What will be the key skills trends of 2019?

Posted on 14 Jan 2019 by Maddy White

Recruiting and retaining the right skills remains a well-documented challenge for UK manufacturing. With Brexit looming ever closer, business leaders crucially need to secure their future talent now. What are they planning?

Despite UK manufacturing offering a higher than average salary (£32.5k), 81% of firms said they had difficulties recruiting the right staff in the last quarter of 2018, according to a British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) report published recently – the joint highest level since the survey began in 1989. TM spoke to business leaders from a cross-range of…

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