>Some of the complaints about skill shortages boil down to the fact that employers can't get candidates to accept jobs at the wages offered. That's an affordabi

>Some of the complaints about skill shortages boil down to the fact that employers can't get candidates to accept jobs at the wages offered. That's an affordability problem, not a skill shortage. A real shortage means not being able to find appropriate candidates at market-clearing wages. ay, there's the rub. A few weeks ago I was considering offers from two companies, in totally different industries. One was a non-profit in International Accreditation in the Health Industry, and the other was in Finance. The IA company ended up submitting a significantly higher offer than the finance company. Correspondence with them made it appear to be just a game of numbers for the finance company - what kind of skill they could get, for how cheap they could get it.