IT’s a knockout, finds CareerBuilder list of hard-to-fill roles

Computing and IT jobs are among the positions which typically take the longest to fill across the globe, finds a survey from job site CareerBuilder.
Wed, 31 Jul 2013Computing and IT jobs are among the positions which typically take the longest to fill across the globe, finds a survey from job site CareerBuilder.

The report lists six roles that take the most time to fill in 10 big markets, based on responses from more than 5,000 human resources professionals and hiring managers globally.

Of the 10 markets, France is the sole country in which an IT manager or network administrator position does not appear amongst the hard-to-fill half dozen. Computer programmers take a long time to hire in seven of the 10 markets, France, Germany and the US being the exceptions.

Accountancy and engineering were other consistently tough disciplines; Japan was the only one where accountants did not feature in the tricky half-dozen, and Russian firms typically find recruiting engineers less of a nightmare than in other countries.

Starting with the UK, the full list of hard-to-fill roles follows:

UK
  • Accountant
  • Administrative assistant/secretary
  • Computer programmer
  • Engineer
  • IT manager/network administrator
  • Sales representative
 
Brazil
  • Accountant
  • Attorney
  • Computer programmer
  • Engineer
  • IT manager/network administrator
  • Software developer

China
  • Accountant
  • Computer programmer
  • Engineer
  • Human resources professional
  • IT manager/network administrator
  • Mechanic
 
France
  • Accountant
  • Administrative assistant/secretary
  • Engineer
  • Machine operator/assembly
  • Sales representative
  • Software developer
 
Germany
  • Accountant
  • Customer service representative
  • Engineer
  • IT manager/network administrator
  • Software developer
  • Tradesperson
 
India
  • Accountant
  • Administrative assistant/secretary
  • Computer programmer
  • Engineer
  • IT manager/network administrator
  • Marketing professional
 
Italy
  • Accountant
  • Computer programmer
  • Customer service representative
  • Engineer
  • IT manager/network administrator
  • Software developer
 
Japan
  • Computer programmer
  • Construction worker
  • Engineer
  • IT manager/network administrator
  • Sales representative
  • Tradesperson

Russia
  • Accountant
  • Computer programmer
  • Engineer
  • IT manager/network administrator
  • Security guard
  • Truck driver

US
  • Accountant
  • Engineer
  • IT manager/network administrator
  • Sales representative
  • Software developer
  • Truck driver


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