately we are not providing national work because we can't find the resources," he said in Interview 930.
For the president of Cuti, the problem is that if there is a call to hire people, they don't show up "because there aren't any and it's not so easy to retrain because you have to be prepared to work in these sectors".
"We have been insisting for years that citizens understand the importance of preparing themselves to work in this sector, especially young people. One of the things I always try to explain is that you have to be trained because those 2500 people we need are not programmers, they are often people who have to have at least two or three years of training in technological careers, and if they had experience it would be better, but there is still no problem. Many of our companies invest millions of dollars in training, in retraining, in trying to ensure that people are already working in productive teams within six months. One of the things we work hardest on is trying to convince young people," he added.
Loureiro believes that "my son the doctor" should mutate into "my son the engineer" and that the country should focus on training in the information and communication technology sector.
"Technology is going to come, the issue is do I want it to pass me by or do I want to be there and be active - a participant in building the future," he said.
For the engineer, immigrants are "a gigantic opportunity" for a sector "whose wonderful thing is that the variety of knowledge needed is very great" and it is necessary for each person to be able to carry out the task for which they were trained in "increasingly multicultural" teams.
"If someone told you that the world is going this way, it's a lie. There have been prospective studies that say 'how it's going to be' and it's like thinking I have a crystal ball, it's impossible. What is happening now is that there are several technologies that have emerged, very important ones, that are accelerating everything and when they converge they themselves make things accelerate much more," said Leonardo Loureiro.
Source: Radio Montecarlo
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