Posted on 07/25/2013 3:24:17 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a current unemployment rate of around 9%. So how is it with roughly 12.8 million people out of work, there are still so many jobs going unfilled? A recent report by Deloitte for the Manufacturing Institute which was based on a survey of manufacturers, found that as many as 600,000 jobs are going unfilled. “High unemployment is not making it easier to fill positions, particularly in the areas of skilled production and production support,” the Deloitte report found.
There is a growing talent gap between skilled jobs in the trades and trained workers to fill them. In 2011, the Manpower Talent Shortage Survey listed the skilled trades as the most difficult jobs to fill, with electricians, welders, machinists, and carpenters/joiners in highest demand.
According to the Manpower survey, these are the top 10 most difficult positions to fill:
Skilled Trades
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Open boarders should solve this.
Can’t they just offer an Obama Phone?
If salaries were going up in relation to the value society placed on these jobs there would be NO problem filling them.
Or change the qualifications to “standing upright and breathing”...that should bring in a lot of Obama’s people—tatoos, ear piercing, low pants and no skill in “cursive’ reading!
The last time I looked, salaries were established by supply and demand. Right now there aren't enough Petroleum Engineers and so they are getting paid close to $90K coming out of college. That's just due to the competition.
Also, the last time I looked the 9 top paying right out of college jobs went to people who had some sort of tech degree.
Lesson: Don't go to college and major in psychology. You will have a lot of fun but you won't get a high paying job when you graduate.
These stories are a bunch of BS, describing at best regional shortages as national (to hold out hope for the unemployed/cover for Obama). For instance:
1) Skilled Trades - In the northeast many of these people have been unemployed for years since building stopped.
3) IT Staff - In my company all but the director are foreigners; the Americans that used to do these jobs were laid off years ago.
4) Sales Representatives - In the “service economy”, people can’t make a living trying to sell things to people that they don’t want/can’t afford. These positions in NJ require Spanish/Portuguese as well.
5) Accounting & Finance Staff - Flat/stagnant wages indicate no shortage here; much of this work has already been outsourced to Asia. The NYC metro area is filled with unemployed people with these backgrounds since Wall Street was hollowed out years ago (remember when many of those unemployed were part of “Occupy Wall Street”?)
6) Drivers - Pay doesn’t bear out any shortage.
7) Nurses - We’ve been importing foreigners to do this for decades in the same manner as was done more recently with tech jobs; Filipinos and Africans have many of these jobs, and more arrive daily. Not exactly something you can raise a family with.
8) Teachers - NJ has thousands of laid-off teachers if anyone wants them; there is no money to pay them, and several recent graduating classes unable to find work. This was an early target of glut, since everybody would love to work 180 days for the high pay NJ offered; the same pay scale is what drove NJ to lay so many of them off when the taxpayers fled.
Translation: We need more H1-Bs.
Yep, it’s hard to find skilled workers, but evidently it’s even harder to pay them.
Illegal immigrants are another story.
This might have something to do with the fact that salaries have essentially gone no where in the past 20 years.
I will disagree with you on this, I think there are shortages in certain localities (oil patch), and the shortage is of drivers with class A with airbreak, tanker and hazmat.
Yep. Quality people are tough to find that you can overwork, underpay, and who tolerate sociopathic management. They tend to go into business for themselves.
Public education is a failure, can we safely say that now with getting the lefties riled up?
“describing at best regional shortages as national”
A lot of the problem is that companies classify drivers as "unskilled labor"
There's plenty of drivers, just not any that will do a full time driving job for under $10 an hour that many of my local companies hire for. Even the best paying ones you're lucky to get $15.
OTR is where the money is, but not enough people want to go out for 3 to 5 weeks at a time.
The pool is rather small.
You think I am joking? I just saw an advertisement for an accounts payable clerk and they wanted at least a Bachelors in Accounting and 5 years experience for a job a reasonably organized sixteen year old could do.
The people who have the BS are not going to want to be account clerks and the people who want to be account clerks will not have a BS.
There is no lack of people with the skills who are looking for jobs. There is a major problem with HR when they are looking for people to fill those jobs.
This is comical...There’s no shortage...Skilled trades people for the most part refuse to deal with Manpower...
Here in west Michigan there is total brain drain. Anyone with skills left the state for a job a few years ago when things slowed down.
Also the tech fields (which is what I am referring to) is so specialized that it is hard to find enough people to begin with.
If you know ACAD civil 3D and civil engineering, freepmail me; I know where you can get a job in west Michigan.
And finding people who do, and can pass the drug and background screens, they're hard to find.
At least here in TX.
Exactly correct. Speaking as a TOP salesperson for twenty years in industrial and direct sales. There are lots and lots of jobs, if you want to work for free and invest in some company with the hope that they would actually pay you a commission when you do sell some of their crap. Very little available and what is available has HUNDREDS of applications for every slot.
The economy in all sectors outside of Oil and Gas is dead on its back flat at best. Very few can get retrained into Petroleum Engineering in their late thirties or forties and beyond and even if they could are they willing to leave their wives, children or take a massive loss on the house to North Dakota.
All this is a set up for more H1B1 visas for more Foreign slaves to do the work that companies refuse to pay Americans to do!
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