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Job Growth in UK soaring, leading to new skills shortage
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd8464aa-59b2-11e2-88a1-00144feab49a.html#ixzz2HVQvQH1XSkills shortages will worsen this year if employment growth continues to outstrip the sluggish economy, a leading recruitment body has warned.
“The developing story this year is likely to be one of skills shortages as people with expertise in key areas become harder and harder to source,” said Kevin Green, chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.
“We are already seeing this in areas like IT and engineering and recruiters are telling us that candidates are in short supply to fill jobs for drivers, chefs and carers.”
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Shock horror, firms may actually have to start training people themselves.0
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from the same agency...
http://www.rec.uk.com/press/news/2279
There wouldn't be a shortage of applicants in most areas of the UK for basic jobs...these vacancies must be in unusual locations....Engineering has long been calling out for students.. why does this happen..??...ask a student.0 -
Carers always experience high turnover it seems - I wonder why? Pay, hours and actual job?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0
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