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

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Elements of the local business climate receive mixed reviews.

As illustrated in the chart above, health care quality and health care cost receive opposing opinions—quality of health care supports but the cost hinders.

The employment outlook tips slightly in favor of expansion.

Persistently Unfilled Positions Workforce and employment specialists often point to a “skills mismatch” when explaining the persistence of unemployment in the face of business concerns about scarce talent. Some questions in this survey were intended to assign a dimension to the problem of unfilled positions and to begin to characterize the missing skills.

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