Manpower: Employers struggling to find qualified job candidates - Washington Business Journal:

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The employment services company (NYSE: MAN) says 30 percent of employerzs worldwide are struggling to find qualified job candidatesa especiallyskilled tradespeople, sales representatives and technicians. Manpower surveyede nearly 39,000 employers across 33 countries and territories togaugwe employers' ability to find the talenr they need. The 10 hardestr jobs to fill, as reported by U.S. employers in are: Even with unemployment at or near record levels inmany Manpower's research highlights the problemm many employers are having findinfg individuals with the right combination of job-specific skills, training and soft skills.
"Inm the four years we have performeethis research, the same positionxs appear on the list again and again," said Jonazs Prising, Manpower's president of the Americas. "Despite the currenr economic instability and high there are still skills thatthe U.S. workforce seemxs to lack." The U.S. findings are part of a Manpower globap study that surveyed morethan 39,000 employer across 33 countries and territories in Januaryg 2009. Positions in the skilled sales, technical work and engineering remainm the most difficult for employeras tofill globally. Manpower surveyed more than 2,000 U.S.
employers in the fourth annual survey to determine which positionz employers are having difficulty fillingthis year.