Regardless of the high unemployment numbers, American manufacturing companies are having trouble filling as many as 600,000 skilled positions, reveals a new survey from Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute.
The survey, "Boiling Point? The skills gap in U.S. manufacturing," interviewed a sample of 1,123 executives at manufacturing companies, which shows 5 percent of open manufacturing jobs are unfilled because there aren't enough qualified candidates.
"The survey shows that 67 percent of manufacturers have a moderate to severe shortage of available, qualified workers," says Craig Giffi, vice chairman and consumer and industrial products industry leader of Deloitte. "Moreover, 56 percent anticipate the shortage to increase in the next three to five years."
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