10,700 unfilled jobs in one sector in one state? Not sure I believe it. There have quite a few such stories the past year or so, large numbers of unfilled, or supposedly unfillable good paying jobs in specific industries. More information needed.
There are plenty of people with the appropriate skills and experience to fill many of those openings if those jobs do indeed exist. The problems lie with HR practices and Management’s utter dependency on them as a separate entity. HR departments have been empowered by Management’s preference for being disassociated from that process except for when a signature is needed.
Also, HR departments are very often run by women, a protected class and very, very often they are liberal Democrats and are more likely to discriminate against those who are not part of a protected class of US citizen.
IMHO, corporations who rely so heavily on their HR departments and corporate policies are shooting themselves in the foot.
Many a worthy, competent candidate gets turned away all because they don’t meet 100 percent of HR-established criteria and corporate “zero tolerance” policies and I’m not talking about hiring illegal aliens or violent felons.
Don’t hand me that crap about not being able to find good people because they’re right under your noses...or should I say thumbs?