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600,000 manufacturing jobs go unfilled due to applicants lack of 'soft skills'
American Thinker ^ | 10/01/2012 | Rick Moran

Posted on 10/01/2012 8:32:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: twyn1

At my 30 year HS reunion (some time back, unfortunately), a number of the most successful people there had not graduated from college.

Realizing of course that for the most part B’s and C’s in 1969 suggest a whole lot more learned than A’s do today.


41 posted on 10/01/2012 9:08:05 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: LibLieSlayer
But... but... but... I have a PHD in Humanities and Women's Studies.

Well there's the problem, what's needed now are degrees in Trans Gender Social Justice, and Climate Change Prescience.

42 posted on 10/01/2012 9:08:46 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Venturer

“A friend told me one problem he had was that a lot of people he hired had their wages garnished for one reason or another and it cost him extra to to pay the garnishment, and keep accurate records of it”

Our payroll company charges a few dollars a week and we pass the cost onto the employee. Many employees with garnishments have so much taken out of their check for child support that they quit after a short time because it’s not worth it for them to work. Of course they always think we should pay them more, but by the time taxes and garnishment are deducted, I don’t know how they live. Definitely cheaper to stay be your babies momma.


43 posted on 10/01/2012 9:09:52 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: DManA

Dead on. Companies treat employees as hired slave labor to be tossed aside at any moment but expect total personal commitment. It’s the MBA mentality to treat employees as “Human Resources” but then get pissed if those humans only act like resources.


44 posted on 10/01/2012 9:10:22 AM PDT by CodeToad (Padmé: "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’d give you all those except the fourth one. I’m not the only child of the Eighties to see what company loyalty got my parents. If a company wants me to work masses of overtime so I can do the jobs of three people, they darn well better have advertised the position as such, and compensate commensurately....


45 posted on 10/01/2012 9:10:42 AM PDT by Eepsy
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To: DManA

True story here..

I was working, making decent money, and wanted to work for another company..

I went through 5 or 6 interviews with the owner of this company, and he told me I fit what he was looking for..

He asked me how much I wanted to be paid.. I told him just slightly more than I was currently making..

At the time I had 7 years experience in my field at the time..

He looked me square in the face and said “ I would never pay someone without a bachelors degree that much” and proceeded to offer me 10K less than I was currently making.

I stood up, looked him square in the face and said “ So, you want me to take a pay cut for the priveledge of working for you? You have done nothing but waste my time. Good day.”

This guy went apeshit!!! started screaming and yelling, cussing and swearing at me.

I walked out with a smile on my face.

Less than a year later, his company was out of business.

Gee, I wonder why?


46 posted on 10/01/2012 9:11:41 AM PDT by joe fonebone (The clueless... they walk among us, and they vote...)
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To: SeekAndFind
Even if everyone have PhD's someone still has to sweep the streets.
Look inside an old fashioned clock, you see big cogs and little cogs but no unimportant cogs.
The problem is that everyone want to be big cogs, but with the fake self esteem boost kids get nowadays, they think they already are.

47 posted on 10/01/2012 9:12:03 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: SeekAndFind; Cringing Negativism Network
"...finding someone who could properly answer the telephone was sometimes a challenge...requires computer aptitude,...'soft' skills that used to be almost taken for granted...employers cited a lack of soft skills...'Interpersonal skills and enthusiasm/motivation.'"

So the social folks running American-"based" "industrials" on foreign soil wouldn't tell the truth and couldn't find enough educated sociopaths after their own evil hearts. The author obfuscated even further.

I've done the actual work of manufacturing and could teach monkeys to do it. Manufacturing is no place for globalist hags educated by women's studies instructors. That piece is a pileup. Our nation's bipartisan leadership is morally bankrupt, and the economic consequences are coming.


