Mexican employers offer fewer positions to jobseekers who lack adequate skills
El Economista
and The News
Levels of unemployment in the country not only remain at rates above 5 percent, but could be worse for 2010, mainly because the labor force will increase and the market cannot absorb the labor force will reach generate.
Moreover, accorting to a global survey by Manpower, Mexico ranks sixth in the world as having the most problems in the recruitment of workers due to a lack of skills.
Mexico's Manpower public relations director Laura García said that 44 percent of Mexico's employers indicated they had had a difficult time hiring people, up 16 percent from last year.
"What's ironic is that, globally, there is a decreased demand for workers due to the economic recession, and so we expected it would be easier to hire talent, but the opposite has happened," she said.
The worst is yet to come, say experts who predict a drastic fall in production in the second half of the year that will continue through early 2010, which will cause a greater loss of jobs and increase the unemployment rate.
