New Zealand is hungry for workers to fill vacancies in its workforce. The Department of Labour has released its latest findings, from 2007, detailing the employment situation.
In 2007 only 54 percent of advertised vacancies in New Zealand were filled within 10 weeks of advertising, which is a 54% fill rate.
The easiest workers to find were for agriculture and fishery, with a fill rate of 65%. Trades workers were the hardest to find, with a fill rate of just 37%
The country’s workforce has grown substantially in the last few years, largely due to record high rates of participation in work and record net migration inflows. Even so, the workforce has not been able to match the strong growth in demand for labour. As a result, employers are having more and more difficulty finding both highly skilled and less skilled staff. Skill and labour shortages have reached record highs.
Fill rates for the major occupational groups were:
- Trades workers: 37%
- Service and sales workers: 51%
- Professionals: 54%
- Plant and machine operators and assemblers: 54%
- Technicians and associate professionals: 57%
- Clerks: 57%
- Legislators, administrators, and managers: 61%
- Elementary occupations (such as labourers and freight handlers): 63%
- Agriculture and fishery workers: 65%
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