48 posted on 10/01/2012 9:12:14 AM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: SeekAndFind
This is non-sense. Young people today want 'Green Jobs'.
What are 'Green Jobs'?
Answer = Growing and selling pot.
49 posted on 10/01/2012 9:12:43 AM PDT by goron (Let's get this done!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I agree, the problem is that as we continue to have fewer and fewer qualified employees, we have fewer and fewer companies in our country and thus fewer and fewer opportunities to get ahead.

We all need a growing and expanding economy and skills set in order to prosper. As companies leave and DO NOT START. Our entire country slowly and inexorably slips further and further towards third World status.

50 posted on 10/01/2012 9:14:46 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe these companies should hire HR people that can actually interpret a resume and conduct a decent interview. Soft skills arepretty much subjective and a lack or strength in them wouldn’t be known until an interview. Perhaps they should review their hiring requirements for certain jobs and adjust them accordingly.


51 posted on 10/01/2012 9:20:42 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: cripplecreek

“The reason Third World countries are Third World,” he says, “is because nothing works. Basically, that’s where we’re headed.”

Hits the nail on the head.

...And once again most responders here don’t read the full original article.


52 posted on 10/01/2012 9:21:42 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: DManA

Pretty sad that’s the business model since companies have made use of so many illegals. They don’t even have to be in the positions they’re looking to fill. They just say well i only pay this guy so much so why should i pay you much more?


53 posted on 10/01/2012 9:22:54 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: SeekAndFind
We're a disconnected society. All around us we see clues as to how and why we've screwed up, these are more of the same.

We've let the family be broken apart. Where we once had multiple generations in the same house, looking out for one another, now kids often come "home" to an empty place and wait for a single parent to come back from one of their jobs.

Before the progressives fixed the workplace for us, all generations worked, even kids with after school jobs or working in the family business. We used to grow up seeing how things are done and being a part of the work hierarchy. Now, instead of the next rung up in a familiar world, "work" is a often a foreign place for which few are prepared.

Before progressives fixed the schools, students were given a more rigorous and comprehensive education that better prepared them for work and life in general, rather than their passing a test designed to justify the teacher's and the school's competence and continued subsidized existence.

With any luck and some common sense, we'll realize that this progressive insanity we've inflicted upon ourselves is very expensive slow motion societal suicide and we're about to pull the trigger.

That shock will make it easier to get the country into detox and shake off this progressive addiction to socialism we've let ourselves get hooked on.

54 posted on 10/01/2012 9:23:42 AM PDT by GBA (The line is drawn, two choices left: We must pull back from the line or be forced to cross it.)
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To: taxcontrol

How would a public school teacher actually go about teaching discipline and motivation? What should they tell the parents, when they don’t like the way the teacher is teaching?


55 posted on 10/01/2012 9:25:37 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: Sacajaweau
I herd my grand kids a couple of days a week and am required to enforce my Daughter in Laws rule, home work, spelling tests every day.

Make them think never give them the answers and never let them use a calculator. If I can do their problems in my head so can they, I explain how to approach a problem it is up to them to get the answer.

56 posted on 10/01/2012 9:26:53 AM PDT by Little Bill
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To: factoryrat

What do these companies have to say about paying for apprentice programs?


57 posted on 10/01/2012 9:27:17 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: Covenantor
Hits the nail on the head.

Actually he hits one of many nails on the head, the rest of us see the other nails.

Things don't work because they can't. They can't work because we've so over regulated, over taxed, and over coddled America.
58 posted on 10/01/2012 9:29:39 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Some people may think that’s a joke but it’s not.

I once saved and Exxon Engineer from getting crushed to death.

He honestly thought he could stop about 7000# of 9 5/8” steel casing coming at him.

After I saved his life he even tried to get me fired.


59 posted on 10/01/2012 9:29:43 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: PeterPrinciple

My Kid and I were taking apart vehicles from the time he was three. Today he can work on any thing with an engine, Magic hands.


60 posted on 10/01/2012 9:33:30 AM PDT by Little Bill
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