Rochester Area Skill Needs Assessment and Business Climate Survey, September 2013

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What level of training is required for unfilled positions? The respondents indicated how many positions and identified up to five job positions. We weighted each job position by the share of the persistently unfilled jobs (i.e. if they said there were 10 persistently unfilled jobs and gave 5 positions, each position was counted as 2 persistently unfilled jobs). CGR matched these positions up with EMSI occupational data for the purpose of summarizing unfilled positions by the skill level. Most of the persistently unfilled positions are

in occupations that could be considered middle-skills. However this estimation would once again be more reliable if the survey respondents were a representative cross-section of the economy.

Each occupation is also classified by the type of training required. As noted below, a plurality of these persistently unfilled jobs require long-term on the job training, with bachelor’s degree as the second most common training requirement.

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