Problem

Disparity between workers skills and job requirements


Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Skills mismatch
Nature:

There is a growing disparity between the skill-structure of those seeking work and available vacancies, with a consequent growth in the share of 'structural' or 'frictional' unemployment.

Accelerating technological change and an ageing workforce with skills that need updating can lead to a situation where a need for skilled personnel and unemployment are coinciding.
Background:

The "Knowledge Paradox": technological skills will be needed at a point in the future where not enough young people are born to learn them and where the contribution of the older generation is urgently needed to cover the gap. This will make a reform of our current education system indispensable.
Broader Problems:
Imbalance
Narrower Problems:
Over-qualification
Obsolete vocational skills
Unavailability of trainee employment
Unsuitability of development projects for available labour
Lack of relationship between education and available jobs
Related Problems:
Social underdevelopment
Aggravates:
Disillusionment
Educated unemployed
Demanding requirements
Lack of job satisfaction
Sensed futility of job-hunting
Inadequate response to societal needs
Inadequate human resources development
Strategies:
Designing employee engagement
Values:
Disparity
Subject(s):
Social Activity → Employment??
Social Activity → Human resources??
Social Activity → Workers??
Societal Problems → Imbalances??
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Problem Type:
C: Cross-sectoral problems
Date of last update
10.07.2019 – 17:17 CEST