Lack of skilled workers

A new dilemma has emerged in the workplace: an increasing shortage of skills in the places enjoying the best economic growth, coupled with a continuing - sometimes worsening - shortage of attractive work opportunities in other regions. The shortage of skills hampers the pace of recovery and growth in one place; high unemployment and lack of opportunities hampers social cohesion and enhancement in another. Often those who are unemployed or underemployed in one place have skills that are in short supply elsewhere. Bridging the two can transform both business and employment prospects.

1. Unavailability of appropriate expertise
2. Labour shortage
3. Insufficient personnel

1. Untrained sewing skills
2. Untrained clerical personnel
3. Unavailability of heater installers
4. Shortage of women instructors
5. Shortage of trained teachers
6. Shortage of trained computer operators
7. Shortage of trained apprentices
8. Shortage of skilled transport workers
9. Shortage of military manpower
10. Shortage of domestic servants
11. Limited construction manpower
12. Lack of trained firefighters
13. Lack of skilled manpower in rural areas
14. Lack of licensed chauffeurs
15. Insufficient skilled electricians
16. Insufficient local bookkeepers
17. Inadequate maintenance personnel

1. Unrestrained wage increases
2. Inappropriate employment incentives

1. Small resident professional workforce
2. Maldistribution of population within countries
3. Inadequate manpower planning
4. Inadequate human resources development
5. Excessive turnover in skilled personnel
6. Economic inefficiency

1. Uncertified skilled tradesmen

1. Training tradespeople
2. Supplying capable workforce
3. Reducing unemployment

1. Absence
2. Lack