72 Percent of Employers Struggle to Fill Jobs

A weekly poll posted on SmartPulse asked: Do you have openings at your company that you struggle to fill? 

• Yes, 72%
• No, 28%

Employers....do you agree?  What positions are you finding the hardest to fill? What are the biggest skill gaps?

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The New Odd Couple: Skilled Worker Shortages and High Unemployment

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[Bob Fritz]

Our hardest position to fill, year in and year for decades, is competent sales people. I mean people who can initiate the need and close orders, not mere order takers. Hunters, not skinners. Supposedly, "sales" is a dirty word among pointy-headed academics. But people who can sell earn far more money than almost any other non-managerial job.