skill shortage
Workforce capability gap
A skill shortage is a labor market condition where employers cannot find enough workers with particular qualifications or abilities.
The term typically describes gaps in technical, trade, or specialized professional fields: The tech industry faces a persistent skill shortage in cybersecurity.
Whether a shortage reflects genuinely scarce talent or insufficient wages is often debated.
- help wantedEmployment listings header
- job marketEmployment availability collectively
- recruitmentSeeking new personnel
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- upskillingLearning new work abilities
hard to fill · automation · outsourcing · brain drain · aging workforce · vocational · apprenticeship · qualified · entry level · candidates · STEM · tech sector · trades · blue collar · white collar · nursing · engineering · immigration
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- knowledge gapsignorance, gaps, information gap, blind spots, blind spot
- operational riskssystem failure, human error, equipment failure, data breach, software bug
skill shortageunemployment
Being without paid work
job scarcity · underemployment · redundancy · credential inflation
skill, shortage, skills, skilled, skillful, skillfully, skillfulness, unskilled, deskill