Talent Shortage is Real - You Must Recruit Every Day

"At most companies, people spend 2 percent of their time recruiting and 75 percent managing their recruiting mistakes."

- Richard Fairbanks, CEO of Capital One

From Luke Graham, special on CNBC:

More than one-third of employers around the world are experiencing difficulty filling job positions, global employment consultancy Manpower reported on Monday.

Manpower surveyed 41,700 hiring managers across 42 countries in its annual "talent shortage" report in the first three months of 2015. It found that 38 percent of managers could not find the talent they needed - the highest proportion since 2007 and two percent higher than last year.

"Businesses across the world continue to face a crippling talent shortage," said Manpower in a new release accompanying its report.

It found the hardest jobs to fill were sales representatives and skilled trade workers such as chefs, mechanics and electricians.

"Talent shortages are a real problem, hurting organizations' competitiveness. From the data we've gathered and the structural changes we can see coming in the labor markets, we know the problem is only going to get worse," said Manpower CEO Jonas Prising, in the news release.

Hardest jobs to fill globally in 2015: Manpower

1. Skilled Trades

2. Sales Representatives

3. Engineers

4. Technicians

5. Drivers

6. Management / Executives

7. Accounting & Finance Staff

8. Office Support Staff

9. IT Staff

10. Production / Machine Operators

  

The best are working for someone else. You must be looking for talent every day and have you're 'A" Players always looking for talent too. Build that virtual bench.  

Next week we will discuss how. Hint: you have to think about recruiting like you think about marketing your company. It is not your father's/mother's world out there today.  

  

Regards,

Rick Wallace