Transcript Future Skills Wales 2003 Progress Update

Generic Skills Survey
2003
Occupational Analysis
Introduction
 Future Skills Wales 2003 Occupational Analysis has been
generated from evidence gained from the 2003 Employer
Survey
 Focus on Generic Skills transferable across occupations
 Purpose: to assist in developing policy and planning the
provision of service delivery.
 Information on attitudes and perceptions will help agencies
to remove barriers to training.
Overview
 Employers anticipate skill requirements will rise in future
 Employers agree which skills are most important across
occupations.
 IT – The biggest increase in skills requirements over the
next three years.
 Welsh language skills – employers expect their
requirements to rise.
 Biggest focus on skills required for the growth expected in
Service occupations.
Occupational Structure
 Wales has relatively more employment in lower-level
occupations
 Associated with declining industries
 Wales has lower share of many management and
professional occupations
 Since 1998 the occupational mix in Wales and the UK has
changed – movement towards professional, sales,
administrative and care occupations
Occupational Structure
 Since 1998 the Occupational Mix in Wales has changed:
 Strongest Employment Growth has been in:
 Textiles, printing & other skilled trades
 Caring and personal services
 Science & Technology associate professionals
 Sales
 Culture, Media & Sports
 Health & Social welfare associate professionals
 Business & Public Service associate professionals
Occupational Structure
 Looking Forward : 2003-2008
 Occupational Growth – The Next 5 Years:
 Health Professionals
 Secretarial & Related
 Caring & Personal Service
 Health & Social Welfare associate professionals
 Culture, Media & Sport
 Leisure & Personal Service
 Sales
 Business & Public Service associate professionals
Employers’ Skills Needs – Current & Future
Is Wales In A Low-skills Trap?
 Employers’ Attitudes to Skills
 Greater attention needs to be paid to encourage demand
for skills.
 Respondents aware of the importance of skills, but few
agree investment in skills brings business benefits
Employers’ Skills Needs – Current & Future
 Hard to Fill Vacancies
 22% of employers said they had vacancies
 62% said one or more vacancies were hard to fill
 Smaller firms suffer most
 13% reported elementary administration & service
occupations, 11% for sales occupations
 Distribution, hotels and restaurants especially
Employers’ Skills Needs – Current & Future
Hard to Fill Vacancies
 Variation reported from “all who have hard-to-fill vacancies”:
 Manufactures seemed to find business and public services
professional posts hardest to fill – 19% with vacancies
 Banking & Finance sector have problems with administrative
occupations – 9% with vacancies
 Leisure occupations problems reported
 Sales occupations harder to fill in the distribution, hotel &
restaurants sectors
Employers’ Skills Needs – Current & Future
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All employers believed that skills requirements will be higher in 3
years time – by far the most important are IT skills.
 Most Important Skills required:
 Understanding Customer Needs – Primary importance
 Communication Skills – Primary importance
 Adaptability & Flexibility
 Management Skills
 Leadership / Motivational skills
 Entrepreneurial skills
 Welsh language skills – low down the list but has a training implication
Skills Gaps by Occupation
Skills Gaps by Occupation
 Gaps between the skills employees have now and those needed to
meet current business objectives
 19% of firms in Wales reported skills gaps
 Skills gaps more prevalent among managers
 5% reported for Administrative & Secretarial
 Manufacturing 11% & Construction 15% skill gap shortage
Skills Gaps by Occupation
Training
 Employers Providing Off-The-Job Training – past 12 months:
 54% provided it for their managers
 7% provided it for plant, process & machine operatives
 65% Highest provision for managers was in Public
Administration, Education & Health Sector
 Occupations quite highly skilled received bulk of training support
 Lower skills base receive crumbs from the training table
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