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Still Haven’t Found What
I’m Looking For There’s a tendancy to think that because the economy is still recovering from a recession that there’s a never-ending supply of people looking for jobs. Certainly, almost every week we read in the newspaper about people being made redundant. In my experience over the last year or so, the problem has not been the number of potential candidates but rather the quality. The right people with the right skills have not been available at the right time. New Zealand has suffered from skills shortages for years. In fact, the problem is not confined to New Zealand; globally, there are skills in short supply and high demand. Earlier this month Manpower released the results of its global skills shortage survey. In it’s 5th year now, the survey found persistent talent shortages in many countries and industry sectors. Here’s their Top 10 list for New Zealand in 2010:
Larger companies often respond to the
skills shortage by cultivating what’s known
as “a pool of talent”. They invite
registrations of interest from highly
skilled people and build a long term
relationship with them so that when a
vacancy opens up they have a ready supply of
pre-qualified candidates to draw from. |
