What is the reason for the long queues? Arlanda? Lack of staff at security checks.
The queues to kids and youth psychiatry? Lack of psychologists, nurses and specialists, which does not only apply to BUP. Every regions lacks staff in hospital care. This is, for example, about too few midwives and specialist nurses, according to The National Board of Health and Welfare’s latest survey.
Went on The National Board of Institutions, which runs special homes for young people in need of care, is up for staff in mid-June. The reason is that it is difficult to recruit employees with the right skills.
The problem probably feels again by many principals. About three out of ten teacher are unauthorized and The National Agency for Education predicts that there will be a shortage of 12,000 qualified teachers and preschool teachers by 2035.
add lack of police, dental shortage, assistant nurse shortage, lack of cooks and lack of craftsmen, to name a few professions where supply is not close to meeting demand. Recently, companies alerted in a row industries, among other things in the hospitality industry, that they do not find people to hire. And according to The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise According to a survey from last autumn, almost 80 per cent of employers find it difficult to recruit people with suitable qualifications – the lack of skills is described as the biggest obstacle to growth.
One restaurant owner summarizes the situation with the fact that it has become the employee’s market. In northern Sweden opens Arbetsförmedlingen even a special office to guide interested parties to the new industries. And its director general explains that staffing is a major challenge because there is a significant skills shortage among the workforce, as can be seen in the statistics.
The queues do not disappear because someone has received a diploma.
For at the same time as Employers have a hard time finding employees located unemployment in the country of about 6.7 percent – this is about 330,000 people, half of whom have been unemployed for a year or more. There is a matching problem here, as it is not jobs that are missing, but the right knowledge of those who are without.
The solution, according to Magnus Wallerå, head of the department for skills supply at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, is, among other things, to increase the places on the upper secondary school’s vocational program, which educates young people for many of the shortcomings. The Riksdag voted in favor in mid-June, when it agreed to sound labor market needs play a greater role when the range of education in upper secondary school and municipal adult education is planned. And on Wednesday last week appointed the government an inquiry into a needs-adapted vocational education for adults.
About the changes If this is to lead to a closing of the gap between jobseekers ‘offers and employers’ demand, however, many educations must be of significantly higher quality than today. Constantly there are revelations that as well adults as teenagers do not get it practical teaching to which they are entitled, for which the municipalities pay and which are required for them to be employable.
If there is no change in it, it does not matter how many more people attend a vocational education. The queues do not disappear because someone has received a diploma, but because the person has acquired new knowledge and knows how to perform a job.
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