The latest report from SEPE reveals that Córdoba struggles to fill positions such as agricultural workers, waiters, and welders, despite these being occupations with high hiring rates.
The labour market in Córdoba faces a persistent mismatch: there are jobs that companies need to fill, but they cannot find enough candidates or those with the right profile. This is reflected in the latest provincial labour market report from SEPE, which identifies a series of occupations where the supply of job seekers is clearly insufficient.
Among the positions with the greatest mismatch are agricultural workers, employed waiters, operators of mobile agricultural machinery, farm workers, administrative staff with public-facing roles, composers, musicians, and singers, cleaning staff, food processing machine operators, various tradespeople, and security guards qualified to carry firearms. The list includes both traditional jobs and more specific profiles.
The report distinguishes two main groups. The first groups jobs that may be unattractive due to their conditions: physical demands, hours, temporality, wages, or seasonality. This includes agricultural workers, waiters, or cleaning staff, occupations that are significant in the province but do not always find enough people willing to perform them.
The second group consists of jobs that require specific qualifications: training, experience, professional licenses, or specific certifications. This is the case for security guards, machinery operators, welders, or cutters. In these cases, the issue is not that the position is unappealing, but that there are no candidates who meet the necessary conditions.
The situation in the capital helps to understand the paradox. In Córdoba city, the occupations with the most registered contracts in 2025 were employed waiters, cleaning staff, agricultural workers (with 6,759 contracts), shop and warehouse salespeople, and manufacturing industry workers. Several of the positions where SEPE detects a shortage of job seekers are simultaneously those that generate the most hiring. The problem is that this hiring does not always correspond with a sufficient supply of available people.
The lack of workers does not only affect highly qualified positions. It also impacts traditional occupations in the Córdoba market. The mismatch does not always stem from a lack of unemployed individuals, but rather from those seeking work not wanting, being unable, or not being trained to take on those specific roles.
For readers interested in the labour market, this data indicates where there are real employment opportunities, although often with conditions that could be improved. It also highlights the need for specific training in trades such as welding, cutting, or operating agricultural machinery, where demand exceeds the supply of qualified candidates.
The SEPE report does not offer solutions, but it does provide a clear picture of the mismatches. The lingering question is whether active employment policies and vocational training will succeed in bridging the gap between what companies need and what workers offer.
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