{"id":38782,"date":"2013-05-28T10:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T08:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=38782"},"modified":"2013-05-28T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T08:52:28","slug":"what-talent-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/38782\/what-talent-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s got talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

New research conducted by recruitment firm ManpowerGroup<\/a> finds that South Africa is among the countries, globally, who have the least difficulty in sourcing the required talent for positions.<\/p>\n

ManpowerGroup surveyed over 38,618 employers across 42 countries and territories for its annual Talent Shortage Survey finding that one in three respondents reported difficulty filling positions as a result of a lack of suitable candidates.<\/p>\n

The 35% who report shortages represents the highest proportion since 2007, just prior to the global recession. However, South Africa, at 6% is only behind Spain and Ireland (both\u00a0 at 3%) in terms of the percentage of respondents who have had difficulty in filling jobs.<\/p>\n

In South Africa, the percentage of people reporting difficulty filling jobs, is down from 10% in 2012, 14% in 2011, and 16% in 2010.<\/p>\n

ManPower Group stressed that the degree of difficulty employers report does not always correspond to a country\u2019s jobless rates, with South Africa\u2019s official jobless rate exceeding 25% currently.<\/p>\n

\"Difficulty<\/a>

Difficulty filling jobs<\/p><\/div>\n

Employers in the Americas report the most difficulty filling technician posts, while the hardest-to-fill vacancies in Asia Pacific are for sales representatives. EMEA employers report greatest difficulty sourcing skilled trades talent.<\/p>\n

According to the 2013 survey results\u2014and for the second consecutive year\u2014the most acute talent shortages are reported in Japan (85%) and Brazil (68%).<\/p>\n

The problem is widespread in Asia Pacific, with more than half the employers surveyed in India (61%), Hong Kong (57%) and New Zealand (51%) saying that talent shortages prevent them from hiring people with needed skills.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, employers in many EMEA countries report skills gaps are having less impact on their ability to source suitable candidates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t particularly surprising given the high unemployment rates reported throughout much of the region,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n

However, the inability to source the right recruits remains an issue for employers in some EMEA countries. A shortage of candidates with the right technical competencies and a general lack of applicants are both key causes of hard-to-fill vacancies in EMEA \u2013 and both have become more prevalent over time, ManPower Group said.<\/p>\n

\"Jobs<\/a>

Jobs employers are having difficulty filling<\/p><\/div>\n

Half of the EMEA employers who currently face talent shortages say this is having a medium or high impact on ability to meet client needs.<\/p>\n

And the effect of talent shortages on client-facing activity is most pronounced in South Africa (72%) and Romania (69%), where the majority of employers report a medium or high impact.<\/p>\n

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South Africa is among the countries, globally, who claim to have the least difficulty in sourcing the required talent for positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,4320,5937],"class_list":["post-38782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-ict-skills","tag-manpowergroup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38782"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38791,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38782\/revisions\/38791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}