Recovery will highlight skills gap

The latest Recruitment Confidence Index (RCI) shows that a growing economy is a double edged sword, because as times improve, the number of skilled people required to maintain the growth also grows, and they simply are not available.

One out of every two employers is expecting difficulties filling sales vacancies, up from 40 percent earlier this year, says RCI. Meanwhile, 45 percent of organisations predict harder times attracting good IT people, up from 34 percent four months ago.

The RCI quarterly trends survey is published by Cranfield School of Management and The Daily Telegraph. Shaun Tyson, Professor of Human Resources at Cranfield School of Management, believes employers share the blame for the anticipated problems. “We will always have problems with high level skills in the UK because many organisations don’t invest enough in training and developing their people,” he says. “The trend over the past years has been to limit training to the very specific skills that the organisation needs now rather than training people for the future.”
 

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