More Searches For Jobs Without Education Requirements

The growing rift for positions that do not require higher education will continue to increase until 2030.

To get a job in "checkout at the supermarket," or in occupations where there is no requirement to higher education becomes increasingly difficult, and the struggle for such jobs has barely begun.

Aftenposten recently talked, got a supermarket shop at Majorstua in Oslo into a total of 585 applications for a vacancy as a store employee. Full scoreboard is consisted of completing the goods and serve checkout - a position where there are high standards of education.

Meanwhile brands NHO Reiseliv one influx in the number of applicants at all levels within the hotel and restaurant industry. The entire 849 applicants had applied to two positions with coffee chain Starbucks in Oslo.

High labor and internal career opportunities:

The labor market until 2030 will be tougher for those with little education, and the competition for such jobs will increase over the next few years, according to a report from Statistics Norway.

Economy Professor Kjell Gunnar Salvanes at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), believe that the influx of migrant workers may be one of the explanations for the number of applicants.

The large labor migration we've had over the last 10-12 years and that 25 percent of young people drop out of high school, gives us a fairly large group who typically seek out the jobs that do not demand formal qualifications. Manufacturing jobs are the unskilled went to before is largely gone, then it is not unnatural that there is a grocery industry in growth over the streams, says Salvanes to Aftenposten.

More Searches For Jobs Without Education Requirements

With larger stores and merging of retail grocery sector has become a more interesting arena to apply to. Several retail chains have internal career opportunities for the employees and with better working environment, there are many who see this as an alternative opportunity to get an education and career without conducting traditional education.

NHO notice changes

Also hotel and restaurant industry has registered increasing demand in the number of applicants. Rica eagle in Bergen got into 1,400 applicants for 130 positions, while Radisson Blu & Park Alna on average received more than 30 applicants for each of the 50 positions they proclaimed.

Managing Director of the Norwegian Hospitality Association, Kristin Krohn Devold, believe that less demand for master for such positions is alluring among young people with low education.

I think that tourism increases its popularity among young people because many see tourism as a social business where you can work your way to a career without taking a master, or take it later, she said to DN.no.