10 most hard-to-fill jobs for employers
Even with the high unemployment rate, many employers are struggling to find new blood, particularly in certain positions. Has Finance been struggling to fill key positions?
Here are the top 10 hardest jobs to fill for U.S. businesses:
- Skilled trades
- Engineers
- IT staff
- Sales representatives
- Accounting & Finance Staff
- Drivers
- Mechanics
- Nurses
- Machinists/Machine Operators, and
- Teachers.
This list is based on the seventh-annual Talent Shortage Survey, by the ManpowerGroup. The survey gathered responses from more than 1,300 U.S. employers.
Overall, 49% of U.S. employers said they are having trouble filling “mission-critical positions,” which is a slight improvement from the 52% who reported having trouble last year.
Why are companies having trouble in this area? The study found that the top reasons were:
- lack of available candidates
- applicants looking for more pay, and
- lack of experience.
- Share on
Free Training & Resources
White Papers
Provided by Anaplan
White Papers
Provided by Personify Health
Further Reading
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is taking a scalpel to its still-in-the-works expense reporting standard. If and when the b...
Those of us who can remember the Internet becoming a fixture in the workplace also remember a lot of so-called experts making dumb predicti...
The wave of tech fraudsters landing in the slammer rolls on. Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos infamy, crypto hustler Sam Bankman-Fried … ...
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is calling on publicly traded companies to report employee compensation. And that’s n...
Spirit Airlines didn’t fail overnight. The collapse was years in the making – a compounding sequence of financial decisions that an...
Finding and securing talent is always at or near the top of CFOs’ list of concerns. Could removing college degree requirements from ...
