Asia faces shortage of workers who can fill growing number of tech roles, says job portal operator

Asia whitethorn beryllium struggling with a shortage of workers aft the pandemic, but Peter Bithos, CEO of occupation portal relation Seek Asia, said it is not the aforesaid arsenic North America's "Great Resignation."

Instead, Asia's workforce has a shortfall of radical who person the skills to capable tech roles successful companies, Bithos told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia."

"What we've been seeing is simply a ample reconfiguration of the types of endowment needed" successful the workforce, helium said. This is reflected successful the summation of tech relation listings connected Seek's platforms, which is up 66% twelvemonth connected year, according to Bithos.

Despite layoffs astatine tech companies, astir "every assemblage successful the system extracurricular of tech" is hiring for tech workers, Bithos explained. Tech jobs crossed Asia stay robust and are "very precocious successful demand," helium added.

A hunt connected occupation portals JobsDB and JobStreet, which are operated by Seek Asia, showed 57,902 jobs disposable nether the accusation exertion class crossed six Asian economies: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand.

Applicants for those tech roles are up 14%, which Bithos said could beryllium driven by tech assemblage layoffs arsenic good arsenic radical feeling "confident" capable to question employment arsenic the pandemic comes to an end.

Laid disconnected workers inactive person galore jobs disposable to them, though those roles whitethorn not beryllium astatine a "pure tech" company, Bithos said.

Technological jobs marque up astir fractional of the fastest-growing occupation titles successful Singapore implicit the past 5 years, LinkedIn said successful its 2023 "Jobs connected the Rise" list. These see jobs specified arsenic cybersecurity engineer, back-end developer and artificial quality engineer.