Is It Really Difficult to Find Qualified Employees?

One of the common things you’ll often hear these days, whether from the boss to the manager, is that “finding qualified employees is impossible, or even if we find them, keeping them is impossible.”

Is finding qualified employees really as difficult as it’s talked about?

If we need to give a quick answer to this question: if you are tightly bounded to a traditional way of doing business and management, finding and retaining qualified employees can be challenging. In fact, we can say that company loyalty has decreased not only for qualified employees but generally.

In the past, employees’ expectations from workplaces were limited to more basic needs such as salary. Now, the new workforce not only wants financial returns but is also not satisfied with them; they seek flexible working conditions, finding meaning in their work, a positive work culture, and opportunities for education and development. They want to have a say in the work they do.

For companies to attract and retain qualified employees, it is important to offer competitive salary packages, benefits and development opportunities, establish a good employer brand and develop effective recruitment strategies. A workload resulting from unfilled positions that is distributed among other employees creates motivation loss and inefficiency. Employees will resist tasks assigned to them due to vacant positions, as they already have their own workload. It can even be said that this resistance leads to a general loss of performance.

In terms of managers, new issues and agendas to follow will emerge, hindering the successful management of their tasks. In summary, creating recruitment strategies and developing employee loyalty policies to attract qualified employees will help solve this issue of “finding qualified employees is impossible.”