Accountants with the right qualifications will find it easier to secure finance jobs due to a skills shortage that currently grips the sector.
That is according to the latest labour market outlook survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and KPMG, which indicated that half of employers are struggling to fill certain skills vacancies.
IT, engineering, accountancy and finance jobs are the most difficult to fill and the survey suggests that it is only getting harder for employers to do so.
The CIPD/KPMG report warned that 45 per cent of employers are struggling to fill these vacancies, which represents an increase of four per cent since the winter 2009/10 iteration of the survey.
Gerwyn Davies, public policy advisor at the CIPD, said: "In the private sector, we are still seeing shortages in accountancy and finance, IT and, in particular, engineering. Given the new world that we're now in, prospects can be improved by taking a note of this."
Of those employers with vacancies, nearly a fifth (18 per cent) said that accounting and finance jobs are proving the hardest to fill.
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