You have been hired by a multinational Healthcare company to write a 2000-word report responding to the task below. 
"Identify and analyse causes of labour shortages. Based on your findings, make recommendations about how labour shortages can be reduced."

• You must use the following source in your answer:
Manea, L.D., Virlanuta, F. O. and Muntean, M. C., (2019) ‘Investigating the Causes of the Current Labor Shortage in Romania’, The International Conference ‘The Risk in Contemporary Economy’ (‘Dunarea de Jos’ University. Faculty of Economics), 1(1), pp. 44–
52.

• You must also use at least 5 other sources that you select yourself.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: • You must not focus on just one country or workplace, but you may use specific countries or workplaces as examples.

Introduction (suggested: 300 words)
· Include definitions of any key terms (e.g. labour shortage).
· Include brief relevant background information (e.g. labour shortage statistics).
· Include a statement of aims which summarises the main aims of the report.

Findings (suggested: 1200 words, 300 per subsection)
· Divide the Findings section into 4 subsections. 
The First Subsection
· Your first subsection should have the following subtitle (choose only ONE of the words in italics): Labour Shortages in the Healthcare Industry. 
· In this section, you should write about labour shortages in the chosen industry.

The Other 3 Subsections
· In each of the other 3 subsections, you should write about one cause of labour shortages. It is up to you whether these causes are specific to your chosen industry.
· Each subsection needs a subtitle. You may either write your own subtitles or choose from the subtitles below (in bold). The explanations in (brackets) have been included to help you.

· Immigration (How restrictive immigration policies that stop people from moving to other countries can cause labour shortages. You could consider barriers to work such as qualifications not being recognised abroad, or visa issues.)
· Rising Economic Inactivity (The extent to which people need or choose not to be in paid employment, and how this causes labour shortages. You could consider ideas like the aging population, early retirement and long-term health issues such as long Covid.)
· The Skills Gap (New skills the modern workplace requires, and how a lack of these can cause labour shortages. You could consider how the rapid development of technology and changes in customer demands create new jobs that require new skills.)
· Low Wages (Whether wages tend to be fair and provide a suitable standard of living, and if not, how this can cause labour shortages. You could consider issues such as rising inflation, and whether state benefits can now provide a better quality of life than minimum wage jobs.)
· Cost of Childcare (How high childcare costs can cause labour shortages by encouraging or forcing parents to leave their jobs and become stay-at-home parents. You could consider the type and amount of parental support provided in different countries and how this affects labour shortages in these countries.)
· Lack of Qualified Candidates (How in certain industries such as healthcare, there are often more job vacancies than qualified candidates to fill them. You could consider which industries are most likely to be affected, and why people might choose not to train in these areas e.g. the time commitment or cost of studying.)

· Key ideas should be supported with reliable, relevant source evidence.

Conclusion (suggested: 150 words)
· This should summarise the key points from the Findings section and make it clear what the most important points are.

Recommendations (suggested: 350 words)
· Include an introductory statement explaining the purpose of the section.
· Include three recommendations. Give each one a subtitle. You should create these subtitles yourself.
· Use bullet points (one per recommendation).
· Each recommendation must clearly link to a cause you have already discussed in the Findings.
· Every recommendation should be supported by research.


ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Your grade is split into four categories: Task Fulfilment (40% of your grade), Structure, Use of Sources and Language (each worth 20% of your grade). Each category assesses different aspects of your work, as explained below:
Task Fulfilment (40%) • Relevance: Your report should stay on topic. It should not contain any information that does 
not help answer the report task.
• Report section function: Each section of the report should fulfil its function by following
report-writing conventions and doing what the reader expects. Your ideas should be in the 
appropriate report section (e.g. you should not make recommendations in the Findings). 
• Analysis: Your report should be analytical, not just descriptive. For example, you could consider the consequences and limitations of the ideas you include. 
Structure (20%) • Order of ideas: Your ideas should be in a logical order, and the same idea should not be 
repeated multiple times (although you may refer to ideas you have previously discussed).
• Paragraph structure: Your paragraphs should follow the structure discussed in your APS 
lectures. Each paragraph should have only one main idea, which should be made clear in its 
topic sentence. This idea should be well supported (e.g. with explanation or examples). 
• Cohesive devices: You should use cohesive devices (e.g. “therefore”, “however”) to show 
the links between your ideas. You should make logical choices about when to do this and 
which cohesive devices to use.

You should use a large range of sources. Your sources should be complex, thorough, academic and reliable. It should be clear how your source evidence supports your ideas and links to the report task. Your sources must not be earlier than 2018

Your paraphrases and summaries should be frequent and easy to understand. You should use your own words. The meaning of the original source should remain clear. You may include direct quotations, but only when appropriate.

You should reference all information from sources accurately.  our citations and reference list should follow the conventions of Harvard referencing, as explained here: https://www.citethemrightonline.com.

Your vocabulary should be varied and relevant to the report topic. You should use a wide range of grammatical structures. • Accuracy: Your language use should be accurate and natural, with as few errors as possible. Your writing should be easy to understand and should not cause strain (confusion) for the reader. 

• Academic style: Your writing should follow the conventions of academic style. You should avoid personal language, idioms, emotional language,informal language, rhetorical questions and contractions. Your writing should be precise. 

Students are expected to demonstrate relevant skills and competencies; to be articulate in expressing ideas orally; and to be coherent and structured in terms of written or other media. Forms of expression at this level may be descriptive or imitative, but students are expected to demonstrate an increasing understanding of the theoretical background of their study and the analytic competence to explore it, as well as its relationship, where appropriate, to particular skills. Students are expected to develop an awareness of strengths and weaknesses in their skill sets

Use PEEL writing structure all over


Now, generate a detailed and comprehensive structure for the report