I work for an energy company.
High paying job openings all the time, but my company cannot find Americans to fill them due to lack of skills.
We hire 2/3 of the professionals from other countries.
...”High paying job openings all the time, but my company cannot find Americans to fill them due to lack of skills....
We hire 2/3 of the professionals from other countries”....
That doesn’t surprise me in the least really. I know that with the Marcelous Shale in my state they were going through the various Career Centers to find people and with offers for training, but had difficulty finding people who could even be instructed. They lacked even the basic understandings one would acquire from high school....or had drug or alcohol issues.
But some have done well...one fellow started at just $12 an hour driving a water truck....no experience....within one year he was making $25 an hour with plans to go further up in the ranks....he’s doing it too the last I heard....and that was four years ago.