Spotlight Online for Career Services Professionals, June 23, 2010
Spotlight Online for Employment and Recruiting Professionals, June 23, 2010
Thirty-one percent of employers worldwide are having difficulty filling positions due to the lack of suitable talent available in their markets, according to recent survey results released by Manpower Inc. This result represents an increase of 1 percentage point over last year’s Talent Shortage Survey.
For the 2010 version of its Talent Shortage Survey, Manpower surveyed more than 35,000 employers across 36 countries and territories during the first quarter of 2010 to determine the impact of talent shortages on today’s labor markets.
Results showed that, although the current global economic situation has increased the number of overall job seekers in labor markets worldwide, there is still a notable talent shortage—not a shortage of candidates—in many countries and industry sectors.
Following are some of the survey results:
Employers having the most difficulty finding the right people to fill jobs are those in:
- Japan (76 percent)
- Brazil (64 percent)
- Argentina (53 percent)
- Singapore (53 percent)
- Poland (51 percent)
The talent shortage appears to be least problematic in:
- Ireland (4 percent)
- United Kingdom (9 percent)
- Norway (11 percent)
- United States (14 percent)
- Spain (15 percent)
Compared to 2009, employers reporting that talent shortages are considerably less pervasive are those in:
- Romania (down 26 percentage points)
- Taiwan (down 21 percentage points)
- South Africa (down 19 percentage points)
However, employers in other countries appear to be experiencing the reverse, reporting a notable increase in talent shortages, including those in:
- China (up 25 percentage points)
- Japan (up 21 percentage points)
- Guatemala (up 16 percentage points)
- Singapore (up 16 percentage points)
Read Manpower’s 2010 Talent Shortage Survey.