What jobs are you/your employer struggling to recruit to?

[wanttoworkbut]

Just that really. There's a million comments saying getting jobs is difficult at the moment, but there must be some shortages somewhere, or at least where there are fewer good candidates. I am looking in the north, but any region of the UK welcome.

In my experience the skills aren't there either, people move on quickly without getting a body of difficult experience under their belts. (ExLA)

This will come as no surprise, but I have been looking for an NHS Dentist for well over a year. Even newly qualified clinicians now want to go straight into private work. Impossible task.

Care worker. I have recently got a care job, whilst looking for other work. They cant get staff. People come for induction day and dont come back. Managers don't understand why.

Of course, it is minimum wage and extremely hard work,. Short staffed, expected to buy your own uniform (they only pay for 1 top). There is no training. The place is huge, and I average 8-10 miles of walking each day.

There is no staffing ratio, so they can staff as they please. The excellent, hard working overseas staff work in excess of 60 hours a week. There are no longer visas for overseas workers.

2 staff on a nightshift, with over 30 elderly residents.

Social workers... literally rolling adverts in the LA I work in. Also other related jobs that people have mentioned so support workers, children's home staff etc, not wanting to get in to a debate about immigration but recently lots of these support type jobs were taken by people who were here on sponsored visas but then the agencies who employ them can no longer sponsor them frustrates me when people say about "people taking jobs" when there aren't that many people applying for them and the end result is a massive lack of support for vulnerable people who need it.

Where is this? I know some students who would jump at this.

I left UK at Christmas.
We struggled to employ busdrivers, social workers, nursery workers, foster carers, care/support/workers in my area. I understand why. Wouldn't do it myself. The pay and conditions are awful.

Secondary school teachers for maths too.

Copywriters with a good knowledge of excel.

You can't pay a living on an OT's wage in London. And that's why I guess a lot of jobs are at vacancy in the more expensive areas of UK.

Because no trainees were taken on between 2008-2010 after the GFC. Accountants have the same problem.

I think that’s the problem, it’s in-house so although money is good (probably £200-250k inc bonus) but you’re not going to earn a partner salary and whilst there is some flexibility there’s not loads (some overseas travel and cannot be fully remote). Hours can be long.

The candidates coming from private practice want 8-5 or 9-6 max with flexibility to at least do drop off or pick off every day to off set the loss of a potential partner salary

Accountants! I've been speaking to three different local firms in the last few weeks and all have vacancies and struggling to get staff at all levels, to the extent they're not taking on new clients. They say it's always been hard but never been this bad before. Not even getting more than a couple of applicants for each advert who usually have neither experience nor qualifications.

They all take on school leavers and graduates, who beggar off when they've benefitted from the training and study support after they get qualified or build up experience. They can't take on extra trainees each year as they already take up time/effort from existing staff who have their own work to do alongside training the new staff.

No easy answers really.

I remember a couple of decades ago when I started my own practice and was recruiting and it was bad back then too. I ended up compromising by taking on a retired accountant who wanted to earn a bit of pocket money alongside her pension, and a couple of office administrators who I trained up to do basic book-keeping etc. I'd have far rather have employed someone qualified/part qualified and experienced, but when I advertised, there wasn't a single applicant!

Sonographers.

Quantity Surveyors, Building Surveyors both with experience, not grads.

Great thread. Such a terrible job market at the moment so it's very interesting to read,
So the recruitment gaps are (so far):
Very well qualified specialists eg actuaries, lawyers with 15 years experience, accountants, sonographers etc
Bid managers for big bids
Maths and science teachers
Office admin jobs where you need to be in the office
Jobs with criteria eg drive your own car, speak Welsh, wear a business suit (for the field sales example)
Social work (this also requires a qualification), probation
Care work, cleaners and very part time hours eg lunchtime assistants

No-one has mentioned AI yet. Maybe the tech bros mo's are all still at work.

@Beesclover I agree with this.

@Dilemma999 hampshire

Difficult because the training isn't there? Most unemployed young folk can't afford to learn to drive though they would love to.

Not UK wide. Where I am, there's very few Social worker jobs available, I was really surprised as there used to be loads.

Any job vacancy can be filled by someone qualified and experienced if a decent salary and flexible working conditions are offered.

Are they? One of DD's also worked at McDonald's and left teaching swimming to go full time because it was better paid

Buyer and similar roles but it's because the pay is cheap compared to the market and were in the office full time (not standard in our industry)
Also ridiculous experience expectations for entry level jobs ( in-depth SAP knowledge& experience for about £2k more than min wage

Where in the UK are you please?

Yes, this is definitely a large part of it.
Also predominantly women in the profession for whom it's difficult when babies come along- they often have to live far out to be able to afford housing and getting back for childcare reasons on time is tricky- especially with the expectation of unpaid overtime.

If people are struggling to fill what could be considered entry level roles such as cleaning and school support staff have they considered speaking with the job centre about recruitment for specific positions? What I need to see for my young customers is that training will be provided in a supportive environment and driving licence not required. Young people want jobs but many jobs don't want them.

Hmm interesting, I might be able to do this. I am good at writing bids/tenders and setting capital projects up. How would I find such vacancies?

Possibly, or people just don't know that they're career options (apart from cyber security I suppose).