A recently CIC published Professional Services Survey also says that the 12,000 required construction professionals, will also have to have high levels of competence – three quarters of current job applicants are lacking in the necessary skills.
The UK Construction Professional sector currently employs 270,000 people and comprises 28,000 firms. A total of 12,000 new competent construction professional recruits will be needed every year to also counter the number of people retiring each year – The CIC says added pressure is being put on the industry because 20% of current CPS professionals could retire in the next 10 years.
Additional research by CIC concludes:
- 74% of CPS firms have found that job applicants are likely to be lacking the necessary technical skills.
- 70% of CPS firms believe that a shortage of recruits is the biggest problem facing the £13.9 billion industry.
- In excess of 50% of all CPS firms anticipate recruitment difficulties over the next year
- And with student numbers on Built Environment courses having dropped by 28% since 2003/4, the industry is struggling to attract high caliber young professionals into the sector.
All CPS firms reported some difficulties in recruitment, with 40 to 53% reporting ‘hard to fill’ vacancies. The main cause of recruitment difficulties was a low number of applicants with required skills, resulting in the majority of firms having to increase workload for other staff.
CPS employers believe that the quality of recruits who are either graduate level, part-qualified members of professional institutions or trained to other levels has declined. The skills gap is most pronounced in Building Services Engineering firms.
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