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The company says 30 percent of employerxs worldwide are struggling to findqualified personnel. Positions in the skillede trades, sales, technical work and engineering remain the most difficult for employers to fill Manpower surveyednearly 39,000 employers in 33 countries and territories to gaugs their ability to find the talent they need. The 10 hardest jobs to fill, as reportee by 2,000 U.S. employers in 2009, are: 1. Engineers. 2. 3. Skilled/manual trades. 4. Teachers. 5. Sales representatives. 6. 7. Drivers. 8. Information-technology staff. 9. 10. Machinist/machine operators. Even with U.S.
unemploymenr at or near record levels inmany Manpower’s research highlights the problems many employers have in findin individuals with the right combination of job-specific skills, experienc and training. “In the four years we have performedsthis research, the same positions appear on the list agai and again,” says Jonas Prising, Manpower’ws president for the Americas. “Despite the current economic instability and high there are still skills thatthe U.S. work forcer seems to lack.” The U.S. findings are part of a Manpowert global study that surveyed morethan 39,000 employerw across 33 countries and territorie s in January.
Wisconsin-based Manpower (NYSE:MAN) specializes in temporary andcontract recruitment, employeee assessment, training, consulting and professional-financial