One thing I have learned placing senior leaders in construction: the talent shortage is not on its way. It has already arrived, and the numbers are starker than most boards realise.
Most conversations about the skills gap still treat it as a problem for the next decade. Something to plan for, a line in a risk register. The data says otherwise. It shows up now, in senior roles that sit open for months, in the premiums being paid to move people, and in programmes quietly re-sequenced because the leadership team is not yet in place.
I pulled the data together in a piece on the UK construction talent crisis. If you are hiring at any level of seniority, or weighing up your own options in a market this tight, it is worth ten minutes of your time.
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