Against a backdrop of widespread recruitment difficulties in the UK, employers are still overly focused on qualifications. Despite record levels of job vacancies across a variety of sectors in the UK and employers experiencing difficulties finding the quantity and quality of labour needed, there are clear gaps in what employers are doing to address the problem, and a lack of awareness of the key skills initiatives available that could help, finds the CIPD report, Employer Views on Skills Policy in the UK, published in August. Some 57% of employers are still asking...