Comparison of the demand for green competences in various industries

Purpose: Green competences are a more and more popular topic in academia.Researchers are trying to describe them in detail and connect them with the economical results of mostly business organizations.The EU approach also strengthens the concept by introducing the rules of non-financial reporting (ESG) obligation for SME from 2026.Design/methodology/approach: The goal of this study is to determine whether green competencies are a part of labour market demand and what are the differences between four selected industries: medical, creative, business and IT.The web-scraping allowed for quantitative analyses of the competence demand.Findings: Only in 1% of the job offers there is direct information on green competences.It is then justified to analyse the labour market based on pre-green competences such as communication, teamwork, openness, and creativity, thus those are the ones both strongly connected with the green competence theories and already widely introduced to the labour market. Research limitations/implications:The research is due to some limitations.First of all, it allowed for comparison only 4 industries.The industries were chosen based on their attractiveness in national intelligent specializations, but do not show the whole picture of a labour market.All the data was scrapped from the pracuj.plportal, which is mostly the source of job offers for specialist and middle management form business related industries.The last limitation worth mentioning is that the research is based on a quantitative approach.Originality/value: The surprising results of the lack of green competences in labour demand draws the gap between research and theoretical approach and the business demand.