The NRC-Next published on the 13th of March 2013 the following article: ‘How to get and keep engineers’.
- 1.200.000 = engineers/technicians in NL
- 102.000 = new vacancies that will be realized in 2013 for engineers/technicians in NL
- 150.000 = shortage of well-educated engineers/technicians in NL for 2011-2016
At the same time the Dutch ministry for Health, Wellbeing and Sport published the following numbers in 2010 concerning the developments within healthcare:
- 1.400.000 = people working in NL in healthcare
- the prognoses for between 2011 and 2020 is that this number will decline with 450.000
Even though we are living amidst an ongoing economic crisis, there is an increasing demand for well-educated professionals and specialists, not only within the engineering-sector, but also throughout the entire society (including healthcare). After making this observation, NRC-Next addresses the following question and ideas: how can you assure to get and keep professionals and specialist?
