What are the top 10 jobs employers around the world cannot find enough talented employees?
It’s not just a lack of educated engineers and finance professionals but both white and blue collar positions organisations continuously strive to employ.
Here is the Top 10 you may want your career to follow – demand will always be greater than supply.
- Sales Representatives – Talented and knowledgeable salespeople are in high demand. Employers want and need sales reps who know their products inside out, understand the global picture, including innovations and logistics and are able to successfully communicate that information to the consumer.
- Plumbers, Electricians and Manual Trades – Skilled blue-collar professionals are in high demand everywhere. Plumbers, carpenters, welders and electricians are being trained as the construction industry struggle to find enough talent. Your own company is a career option or sub contract.
- Lab Workers and Technicians – Skilled laboratory technicians are in demand. Employers struggle to find and retain enough educated technicians as they move from job to job as salaries rise. It’s a bidding war.
- Engineers – A highly skilled employee that is needed everywhere. Companies are trying to recruit more engineers as the lack of competent engineers is beginning to hurt industry across the board. Last count there were 15 different types of engineer.
- Accountants and Finance Experts – Companies have continued to use technology to advance their accounting and finance systems and need new people with the required skills to balance the books.
- Labourers and Factory Hands – Despite large population cities, manufacturing centres cannot find enough semi skilled or even unskilled labour. Often they live too far from industry, lack transportation and lack the basic skills required to work in manufacturing.
- Skilled Manufacturing Workers – There are simply not enough skilled manufacturing workers to go around globally despite a decreasing working age population, increases in training and incentives to keep these essential jobs filled and productivity increasing.
- Bus, Truck, Train, Ferry and Taxi Drivers – Most cities are experiencing a driver shortage. This is a major threat to the global supply chain. Experienced operators will retire within the next decade and school leavers have a low level of interest in these positions. A Naval Pilot (tug boat captain) earns serious money.
- Senior Managers – Many senior positions are available and there is a scramble for talent.. Post graduate education in a Masters or MBA program is becoming essential if not the norm. Recruiters now look globally to fill local positions.
- Machinists and Equipment Operators – Manufacturers build heavy machines and equipment but cannot find enough qualified, skilled employees to maintain their products and keep efficiency levels high.
The message is “think carefully about which career is best for you, whether you like doing it for the next ten or so years and will it pay you enough.” Careers built around demand exceeding supply will be handsomely rewarded.
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