Active informatics have warned that higher and further education organisations in the UK are creating a skills gap by failing to effectively use labour market intelligence to ensure their local areas are adequately filled with the right talent pools.

The information and mapping solutions provider, who has recently launched Active Profiler, a suite of web based applications to enable organisations to improve their approach to employer engagement, is concerned that despite UK employment standing at over 2.5 million, many businesses with job vacancies are struggling to recruit due to the number of unsuitable candidates^.