Disparity between workers skills and job requirements

There is a growing disparity between the skill-structure of those seeking work and available vacancies, with a consequent growth in the share of 'structural' or 'frictional' unemployment.

Accelerating technological change and an ageing workforce with skills that need updating can lead to a situation where a need for skilled personnel and unemployment are coinciding.

The "Knowledge Paradox": technological skills will be needed at a point in the future where not enough young people are born to learn them and where the contribution of the older generation is urgently needed to cover the gap. This will make a reform of our current education system indispensable.

1. Imbalance

1. Unsuitability of development projects for available labour
2. Unavailability of trainee employment
3. Over-qualification
4. Obsolete vocational skills
5. Lack of relationship between education and available jobs

1. Sensed futility of job-hunting
2. Lack of job satisfaction
3. Inadequate response to societal needs
4. Inadequate human resources development
5. Educated unemployed
6. Disillusionment
7. Demanding requirements

1. Restricted in-service training
2. Limited means of marketing employable skills
3. Downgrading of jobs due to computerization
4. Arbitrary job qualifications
5. Antagonism between employment policy and technical advance

1. Social underdevelopment

1. Designing employee engagement

1. Disparity