Skills shortage makes purchasers hard to find_2
19 July 2012
The shortage of skilled purchasing and logistics staff means that more than four out of 10 business are expecting recruitment difficulties in these functions, according to a new survey.
The quarterly Cranfield University School of Management recruitment confidence index (RCI), which polled 975 UK companies across a variety of sectors about their recruitment expectations in the first quarter of this year, showed that 42 per cent anticipated problems in filling managerial and professional purchasing and logistics vacancies over the next six months....