Shortages for quality people, rather than being highly variable, are now affecting nearly every industry and type of worker with few exceptions.  From our experience in talking with dozens of HR/Talent organizations across the US each week, in figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and in a number of articles in the Wall Street Journal in the last 3 months, like today's article,  In this job market, Quitters are Winning,   the talent shortage  (and from another perspective, Talent War) is here and here to stay.