Victorian Employer Increased operating costs Northern Metro Region: 47% Victoria: 44% Skills and Training Inability to meet customer needs Survey 2017 Northern Metro Region: 41% Victoria: 39% Northern Metro Challenges Over 12,100 employers responded to the skills and Managing the skills of the workforce training component of the Victorian Employer Satisfaction and Skills Survey in 2017. Of these, 1,370 Employers reported that recruitment was challenging were from the Northern Metro region. Employers due to candidates not having the required skills or report that skills are important to productivity, but being job ready. many are facing challenges filling jobs and finding the right applicants with the right skills. These challenges are faced both now, and are expected to continue into More than a quarter of employers saw the need to the future. However, a high proportion of employers improve the skills of existing staff. that access training to improve the skills of their workforce report a positive impact on productivity and Finding people with the right skills return on investment. Northern Metro Region: 54% Victoria: 53% The statistics below reflect the experience of employers from the Northern Metro region compared Finding job ready candidates to the overall Victorian average. Northern Metro Region: 33% Victoria: 33% Productivity Training staff to keep skills up to date Northern Metro Region: 27% Skills are important to productivity Victoria: 27% Businesses found that a lack of skills had a medium to Recruitment challenges high impact on workplace productivity. Employers faced recruitment challenges because High impact potential candidates did not have the required Northern Metro Region: 33% experience and lacked job specific skills. Victoria: 28% Agreed roles were difficult to fill Medium impact Northern Region: 54% Northern Metro Region: 48% Victoria: 54% Victoria:53% Lacked relevant experience Low impact Northern Metro Region: 57% Northern Metro Region: 16% Victoria: 55% Victoria: 16% Lacked technical / job specific skills Impact of insufficient workforce skills Northern Metro Region: 51% Victoria: 50% A lack of skills can increase the workload for other staff, affect operating costs and result in an inability to Few applicants meet customer needs. Northern Metro Region: 43% Victoria: 46% Increased workload for other staff Northern Metro Region: 57% Victoria: 61%
Victorian Employer Skills and Training Survey 2017 Northern Metro Over 12,100 employers responded to the skills and training component of the Victorian Employer Satisfaction and Skills Survey in 2017. Of these, 1,370 were from the Northern Metro region. Employers report that skills are important to productivity, but many are facing challenges filling jobs and finding the right applicants with the right skills. These challenges are faced both now, and are expected to continue into the future. However, a high proportion of employers that access training to improve the skills of their workforce report a positive impact on productivity and return on investment. The statistics below reflect the experience of employers from the Northern Metro region compared to the overall Victorian average. Productivity Skills are important to productivity Businesses found that a lack of skills had a medium to high impact on workplace productivity. High impact Northern Metro Region: 33% Victoria: 28% Medium impact Northern Metro Region: 48% Victoria:53% Low impact Northern Metro Region: 16% Victoria: 16% Impact of insufficient workforce skills A lack of skills can increase the workload for other staff, affect operating costs and result in an inability to meet customer needs. Increased workload for other staff Northern Metro Region: 57% Victoria: 61% Increased operating costs Northern Metro Region: 47% Victoria: 44% Inability to meet customer needs Northern Metro Region: 41% Victoria: 39% Challenges Managing the skills of the workforce Employers reported that recruitment was challenging due to candidates not having the required skills or being job ready. More than a quarter of employers saw the need to improve the skills of existing staff. Finding people with the right skills Northern Metro Region: 54% Victoria: 53% Finding job ready candidates Northern Metro Region: 33% Victoria: 33% Training staff to keep skills up to date Northern Metro Region: 27% Victoria: 27% Recruitment challenges Employers faced recruitment challenges because potential candidates did not have the required experience and lacked job specific skills. Agreed roles were difficult to fill Northern Region: 54% Victoria: 54% Lacked relevant experience Northern Metro Region: 57% Victoria: 55% Lacked technical / job specific skills Northern Metro Region: 51% Victoria: 50% Few applicants Northern Metro Region: 43% Victoria: 46%
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