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Job openings and recruitment needs

Official statistics of Sweden

Upcoming publishing: 2025-05-27

Statistics Sweden and the Swedish Public Employment Service are currently developing a new survey which will replace the surveys Job openings and unmet labour demand, Labour market tendency survey and the Labour market outlook survey. The new survey, Job openings and recruitment needs, will report statistics on job openings, recruitment problems and skills needs, the latter for a selection of occupations.

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Total shortage of 70 000 people in various occupations

2025-03-31

During the third quarter of 2024, there was a total shortage of 70 000 people in various occupations across Sweden. At the same time, half of employers had experienced some type of problem when recruiting in the past six months. This is shown by new statistics from Statistics Sweden.

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