Sentences with phrase «reported skills shortages»

Katy Malia, automotive teacher and STEM ambassador at Gateshead College, said: «While STEM industries are the driving force of our economy, many companies in these sectors have reported skills shortages that need to be addressed now.

As a result of the current downturn, there has been a reduction in the number of people reporting a skills shortage in this years survey; 77 % of respondents say there is a skills shortage, whereas 93 % felt there was a skills shortage in 2008.

But many industries — particularly the technology sector — report a skills shortage.

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Despite demand, 60 % of contractors reported difficulty finding skilled workers in the third quarter of 2017 due to an ongoing skilled labor shortage.

The program, which was first designed to address a shortage of skilled labour in Canada, brought 100,000 workers to Canada in 2002, to more than 330,000 in 2013, the C.D. Howe Institute report said.

This is consistent with the recent strength in the labour market and with liaison, where reports of skill shortages remain widespread.

In particular, liaison reports suggest that the strength in activity in the resources and non-residential construction industries has intensified shortages of skilled workers, leading to solid increases in wages and sub-contractor rates in those industries.

The strength in the labour market is also apparent in liaison reports, which indicate strong demand for labour and shortages of skilled workers in a range of industries and sectors, from construction and engineering to accounting and information technology.

The Chamber of Commerce put out a report today — actually I can't find much in the way of background research on their web site — which points with alarm to labour and skills shortages, and calls for a less generous EI program to get -LSB-...]

The Chamber of Commerce put out a report today — actually I can't find much in the way of background research on their web site — which points with alarm to labour and skills shortages, and calls for a less generous EI program to get workers to move to the supposedly available jobs.

In response to these issues, the report focused on four potential strategies for addressing the skill shortages:

Cuts to the defence budget will leave critical skills shortages and weaken the military, according to a damning new report.

In its report the committee warns the recommendations made in the Pitt Review in response to last year's heavy summer flooding in England and Wales may not be able to be implemented unless the government addresses engineering skills shortages.

This 2011 report centres on the prevalence of skills shortages, how government policy such as tuition fee rises and removal of the Default Retirement Age will affect the workforce, recruitment practices of graduates and apprentices, and whether organisations are rewarding or making redundant their employees.

Ukip's poster campaign suggesting that builders are being forced out of work by immigrants was looking shakey today, after the building industry reported a widespread shortage of skilled workers.

This report highlights skills shortages in a number of areas across the UK workforce, from skilled senior care workers to ships» officers.

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Contemporary news reports suggest that the administration believed that a full work permit scheme would have been unnecessarily expensive and cumbersome to operate, and that immigrants would help fill some of the existing skills shortages, without impacting significantly on wages or the welfare state.

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The report aims to provide evidence - based advice on which shortages of skilled labour can sensibly be filled through immigration.

Respondents reported many reasons for believing a skill shortage exists or is imminent, but the reason most often cited was the difficulty — or the belief that there would soon be difficulty — recruiting young candidates with those skills.

A June 2011 McKinsey Global Institute report predicts that over the next 7 years, in the United States alone, there will be «a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts to analyze big data and make decisions based on their findings.»

Last year the British Chamber of Commerce released a study in which 75 % of businesses reported a shortage of digital skills in their employee base.

A recent Accenture study shows 75 % of manufacturers report a moderate to severe shortage of skilled workers.

CITB's Educating the Educator report suggests that an industry skills shortage could be further exacerbated as 35 % of careers advisers believe that construction is an unattractive career prospect for young people.

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A new report from social mobility charity Teach First shows that by 2022, the British economy will face a shortage of three million skilled workers.

Numerous national reports have suggested that we face serious workforce shortages for jobs requiring high - level science and mathematics skills.

Overall, U.S. colleges produce twice the number of STEM graduates annually as find jobs in those fields... Claiming there is a skills shortage by denying the strength of the U.S. STEM workforce supply is possible only by ignoring the most obvious and direct evidence and obscuring the issue with statistical smokescreens — especially when the Census Bureau reports that only about one in four STEM bachelor's degree holders has a STEM job, and Microsoft plans to downsize by 18,000 workers over the next year.»

A PwC / Said Business School report highlights the fears of CEOs regarding skill shortages, especially as businesses need to adapt to new forms of automation.

They provide the opportunity, and the means, to help address the skills shortages reported by many industries.

Managing Director of Clayton Legal, Lynn Sedgwick comments: «It's not entirely surprising to see a fall in the number of skilled legal professionals in the market, we've seen skills shortages grow significantly worse over the past few years and the percentage of firms that report a lack of available talent highlights this.

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«Reports like the recent Hays Life Sciences Salary Guide and Market Overview 2014 allow us to create and form debate on this issue and to partner with pivotal organizations, like the UKTI (United Kingdom Trade and Investment) and the CBI (Confederation of Business and Industry), further bringing the issue of skills shortages in the UK life sciences industry to the fore.»

Additional highlights • 63 per cent of resource and mining employers are not actively hiring new graduates despite reports of a growing skills shortage • 2016 salary increases for resource and mining professionals are more modest than the previous year, with 21 % reporting no increases compared to eight per cent in the previous year • Almost three quarters (73 %) of oil and gas employees experience moderate to extreme workplace pressure due to the lack of employees and skills present • Work from home options, pension / RRSP contributions and flexible work hours are the top - three incentives oil and gas employers want to add in an effort to attract talent About Hays Canada: Hays Specialist Recruitment Canada is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hays plc, which has been at the forefront of the global recruitment industry for over thirty - five years.

This report is an in - depth analysis of the IT labour market across Canada exploring top skills in demand, expected salaries and benefits for contract workers, challenges in retaining workers and tackling the rising skills shortages.

This continued activity level means skills shortages are unlikely to let up any time soon, but as the Daily Commercial News reports, many employers have decided to take matters into their own hands.

A separate report today also paints a picture of rising employment but warns that the recent «jobs boom» is a risk from growing skills shortages.

A recent report has highlighted the impact of the cyber security skills shortage.

Two fifths of recruiters reported delays in the development of new products or services, while 35 % said skills shortages held back the development of new working practices.

In recent years, skills shortages in accounting and finance have been widely reported, with a clear demand for suitably - qualified professionals in the UK.

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Let's get this part out of the way: according to the Skill Shortage List and the latest reports prepared by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), industries with the best job prospects in 2013 include child and aged care, health and community services, mining, information technology and green skills.

Bringing skills in preparing and maintaining records of inventory, compiling inventory reports, supporting shipment preparation and loading handling inventory shortages and discrepancies.

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Axiometrics reports that construction — particularly in the apartment sector — has been slowing as costs have climbed, partly due to a shortage of skilled construction workers.

February 24, 2014 CoreNet Global: China Faces Shortage of Talent in Corporate Real Estate China faces a lack of workers with higher - level skills, including those demanded by the corporate real estate industry, according to a report from CoreNet Global.