Should Skeletors be excluded?

I came across this rather wonderful 'wanted ad' today on the ever amusing FailBlog and as it's Friday and all, I had to find a reason to blog about it.

So it was fortunate that the Guardian had a piece today about the skills shortage amongst the native UK population.  They featured a recent survey by CIPD showing that 41% of those surveyed had vacancies that were proving difficult to fill, mainly due to a shortage of either skills or experience.

With it being election time no doubt all main parties will be pushing the British jobs for British people angle infamously used by Gordon Brown.  I don't particularly want to get down that road as I'm very much one for hiring the best candidate wherever they happen to be from, but it does raise the interesting point of educating our workforce.

As you can imagine, we've done a fair bit of research into this, and not only are staff more likely to leave if you don't offer them training but just one in five are actually professionally qualified.  From the CIPD research and our own, it seems many companies want the fruits of others labour, but aren't willing to put in the effort to train up their own workforce.

So if you're a manager, lets get cracking and skill up your workforce.