There are legions of people who would pay for training if they could be semi confident of getting a good paying stable job. If companies are so desperate why not offer a contract that if you pay for a specific training course, we will in tern hire you for x years at y dollars. I am very skeptical of these stories about companies who can’t find workers.
if you take and pass a specific training course at your own expense
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Excellent point. If companies need the workers so badly, they can start apprentice programs in-house (or in cooperation with companies in the same industry). I suspect that many of these companies want the people to just materialize without having to go thru the hassle of training them.
Because it’s cheaper to hire an illegal immigrant and train them on the job then it is to hire an American and train them the right way to do things.
They’ve been hiring immigrants especially with construction jobs for over 20 years. And notice how the quality sucks since then? Most of the houses built today are sloppy. The walls are crooked. The plumbing is done half-assed. They buy cheap dry wall from China that falls apart and ruins the electrical.
This is one big reason the government does not want to seal the borders. The GOP doesnt want to hurt those businesses that employ those illegal immigrants. And the Democrats want those votes.
Check your local tech college. Ours here offers a course in Journeymen Maintence Mechanics which pretty much covers most everything mentioned.
This is true. I have never understood why companies are not willing to do this, either. Part of it could be the burdens placed on businesses by govenment regulations. It’s expensive to hire people and unions make things even more difficult.