Too many people trying to act 'Not White.'
47% of the population of New Orleans cannot read or write. Probably not a good place to have a 'Job Fair' but, you'd be racist if you didn't.
MRI technician. Interesting. How hard can that be? The doctor’s the one who has to make sense of the pictures. I wouldn’t think that’d be such a tough gig. I actually like all the weird noises it makes, the whole 70s sci-fi look and feel. I wonder if you can do it part time. Do you need a degree?
We are trying to find a software person with a unique skill set for a longterm job with good pay. We so far haven’t found what we need out of more than 100 applications. We’ve been looking for more than a month.
Perhaps those 55K-60K jobs used to pay 20K more than that.
That and the engineers I know that are getting "right-sized" and would be looking for a job were making 100K+.
More Democratic Party policy. And America’s laziness.
I have a friend who has 4 daughters. All graduate from college with liberal arts degrees. Journalism, Communist-era literature, physical education and religious studies. All are unemployed. But none will go and learn any skills.
Then we have the Elkhart Indiana folk who lost their jobs thanks to unions, environmental legislation, and stupid OSHA, etc policies. Now these people are wards of the state and are almost unemployable. “I can’t afford my Ford F150 and my house and plasma TV while working a WalMart!!!!”
Welcome to the Nanny State.
Part of the problem is that recruiters and management want people with the *exact* skillset they specify. That’s pretty rare and increasingly so the more specialized the skill becomes. They will pass over 100 qualified applicants that could pick up the skills OTJ or in a couple months of training to try to find one “perfect” candidate.
A great example is in software engineering: These idiot recruiters typically want “three to five years’ experience” in the latest fashionable programming language or system. Trust me, as a guy who knows a dozen or more programming languages, after awhile, they’re all the same. It doesn’t take long to pick up the umpteenth language. But no, they want you to have “three to five years experience” in this latest fad language.
Screw ‘em. When they get their heads out of their rectums, they’ll discover there’s plenty of people available who can learn quickly, will gladly do the work and be excellent employees. Just as soon as management fires HR recruiters and unlearns their idiotic MBA training.
There was a time when you could advance your career
and your pay by moving to a different area but that
is difficult to do now because of the real estate issues.
That’s the problem with a high tech economy where the only education choice for most people is a 4 year degree or high school. The 2 year degree programs in most states are pathetic, teaching very little to prepare the student for a career (with the exception of nursing and law enforcement) and focusing mainly on the student continuing on to a 4 year program at a university.
America needs tech schools now more than ever, but no one wants to fill the need because people that want to go to tech school aren’t willing to pay the big bucks that bachelors’ or AA degree program demands.
There’s plenty of ways for a person who works 40+ hours a week to get an MBA, but its almost impossible to get an AS while juggling a full-time job and family. To make matters worse, you can’t go to school full-time while on unemployment because that makes you unavailable for work (in Florida, at least).
So, the unemployed stay unemployed. The unskilled stay unskilled. The employers with good jobs can’t fill them with qualified applicants.
I thought there were more of these guys than there are lawyers. I suspect they mean finding GOOD ones, which isn't that easy.
As an engineer, my income has increased nearly 25% since the beginning of the recession. Now if Obama wasn’t so obsessed with taking it all, I might be more thrilled.
I'll be back in school for a masters soon so I can go from not qualified enough for lack of experience to overqualified in terms of education. Ain't life grand?
Electrical engineers ???? Guess again ... As a 30 year experienced EE whos claims to fame include the iPod and the iPhone I've had 3 face to face interviews in one year. I used to get one a week. I finally landed a job in Dallas which I start next week. After 3 days of GRUELING interviews I beat out no less that 2 dozen other engineers for this position.
I am a data analyst, have been for 25 years. I cant find a job to save my life.
Nursing shortage, as it was explained to me by a nurse back in PA fighting to maintain State requirements for licensing nurses, was not because of lazy Americans lack of interest.
People line up to get into nursing school.
Problem is those with the skills to teach have no incentive to leave their lucrative jobs when the teaching position’s salary barely equals half of their current earnings. That results in fewer nursing classes offered and fewer newer nurses in the field.
Hence, the offshore trained nurses are no longer limited to government hospitals.
That’s how it was explained to me.