The declining unemployment rate has made it more difficult for employers to find workers, but it's still tougher than it should be given the current jobless rate.
While there, he said, he heard reports of civilian militias being formed, and observed that it was increasingly difficult to find health workers, livestock workers and trained professionals to distribute much-needed aid in the region, which now faces a drought.
Eighty percent of the executives said that the current labor market was difficult, but that they still managed to find workers.
Commercial real estate is expensive and limited, the cost of raw materials continues to rise and it can be difficult to find skilled workers who can afford to live in the city.
Although workers did not have to be alive in 2005 2006, proxies were difficult to find for deceased workers.
Many hospitals are short of nurses and would find it difficult to find replacements for workers out sick because of sore arms, fevers and other reactions to vaccination.
"It's a problem that is affecting not just ordinary farmers and workers, but even university graduates, who are finding it very difficult to find any work.
Indeed, with workers so difficult to find these days, few employers would be willing to consider layoffs at the first sign of a slowdown.
Even today, "it is difficult to find homes for Down Syndrome kids," says social worker Irma Sarava.
He later backtracked during a BBC radio interview, saying these companies are examples of "good employers" that tried hard to recruit UK workers but found it difficult to find staff with the right skills.
