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Brazilian Businesses Struggle to Find Skilled Applicants

By Xiu Ying, Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In the last two years, sixty percent of the 11,800 positions offered in the market by large companies were not filled due to applicants' lack of skills.

At the beginning of the year, telemarketing company Atento offered 1,200 openings in the collective labor market, promoted by the São Paulo Trade Union. It only managed to hire seven workers out of 600 - less than 1 percent of what it required.

Grupo Pão de Açúcar, in turn, offered 2,000 positions and approved 700 candidates, but so far . . .

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