A gap opens in your team, and somebody asks whether to train, bring in contract support, or hire. This guide gives you a way to answer that before you commit any budget.

• The two gaps that get described in identical words, and the question that separates them
• Why more than a quarter of vacancies are hard to fill, and what it describes instead
• What UK training data says about which gaps development can and cannot close
• When contract or interim support is the cheaper answer, and how to brief it properly

Four questions that settle most build, borrow or hire decisions