Posted on 04/16/2014 7:27:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Every month, the New York Fed conducts two surveys: the Empire State Manufacturing Survey and its services-sector counterpart, the Business Leaders Survey. And each April it asks respondents of both surveys questions related to the difficulty of finding potential hires with certain skills.
This year's pair of April surveys confirmed that, as in previous years, employers are having trouble finding people with advanced computer and interpersonal skills, punctuality, and reliability.
Further, businesses in both the manufacturing and services sectors report that it is becoming increasingly difficult to retain skilled workers.
Below are the two key tables from the survey. The first shows that 36% of businesses in the manufacturing sector that responded to the survey are having moderate difficulty finding workers who are punctual and reliable, while 11% report great difficulty in finding workers with those traits. In the services sector, it's not as bad — 22% of respondents report moderate difficulty finding punctual, reliable workers, whereas only 3% report great difficulty.
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What other dozen experience requirements other than PHP did your HR people add to the “experience” requirements? What geographic areas did they advertise the job in?
I can put my finger on at least a half dozen of my students who are working adults with years of PHP experience who would relocate for 100K a year.
If your company couldn’t find an american with PHP skills to fill the position then they were’nt trying very hard.
Too many companies tailor their requirements and geographic range for applicants solely to have a justification for H1Bs.
Pure BS. What jobs are there that "Americans don't know how to do?" Be specific.
Some work is less tied to a schedule that other work and I don’t mind a flex schedule so long as it’s getting done and not causing a bottleneck or holdup. If it’s tied to a schedule and absence would cause a problem then the employee needs to be punctual and not fail to show up without notice. That’s really not too much to expect.
Although I’m sure it’s a lot more prevalent in younger workers, not showing up isn’t an attribute of just the young. I work with somebody in her sixties who overplays the “I feel too sick to come to work” card. In the first 2 months this year, she missed time from work on 20 days, claiming illness. It was even worse last fall. Amusingly enough, after her supervisor wrote her up for excessive absenteeism, her health improved dramatically. She’s only missed time on 1 day in the last 6 weeks.
There have always been slackers and people who abuse sick days, but they were the exception rather than the rule. I get the strong impression that it’s the rule below a certain age, recent college grads on up to early thirties at least.
I tell my daughter who is looking for a better job, that she doesnt need to worry so much about if her skills are sufficient, with a history of just showing up every day is a bigger plus anymore. You can train someone who is there every day.
Until you get to be within ten years of retirement age. Then you will be outsourced or ‘Resource Actioned’.
as mick jagger says...
I don’t have
a full time job..
i don’t need the aggrivation..
i’m a lazy slob
i hang fire..
bkmk
Who is John Galt?
It sounds like FreeRepublic needs a job board.
“For years Microsoft (MSFT) has been an avid user of temporary-staffing firms such as Volt Information Sciences (VOL) for a variety of short-term projects, including writing chunks of software, says Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos. “Our contingent workforce fluctuates wildly depending on the different projects that are going on,” Gellos says. “Somebody does just part of a project. They’re experts in it. Boom, boom, they’re finished.”
*** Well, that explains Windows 8.
BTW, Americans do not want to work? If so, then how come we read of places where say a Walmart or such opens and 20,000 applicants apply for 200 or so openings?
More a case of just no jobs.
Otherwise the unemployment numbers would be far worse when hundreds of thousands give up looking for a job. Why? Discouragement. You can fish in a fishless pond, but you are not going to catch any fish.
I’ve seen job adds like this though:
- Must have 10 years experience in circuit board design
- Must have 10 years C/C++ programming
- Must have 10 years Java programming
- Must have 10 years in real time operating systems
- Must be fluent in English and German
- Must know Android/iOS/Linux frameworks
- Must have 10 years writing device drivers
- Must have 10 years writing application software
- Must be fluent in middleware framework technologies for audio/video/graphics/networking/etc....and have 10 years experience working with them.
- ETC!!!
...job pays $80,000/yr.
I shook my head and figured “good luck”. Even if such a person existed I don’t think $80K is even a serious offer, that alone would scare anybody off.
I don’t deal with 20 somethings from here, most of the engineers under me are in other countries (not my choice), they work hard - although their lack of experience shows, mainly in wanting any decisions made for them.
My son is in this age group, although he’s a Marine and has witnessed the requirements of corporate America as I work from home and have to travel frequently - I wonder how many of these kids have a dad at home pushing them?
I agree. There does seem to be a pervasive entitlement mentality in that age group. This is just another symptom.
RE: I shook my head and figured good luck. Even if such a person existed I dont think $80K is even a serious offer, that alone would scare anybody off.
That ad looks like a “fake” ad for the Department of Labor. It is a preliminary requirement for many companies to hire
someone they already have in mind ( usually, a foreigner ). They submit an ad like this to meet a formal government requirement.
In order to successfully hire the foreigner, they have to “prove” to the DOL that they can’t find anyone locally who can meet the job requirement they advertise. The ad will be there for some time and then, they tell the DOL that nobody applied. THEN, they hire the person they have in mind with DOL’s approval of course.
Want to know how to spot ads like these? Look at the language requirements... if you have it, that’s usually a hint that the company already has a foreigner they want to hire in mind.
It’s not that businesses are having trouble finding people. It’s that they are having trouble finding people they don’t have to spend money on training.
Yep. You get yourself an employee who is not on drugs, and who owns an alarm clock, and you’ve struck gold.
I’ve been out of work for about 2 months. I’ve applied to place after place. However, no one wants to pay more than just above minimum wage. I don’t do drugs, I am very punctual, but no one seems to care.
People have suggested that I go into business for myself. Nice idea....if I could get past the business-destroying regulations out there. Not to mention the money I’d need to start my own business.
It’s getting harder not become discouraged.
The work gets done to a point. The issue is they are limited on how much face to face interaction they have with season developers and management and also we have to have all of our team meetings (like scrums) later in the day so they don’t just call in from bed. I maintain a flex schedule with my staff as you can get the work done, but you still need to have at least half of your day available to interface with others (and email/skype doesn’t count) without making them stay past 6 or 7pm. It is not my fault you stay up all night gaming or whatever and cannot get out of bed before 11-12.
Maybe that is why she was paid less??
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