Skills shortage in Sweden: plan with skills data
Swedish employers facing skills shortages can plan better with a skills and task model: break roles into tasks and skills, compare future demand with current supply, and test reskilling against hiring on cost and time. Public labour market forecasts from Arbetsförmedlingen and SCB add the outside view of which occupations are hard to recruit.
How do you plan for a skills shortage? Start with tasks and skills, not job titles.
Four steps
- Break key roles into tasks and skills
- Estimate demand per skill by quarter, including AI impact on tasks
- Compare with current supply and expected attrition
- Test reskilling, hiring and contractors on cost and time
Use public Swedish data
Arbetsförmedlingen's occupational outlooks and SCB's labour market surveys show which occupations are hard to recruit, a useful check against internal plans.
Empley's Skills and Task Model and demand and supply forecasting are built for this kind of planning.
Evidence
- Our assessment
Requirements summarised from public legal sources; not legal advice.
Common questions
- Do we need a skills taxonomy first?
- A light one is enough to start. Refine it for the roles that matter most.