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The demand for labour in Sweden is increases but will employer look at skills rather than race?

Monday, 05 December 2011
Reports recently our here show that there are few skilled people looking for work here, in Sweden that in some times in the past. But the question asked is if employers have looked properly into non Swedish looking people and encourage them to apply for positions.

The reports also hold that there are areas of skills that require increased demand for skills. For all 51 of the 72 surveyed courses, there are shortages of experienced job seekers, according to statistic Sweden’s annual Employment Outlook Survey.

Compared to last year's Labour Force Barometer, more employers now say that there is a shortage of job applicants.
The largest shortages of applicants are those with a nursing education in the fields of anaesthesia, intensive care and surgical care as well as applicants who are trained prescriptionists.

In the 51 out of the 72 educational groups, employers report that there is a shortage of experienced applicants. The greatest shortage has been of applicants in several graduate engineering programmes, including electronic, computer and automation engineers, and engineering physics.

The number of educational groups in which more than 50 percent of employers have been looking for new staff has increased since last years the survey.

It is mainly in the technical areas that the labour market looks the brightest for applicants. There is a shortage of recently qualified applicants in several educational programmes, including graduate in energy and electro technical engineering. According to employers, the number of employees with a BSc and MSc degree in a number of different engineering fields will increase over the next few years.

Within the social sciences area, there is a shortage of recently qualified applicants with an education in programming and systems analysis. There is a good supply of recently qualified applicants for other educational programmes in this area. According to employers, the greatest shortage is of vocationally experienced applicants who have studied computer programming and systems analysis, and applicants who have studied economics. It is expected that the number of employees in these two educational groups will rise over the next few years.

In the health sector, employers say that there has been a significant shortage of recently qualified applicants with a nursing education in the fields of anaesthesia, intensive care and surgical care as well applicants who are trained prescriptionists. There is a continued shortage of experienced applicants with medical degrees.

To add to the above, within the teaching area there is a shortage of recently qualified and experienced applicants with training as recreation instructors and compulsory school teaching in mathematics and natural science.
On the flipside though, the number of employees with preschool teaching education and compulsory school mathematics and natural science teachers is expected to increase within the next three years.
By Scancoamrk.se Team

Good supply of applicants		Shortage of applicants
Newly graduated		Newly graduated
Librarians		Nursing: Fields of anaesthesia, intensive care and surgical care
Lawyers		Trained prescriptionists
Sociologists		Recreation instructors

Good supply of applicants		Shortage of applicants
Occupational experience		Occupational experience
Upper secondary school teachers: History/social sciences		MSc engineers: Electronics/computer technicians/automationng*
		MSc engineers: Engineering physics
		BSc engineers: Structural engineering
Educational programmes where the largest percentage of employers assesses that the number of employees will...
Decrease up to 2014		Increase up to 2014
Art and design		MSc engineers: Electronics/computer technicians/automation
Child care and recreation*		Measurement and control technology*
Theology		BSc engineers: Structural engineering
		MSc engineers: Engineering physics
		BSc engineers: Electricity/electronics/computer technology
Data source: Stauistic Sweden

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