In the autumn competence barometer, 72 percent of the members of the organization responded that they had a shortage of suitable applicants, despite the weakening of the business cycle and labor market.
It is primarily the rapid expansion within the Defense Forces and the police, as well as other parts of the judicial system, that is behind this, writes the trade union newspaper Publikt.
"These activities have large recruitment needs and sometimes it is simply too difficult to find enough and sufficiently competent applicants when so many need to be recruited," comments the organization's chief economist Roger Vilhelmsson.
Regarding state employers in general, the greatest shortage is within the professional areas of IT, purchasing, procurement, marketing, sales, planning, and management within production, as well as investigative competence within the police.
In the competence barometer conducted in the spring, 75 percent of the organization's members responded that they had a shortage of applicants with the right competence.
