What are Hard to Fill Jobs? Not What You Might Expect...
The country is not suffering for astrophysicists and neurosurgeons.
Rather, a majority of the "hardest-to-fill jobs" are done by blue collar
workers, according to a survey by Manpower Inc.
The jobs most likely to go wanting are:
- Sales representative
- Teacher
- Mechanic
- Technician
- Management/executive
- Truck driver
- Driver/delivery
- Accountant
- Laborer
- Machine operator
To compile the results, Manpower surveyed more than 2,400 employers nationwide.
"With the variety of positions employers are struggling to fill, it seems like job seekers should have little trouble finding work," said Jonas Prising, president of Manpower North America, an employment services company. "Yet on a daily basis, we hear from clients who can't find the right people for open positions and candidates who are struggling to get hired. ... The talent crunch is more complex than a shortage of people."
In 2007, 41 percent of employers said that they had difficulty filling jobs, down from 44 percent in 2006. Sales representatives were also the hardest jobs to fill in 2006, though engineers and nurses were then second and third.
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