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Canada’s Skills Gap / 88% of respondents ready to acquire new skills and 38% ready to relocate Hays finds
Canadian workers are beginning to respond to Canada’s well-known and continually growing talent shortage and skills mismatch by retraining themselves for in-demands jobs Continue reading
Canada’s Job Market / A virtual hotbed of contradictions
On the one hand, employers and their associations claim there is a labour shortage. Yet 1.3 million workers are officially unemployed Continue reading
UK / 13.5 million job vacancies, but only 7 million school and college leavers
During the next decade, there will be 13.5 million job vacancies in the UK, but only 7 million school and college leavers – leaving a gap that immigration cannot plug Continue reading
US / Labor Surplus, Labor Shortage, and the Skills Gap
US Job Market has two significant problems — a labor surplus and a labor shortage. High unemployment and a lack of job opportunity for young people – the surplus; employers who can’t find the highly skilled workforce needed – the shortage Continue reading
US / Labor Shortages Could Constrain Housing Growth says Fitch
Labor shortages in the homebuilding industry could constrain new housing growth during the recovery, according to Fitch Ratings Continue reading
Wisconsin / The Skills Gap Myth: only a few occupations may see a skills shortage in coming years find
Researchers say Wisconsin has more educated workers than jobs A second economic study shows that Wisconsin’s sluggish economy isn’t being plagued by a skills gap between job openings and job seekers. The team of researchers from UW-Madison, working on behalf of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Legislative Council, found that “only a few occupations may see a … Continue reading
Canada / Is the widespread assumption that Canada is suffering from a growing shortage of labour true?
“When the Royal Bank of Canada was recently caught up in a maelstrom of bad publicity over its use of temporary foreign workers, it led politicians and pundits to scrutinize and question the growing use by Canadian firms of imported, short-term labour” Kevin McQuillan in ALL THE WORKERS WE NEED: DEBUNKING CANADA’S LABOUR- SHORTAGE FALLACY (Adapted … Continue reading
China / Skills Gap in logistics
Employers in China face such a severe shortage of logistics staff that one British company is offering work to 20% more candidates than it has jobs. Paul Brooks, sales director of Unipart Logistics, said that the company regularly offered employment to between 10% and 20% more candidates than it had jobs because they knew that … Continue reading
US Skills Gap / Builders can’t find enough qualified workers
U.S. builders and the subcontractors they depend on are struggling to hire fast enough to meet rising demand for new homes. Builders would be starting work on more homes — and contributing more to the economy — if they could fill more job openings. In the meantime, workers in the right locations with the right … Continue reading
Germany / Shortage of skilled labour is one of employers biggest problems
“It is getting very difficult to find qualified people,” says Mr. Traublinger, whose family company employs 150 people besides Mr. Henares. “Unemployment is so low – there just aren’t the qualified people on the market. Everyone wants to hold on to the people they have.” Even amid the euro zone debt crisis, German employers say … Continue reading
US Labor Shortages / There’s only one problem with this story: It’s mostly fiction
Are we missing a couple million jobs? These would be jobs that exist but lack workers to fill them. The notion that the recovery is being hobbled by too few skilled workers is seductive. It might explain today’s stubbornly high unemployment and why aggressive government policies to promote recovery have been so ineffective. Low interest … Continue reading
Businesses around the world are reporting a skills shortage epidemic finds Grant Thornton
Businesses around the world are reporting a skills shortage epidemic that is weighing on growth prospects, according to new research from the Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR). Almost four in ten (39%) businesses around the world are struggling to recruit the right people, with a lack of technical skills cited as the primary problem … Continue reading
US / There is no shortage of STEM workers says the Economic Policy Institute
In a new EPI paper, Hal Salzman of Rutgers, Daniel Kuehn of American University and B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University find little evidence to support expansion of high-skill guestworker programs as proposed in the immigration bill being debated in the Senate. Contrary to many industry claims, the study finds that U.S. colleges and universities … Continue reading
China | Skill Gap | A structural problem
Because of the slowdowns in both the global and Chinese economies, the shortage of laborers has eased slightly, especially for export-oriented companies. “Although it is still not easy to recruit suitable workers, the situation now is much better than it was at the start of last year,” said Zhang Kuifeng, general manager of a Hangzhou-based … Continue reading
Australia | Skills Gap | Still Needing US Workers
There is a “healthy” number of apprentices in the construction industry of a “very high quality” in Australia, industry and training groups have assured, despite the fact the government announced plans to meet a skilled workers shortage earlier in the week. On Monday the Federal Skills Minister Chris Evans announced that the government will link … Continue reading
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