NY FedPosted on 04/19/2015 7:35:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's not about finding workers; it's about finding the right workers.
According to the latest supplemental survey from the New York Fed's manufacturing and business leaders surveys, employers in the New York area are facing two main problems: finding workers who can show up on time and workers who can hold a conversation.
The survey showed that in April, 65% of manufacturing employers had difficulty finding punctual workers and 60% had trouble finding workers with interpersonal skills.
Among business leaders, a broader survey group, 42% had trouble finding punctual workers while about 48% had trouble finding workers with interpersonal skills.
These results also play into a theme we've been hammering on: As the labor market improves, employers won't have trouble finding workers, but will have trouble finding the right workers.
NY Fed
And this survey highlights another trend in the labor market: wage growth.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
America filled its shores with ignorant uneducated crap. Right from out schools to illegals. What in the hell do we expect.
I call baloney on this article.
America has been sending millions of American jobs to China now, constantly, for over one generation. Every year we buy MORE AND MORE STUFF FROM CHINA.
Both of our parties have been 100% sold on this process now, for years and years.
Articles like this, feed into the desire to export (ever) more jobs.
GOP get with it. America needs jobs right here.
Return American manufacturing. To America.
WHAT? Nobody called me. I think Mrs. rktman had to take some sort of diversity course when she was working and they talked about “emotional intelligence” being a key player in a lot or most interactions. Guess that means being able to see what buttons to push to set somebody off and avoiding them. Or pushing them. LOL! :>}
Found something else....” As the labor market improves,”. Still waiting on this even though the unemployment rates are down it certainly doesn’t mean there’s any improvement. Don’t file, you MUST have found a job. Right? :>}
It is obvious that we just don’t spend enough on education in this country. </sarc >
Sorry, you are in denial. My wife works for a very small manufacturing company and they cycle through temps looking for employable people. The last one was sent away because his vacant staring AT A RUNNING LATHE alerted them to his drug impairment. This is a pattern they see; workers unsuitable to the tasks they need to perform.
Does that survey include the H1B imports that replace Americans?
I bet that I would far short of the mark in the “lacking interpersonal skills” department, according the the metrics employed by these people. Why? Because I’m not politically correct. If they ask my opinion I tell them. And they are not prepared for that.
The legalization of marijuana will fix this problem pronto.
I have a plant in Newark and we have the same problems with new hires, but there’s a difference between the pool of workers from which we draw.
The recent immigrants are good. The older ethnic blacks not so much. But we have good to excellent blacks from the Caribbean. Russians have excellent training and technical skills. Indians are smart but form cliques. Forgive the stereotypes but they are real.
Just hired a Pakistani truck driver who’s also good, but can’t find any other drivers. They are very scarce everywhere.
Actually this is good news for baby boomers. We may be old but we know how to work.
I didn’t believe it eithet til a local employer shared some transcripts of discussions with potential employees at a job fair. I wouldn’t hire them either, and I didn’t see the tats, torn jeans, nose rings, and all the rest. The lack of “soft skills” is kinda understandable when you consider we have generations where no one has ever held a real job.
Ok, you can go back to beating your same old drum again.
Total not in the labor force:
Mar. 2014 Mar. 2015
91,630,000 93,762,000
This number just continues to ramp, ever upward.
Every single month.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm
The labor market is (not) improving.
That will happen when jobs return to America. Nobody is bringing back jobs to America.
The GOP is sold out.
Democrats are sold out.
GOP get with it. Bring back US jobs to America.
More opportunities for those of us who can.
That’s exactly right. If some of us (and I mean those of us who swept floors, put up hay, detassled corn, and did whatever other crap jobs we could get hired to do for a buck-twentyfive an hour back in the 60s) were to apply for these jobs, the employers would kiss us on both cheeks if not for sexual harassment laws. What we learned as expected behavior at work like showing up on time, having a proper appearance, paying attention and following directions, etc. are lacking or absent in far too many applicants today.
CNN can drone on about it til the cows come home but China is not the reason we have an entitlement culture and generational dependency on government support, especially in the black and urban population. That is OUR fault, we elected the people who did it and we failed to throw them out when the social engineering programs failed.
Outsourcing has nothing to do with the issue raised in this article. Nothing.
But they vote democrat, which is why they were brought here.
Just saying.
Our deficit with China was far and away, the largest ever last year.
342 billion dollars.
And it continues to ramp ever-upward this year. Everything we buy from China, means ever more Americans - do not have jobs.
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