At the same time, industry should be more flexible in its employment strategies, creating positions for interdisciplinary, multilingual, highly technically and personally skilled scientists whose qualifications do not fit within tight job profiles.
This has placed a scientific premium on the availability of skilled bioinformaticians, a qualification that is extremely scarce on the African continent.
Each of us had tape across our shirts identifying our names and any special qualifications, like "skilled electrician".
Although the coefficient for the impact of the share of skilled workers with IVET qualifications on the recruitment of such workers is insignificant, its positive coefficient and the positive and significant coefficients for the other shares together comprise a strong indicator favouring the reproduction hypothesis.
The existence of a works council is associated with a lesser demand for externally skilled staff with IVET qualification and a greater demand for university-trained workers.
In addition, companies that consider price as the primary competitive factor seem to rely more on (cheaper) unskilled labour and less on (more expensive) skilled workers with IVET qualification.
External recruitment of experienced skilled workers, the internal qualification and training of employees without a vocational degree, hiring graduates from full time school-based education programs and public training workshop, and hiring university dropouts are all substitutes to providing own apprenticeships.
It is a strength of the study that the majority of participants had no formal qualifications, had been in skilled or semi-skilled but not managerial or professional occupations, were judged to have poor social capital and moderate to high levels of material deprivation, and were considered disadvantaged in terms of frequency of contact with others.
Over half (53%) said they were concerned they will not be able to find enough skilled people with the right qualifications in future.
At that time, it was generally concluded that the emphasis placed on Australian education qualifications by the skilled migration system was failing to achieve desirable employment outcomes.
