Posted on 10/23/2014 4:36:17 AM PDT by thackney
There are 95 million unemployed in this country, there is no shortage.
Have you seen the quality of recent college grads?
“Dow is investing billions on a massive new ethylene cracker”
As an aging white male, I could possibly construe the preceding as a racist statement. Help me Al Sharpton!
I’m 60 with two college degrees, one in engineering and one in business. I have a good resume and interview well. A head hunter told me I’d need to take a competency test before he could send me to a particular client. It included fractions and logic problems as well as reading comprehension. Most of it was grammar school level with only a handful of problems that were high school level. When I spoke to the head hunter about it he told me that virtually all of the candidates from the local “historically black” college had failed the test. Many others with college degrees had also failed, but in lesser amounts. The test had dramatically reduced the client’s turnover. As an aside he told me that he believed that if the test went to court it would be ruled racially discriminatory.
The entire idea behind public education was to prepare illiterate farm hands to work in the industrial revolution. Even as society has become more complex the education system has dumbed down its product to the point they are not capable of working. All they are capable of doing is filling out welfare forms and voting Democrat.
There is a difference between quantities of people, and quantities of workers, particularly for jobs that require skills and effort.
One-third of job applicants fail, avoid drug tests
http://standardspeaker.com/news/one-third-of-job-applicants-fail-avoid-drug-tests-1.1736972
Drug testing troubles employers during worker shortage
http://www.caller.com/business/eagle-ford-shale/drug-testing-troubles-employers-during-worker-shortage_04336350
Survey: A third of manufacturing job applicants disqualified due to drug testing
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/business/survey-a-third-of-manufacturing-job-applicants-disqualified-due-to-drug-testing-1.1736611
There is a genuine shortage of qualified workers in some sectors who are willing and able. But most reasonably intelligent people can get qualified with a minimum amount of OTJ exposure.
Most tsets I have taken for employment were usually nothing hig. I am weak on fractions since it’s been a few years since I have had to do much with them.
Me and higher math never got on too well though.
The pre-screen test that I took for where I am now were MCSE caliber ones in areas that I have had little to no exposure.
It was an online exercise. I figured I bombed big time. The recruiter called the next day and I asked for the bad news. I scored about 85 or so percent. High guess factor.
Anyone who expects the product of government schools to come out with those skills is probably an idiot. Of course they have to be learned somewhere, what have these companies been doing before now?
What I have seen was the cost spent on training was considered wasted when the training was finished, employees left to another company who could pay more, since they didn't spend money on training.
And the economy is at the lowest labor-force participation rate in 45 years. something's not right.
I’m tired of being a civil engineer. Where do I sign up?
Who would want to eat such a thing, anyway?
Hiring the product of government schools and realizing that many of them are both uneducated and untrainable.
I would be willing to try a nice 101 Proof Bourbon cracker, but ethanol? No way.
Don’t be so obtuse!
Ethanol has a terminal OH group CH3CH2OH and contains all single bonds.
Ethanol is a liquid (alcohol)
Whereas ethylene contains one double bond H2C=CH2
Ethylene is a gas.
/pedantism
Granted that companies do not have the enforcement teeth as the U.S. military, but this is the way the system worked back a generation or two ago.
My Dad stayed in the Naval Reserves for 20 years after World War II ended because that was part of the agreement of sending him through OCS to train for his particular skill set.
He barely missed a Korean call-up because my eldest brother was born in the summer of 1950. By the time a Vietnam call-up loomed, he had six kids. But he still dutifully reported for his two weeks of reserve training every summer until his contract was discharged.
how do they expect anyone to be qualified in that field without hiring them and training them? I really do not believe they thought that schools would do that for them.
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