Employers: difficulty finding talent

51% of employers said that Argentina has difficulty filling positions that require certain talents as in the case of the specialized technicians and engineers, according to the Annual Talent Shortage Survey conducted by the international consulting firm Manpower.

Alfredo Fagalde, CEO of the consulting firm, told Telam that one response to this lack of talent is that when young people choose a career to study must consider not only his vocation but also market requirements. 

"Four or five years we have been doing this survey lack of talent and look to be increasing the number of employers report having difficulty finding suitable staff. This year was the 51% of respondents expressed this problem," he explained.
In listing the positions where suitable candidates said they are technicians, assistant secretaries, engineers, production workers and supervisors, according to Telam are not achieved.

For technical he said it is the demand that exists for the right offer. "They lack experience, knowledge, technical skills or training not suited to market requirements," he described.

A curious case is the lack of secretaries and adequate assistants, a situation that does not occur elsewhere in the world, he said.  "Employers indicate that secretaries are postulated lack of business knowledge, or knowledge of academic disciplines or requirements industry ", he said.

He explained that in the case of secretaries and assistants, "in recent years are taking many more tasks that were previously required so they need more knowledge of business activity."
"Its function is now not only attend, but them own managements, demanding business knowledge, formal requirements of the industry, more participation, so the language is added tasks is delegated, "he said.
Regarding the lack of engineers, said "it is a category Applicants who always missing. " "It's a structural issue. Obey the training," he added. 

"It is a race in which the mismatch between demand and supply shows. Professionals information technology and computing have significant employment opportunities and no production shortfall in those races" plotted.

"There are many universities that have developed these races (to engineering in all its branches) and fail to have a significant tuition, though these professionals have almost secured a job title," he lamented Fagalde.
warned that to compete in a increasingly complex world, companies must take measures to adapt to ongoing changes leading to continuous learning of its employees.
"Every time it needs to do more with less, so that the tendency is to require more knowledge and skills "he said.

Finally, it found that "people must be accompanied by the process of learning that is not always dynamic, and that imbalances occur in the time when individuals take time to prepare," he said.