Construction white collar skills crisis intensifies

We came2004-09-16-skilled-workers-shortage-226233 across an interesting article in the Construction Enquirier recently. Check out the full details here.

As the article shows, “the main reasons stated for the difficulties in filling vacancies were the low number of applicants with the required skills (53%), a lack of required experience (53%) and a lack of qualifications (48%). ”

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