Firms "struggling to find staff"

Reading articles like the following seriously nark me...

More than one in 10 employers struggle to fill staff vacancies despite the recession, a survey has shown.
Although unemployment has soared to more than 2.2 million, businesses say they are facing difficulties in recruiting people with the skills they need.
A total of 11% of employers polled in the Manpower Annual Talent Shortage Survey said they had problems recruiting the right staff, almost as many as the 12% the year before.
But Manpower said the figures were an improvement on 2007 and 2006 when 34% and 42% of employers complained of such difficulties.
Mark Cahill, managing director of Manpower UK, said: "Despite the highest levels of unemployment the UK has experienced for over a decade, employers are still struggling to recruit people with the skills they require.
"In this climate employers can afford to be very specific when looking to hire new staff and therefore companies are demanding more from employees.
"For example, a PA may now need to have accounting or language skills to be considered for a role when traditionally these skills would not have been essential to secure employment."
For the first time in the four years the survey has run, engineering positions were named the hardest to fill, followed by skilled trade, sales rep and management roles.
However, nurses dropped out of the top 10 trickiest roles to recruit, despite the NHS's need for specialists.
Manpower surveyed more than 2,000 UK employers in late January for the survey.
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I like the bit about "employers can afford to be very specific when looking to hire new staff". I suppose what this means is to obtain an interview you already have to be doing this job or have done this job... but hang on a minute! Doesn't this mean to have already or currently be doing the same job you would have had to be interviewed etc... and unless you hadn't already had been doing that job you wouldn't have passed that interview. In other words it is f*cking impossible to have that specific experience. RETARDS!!!

Rant over.