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.

Sounds odd, are you in a very isolated location or something? I'd happily do that work.

Nursery staff of any qualification including apprentices. Any outside of the box ideas very welcome! Its a great setting, supportive management, once people are in they stay for a long time, and often end up returning when they've left to do something else. But getting them in initially is a challenge.

I think this depends if they work for a company or self employed. We were paying £15/30mins for a private instructor, he hired a private pool in different areas each night of the week and had massive waiting lists. He’d have 8/class and do 4 hours a day, that’s £480 five nights a week on top of his day job. His teen DDs were his helpers. The local YMCA I think pays very little though.

Surely it is be because it's crap pay.with a lot of responsibility.
Nursery apprentice wages (any apprenticeship wages TBF) feel like exploitation

I agree. Its a shame as its a great job but should be paid far more than it is.

Yep exactly. Care and support is not paid well enough. Luckily i love working on a rota basis and works for me better than a mon to fri gig. That aside the pay is the main issue.

Someone was leaving my work when I started last year to go back into this field after a long gap.

This.

Employers and recruiters are only looking for staff that have done an almost identical job somewhere else and won't require any training.

So they miss out on people with transferrable skills and the right attitude.

Interesting thread, not recruiting but looking for work. Have private and public sector experience but can’t even get admin role interviews. I have plenty of customer experience and legal knowledge, able to use case management systems etc etc. Would like hybrid ideally but I’m either rubbish at applications or the market conditions are horrific. I don’t want to retrain I’m too old and have primary aged children.

Are these paid internships?

Speech and language therapist

A minimum wage part-time split shift will always be hard to fill. It will probably only appeal to a limited number of local retired people.

Yes I would pass on that too. I’ve done lots of admin, face to face and call handling roles with 30 years experience. All of the usual Microsoft packages, good at Excel etc. Degree educated.

Why does this need to be full-time office based seemingly without flexibility as the other poster mentioned?

@wanttoworkbut Via large construction firms and civil engineering consultancies. They are the firms doing the bidding. Even mid range firms will probably have them as the complexities of tenders are somewhat onerous these days.

I totally get why many people want flexibility but by this they often mean work from home most of the time, rather than can come in a bit later/earlier and leave a bit earlier/later - can work from home in a domestic emergency etc - this is fine if you can find roles like this, but if you can’t and really need a job then it’s you the job seeker that needs a bit more flexibility , who is paying who after all - and companies will have their reasons- the company we do a lot of our work for ( we have a contract to deliver xyz amount of product) they have limited home working to particular employees and a couple of days at most as they found stuff just wasn’t getting done in a timely way - now this does come down to individuals and it was a lot of younger staff ( under 35s) but they didn’t do it without good reason - it’s not a job like say call centre that’s easy to ‘monitor’ either and it’s an industry where admittedly there’s no shortage of people wanting to do the job even though it’s not that well paid unless senior. My son is having slightly the opposite issue in London ( he’s 28 and in tech , working but looking around ) he doesn’t want to work from home as he flat shares , doesn’t even want hybrid more than 1 day a week max and a lot of jobs in tech are indeed like this-

Yep paid, and paid well for internships around £30k pa but prorated for the internship only being 8 weeks.

Do the GPs office not get people who've worked on reception in some other sector? Do they need to have done reception before? I am just wondering why they're so hard to recruit.

Not if there aren't enough people qualified and experienced! It's not an infinite supply.

Very low pay - GP surgeries are private businesses and the partners generally want to maximise their profits by minimising costs. Often just NMW with few, if any, other perks/benefits.

From what I've heard, they can be very toxic places to work, not just patients, but other staff too can be really nasty/bitchy.

Training courses cost a fortune. You're talking thousands for the course fees etc to train an accountant, even more for an actuary which goes into tens of thousands. It's a real problem since local colleges and Polytechnics stopped doing professional courses leaving the private sector to milk the profits with much higher costs. I used to teach AAT accounting at our local college of FE. Course fees were something like £50 per module so very affordable. When adult education was effectively scrapped, the college closed it's entire "business school". Now there aren't any local colleges offering professional accountancy courses at all. So the only option are private training providers who typically charge around £5k for the basic course (3/4 years) with extra add ons for things like weekend revision schools, enhanced marking/feedback, all of course plus the professional body exam fees typically £200 per exam and there are usually around 10-15 exams! It's one hell of an investment for a firm, hence why so many these days put claw back clauses in their employment contracts!

Construction sector tier one or supply chain - look on their websites. National Highways, Kier, Tarmac, Atkins Realis etc…

It’s illegal to make people pay for uniform that is required for the role if doing so takes their pay under NMW for the month. If they are on NMW it will do so.

Our MD demands it sadly. We already have so many part time people and people working flexibly that it's had to get cover for the phones and door (we get a lot of collections and deliveries) and he won't consider a remote phone answering service.

I know, but there is no legislation for how many they give. So you have to pay if you dont want to have to wash it after work ready for the next day. It enrages me, as it's a nightmare washing uniform after a 12 hour shift and drying it by the morning.

HGV drivers for council waste and recycling collections. National shortage ongoing since covid.