Participants represented the full range of regions, industries, company sizes, functional specialties, and tenures.
Method of interview
Online survey
Supplementary notes
This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Difficulty in organizations' hiring of AI-related roles, past 3 years, % of respondents"
Source notes that: "numbers may not round up to 100% because those who responded "don't know" were not counted"
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Global challenges of hiring for AI related roles 2019-2022, by function
From 2019 to 2022, the greatest increase in difficulty when hiring AI-related roles was among data engineers, where ** percent of respondents said they had difficulties hiring for that position. Closely behind were translators, with ** percent claiming to be much more difficult or somewhat more difficult to hire for positions within that skillset over the 3 years.
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