Posted on 08/08/2017 6:21:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
American employers are trying to hire, but they can't find the right workers for the right price.
The U.S. boasted 6.2 million job openings in June, a record level, according to a Labor Department report published on Tuesday.
The high number of job openings illustrates a strength and a weakness of the U.S. job market. On the good side, American employers are ready to hire. During the Great Recession, job openings plunged to as low as 2.2 million in 2009. The Labor Department began tracking open positions in 2000.
On the downside, employers increasingly say they can't find skilled and available workers to fill their open positions.
A growing debate has emerged among economists: Some say American workers need better skills while others argue that employers need to offer higher wages to attract better talent.....
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Whelp, their expectations need to change.
I’m an electrical engineer.....
I only act as an consultant....
Ton’s of openings......
The world is my oyster now.....
Maybe I should get back into career counseling on a paying basis.
You virtually have to know computers and how to program the things and then have to have a good hand and eye coordination to run them. Plus years of experience to know where and how to grab a tree to cut it and get it on the ground to process it.
It has been that way since whenever and right through the Obastard administration. The starting wage for experienced people is now at 20 bucks an hour up where I come from. I would like to start training disabled vets-those with no legs, to be able to run these machines. The ones who were in tank crews and stuff like that would be able to do it.
I’m seeing my wife trying for almost 4 months to get a job here in Orange County, CA and every employer requires that the entire process be done online. I’m also seeing her get frustrated that the email address on her resume is getting a TON of spam email from weasels that use the job hunting websites as a resource for gathering personal information from people and then reselling that info to the various “marketing” companies.
Huge frustrations because legit businesses don’t seem to hire these days by meeting candidates face-to-face.
And having lots of experience doesn’t seem to matter at all. The job listings all ask for a college degree these days, even for jobs that are considered menial by most people’s standards.
Wife’s friend was unemployed for over a year and said that the only realistic way of getting a job in SoCal is to have a connection that already works for the company.
I suspect there is an element of #FakeNews in this story. They are trying to say we need to keep the illegals we have and to import more illegals.
“””The starting wage for experienced people is now at 20 bucks an hour up where I come from.”””””
I advertise for laborers, no skills needed, at 20 bucks an hour plus overtime. I get very few responses.
They ask for the moon at garbage salaries.
But they do it on purpose so that they then can get h1b’s to fill the slots they never intended to fill with us citizens.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3574082/posts#50
I think America has been sold out, by globalists to make China into the new manufacturing powerhouse.
That is what I think.
America needs to rebuild our own economy.
100% correct.
I have to chuckle at the ones that want a mountain of experience, education, certs, etc. for lavish sums of $14 an hour.
Where is this??
I applied at a handling center for Fedex. It’s part time, 15.00 an hour. Background check, credit check, drug test, forcing me to get a MA license even though I have a license from another state.
PLENTY of other jobs where I have to have a college degree for them even to speak to me. Well, I don’t have one so I guess I am screwed.
Been trying to get a quality job in my field of 37 years since 2012. Had two interviews but haven’t been hired. Most of the time I don’t even get a look.
They’re even hiring LPN’s, RN’s and Certified Nursing Assistants at the nursing home across the street from me. Business must be good.
I’m also in the OC. I agree with your post.
I’ve commented on this phenomenon to friends. Ads ask for experience in the field and often thorough knowledge of multiple design, CAD or 3D modeling programs and offer $15 per hr. I ask why bother to take computer classes to make that kind of money?
These job requirements are just totally made up to ask for so, so much, so they can get cheap foreign workers. “We tried, but no one qualified applied.”
Riiiiiight.
Many don't apply because they know about the test, others never come back when it comes up in the interview.
Is CNN telling us we need more immigrants?
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