Intersectional testing

The number of people of working age in Estonia is decreasing. It is clear that in the future people will have to work longer and that the proportion of non-working people will decr...

One of the prerequisites for this is graduates with the necessary and well-applied skills-knowledge in the modern economy and society, continuous improvement of skills and, if necessary, retraining. Nearly half of the prospective workers should have higher education and a third should have vocational education. By 2025, the number of employees in IT, timber, machinery and equipment maintenance, science and development, engineering offices, design, consulting, and also in health care and social care in connection with the ageing of the population is projected to grow. In addition, due to the high average age of the workforce, there is an acute need for labour in energy and education.

The short-term need for labour is forecast by the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund's labour barometer. According to recent estimates, the Estonian labour market currently has a large shortage of chefs, software developers, programmers, truck drivers. There is also a shortage of staff in engineering-technical positions - engineers, mechatronics, CNC machine tool operators.

The service sector is most in short supply of security staff, chefs, customer service personnel and cleaning staff. Production requires production operators, machine seamstresses, joinery, construction project managers and specialists. There is a shortage of bus and long-distance motorists.

Fishery.