This is the second report from the Canterbury Employers Survey that was run by the Department of Labour in October 2011.It focuses on employers’ perceptions of recruitment and skills issues and looks at how they have responded to the initial challenges of recruitment following the earthquakes.
Survey results showed that in the year to September 2011, of those employers that tried to hire staff, between a third and half said that the earthquakes had made it more difficult. These difficulties often related to employers finding that as businesses began to recover from the earthquakes, fewer people were available to fill a gradually increasing number of jobs. As the rebuild and restoration work in the region gathers pace, more employers are likely to face the same difficulties already being experienced by those who have begun to recruit.