Posted on 06/20/2011 5:19:51 AM PDT by markomalley
A mismatch in the US labour market between the skills of unemployed people and the jobs available is making it hard for some companies to find the right staff despite an unemployment rate of more than 9 percent, one of the country’s largest manufacturing employers has warned.
Eric Spiegel, chief executive in the US for Siemens, the German engineering group, said the problem exposed weaknesses in education and training in the US. Siemens had been forced to use more than 30 recruiters and hire staff from other companies to find the workers it needed for its expansion plans, even amid an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent
“There’s a mismatch between the jobs that are available, at least in our portfolio, and the people that we see out there,” Mr Spiegel told the Financial Times. “There is a shortage (of workers with the right skills.)”
He said Siemens was having to invest in education and training to meet its staffing needs, including apprenticeship programmes of the kind it uses in Germany.
His comments, made before Tim Geithner, the Treasury secretary, visits a Siemens plant in Ohio on Monday, suggest better education and training could help reduce the persistently high US unemployment rate.
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Just a thought.
A method to search through “pings and comments”, perhaps by date rather than having to continually hit “next page” would be very welcome to this FReeper.
No it is called strategic interest. I don't want to commit economic/military suicide to eliminate ALL unions. Look, the free destruction job is done, the rape is over the US corpse isn't moving anymore - she's dead. I hope you free traitors are happy.
I am anti-union as the next guy but non govt. union membership of the workforce is about 6%, A red herring.
If a company wants to move production form say Washington State to South carolina, that is none of my business. When a so called US corporation wants to move means of production offshore YOUR DAMNED RIGHT IT IS MY BUSINESS AND THE GOVERNMENTS BUSINESS.
I guess we simply need even MORE taxpayer money spent sending tattoo’d, overweight, unwed mothers of four to college to study non-hard science, non-engineering majors. The amount we’re spending now just obviously hasn’t been enough.
The emasculated, lost, male, US citizen youths? The ones who, in previous generations, formed the backbone of our manufacturing and technological prowess? Social justice dictates that these evil savages continue to get what’s coming to them.
Marxists have done their job well, undermining this once-great country from within.
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The Journ0list story du jour is that people aren’t qualified for the ‘good jobs’ that are out there. Obama is trying to push another jobs training program, to make insta-engineers. At least that is how it will be described. Since it will be called an education program it is probably a plan to kick money to school districts to pay for teacher’s unions benefit plans so teachers won’t have to pay co pays or contribute to their retirement like everyone else.
Siemens motors are blackballed here at our 100 million dollars in sales pump company. Awful customer support. Poor contract management.
Johnny turns in his math test and finds out that 2+2 does not equal 5. The teacher, not wanting to hurt his ego gives him a second chance and Johnny corrects his answer after a little thought and turns it over to his teacher who again finds it in error. "Johnny", She says,"your answer is again wrong! 2+2 may equal 4 but 5 is entitled to exist as well!
>When schools are more determined to teach entitlement values rather than math you get this result.
>>That is the absolute truth. As one who graduated from college some 22 years after graduating from high school, I can tell you that the mission of higher education isn't the same as it was a few decades earlier. Diversity, global warming, saving the whales - it's all about the latest teaching fad. That's not to say that there is no value in college, but one could easily throw out 50% of the "fluff" and maintain the same level of actual education.
What do you do for a living?
What I do for a living is of no importance to the conversation. I am a US citizen.
Actually Siemens spends millions of dollars educating their workforce on ethical business behavior and practice. I've taken three mandatory on-line courses in the last year produced and paid for by Siemens. These are mandatory courses and employees must score 100% to meet Siemens requirements. As any large global enterprise, they have had problems in the past and it has cost them dearly. On the plus side, they have made major strides internally to educate their workforce on proper business practice. Siemens does not stand alone in the world with the type of problems you state. They have close to 500,000 employees world-wide, with 60,000 in the U.S. -- that's a lot of people to be responsible for their business behavior.
It is not buying an alqueda car ten years from now that is the problem. It is buying the foreign oil right now that funds the people who support the terrorists that are killing our troops today. That is the real problem.
I have applied endlessly at Siemens for positions qualfied for, way over qualified and not qualified for, with same no thanks result.
But one cannot learn to be twenty years younger.
I have applied endlessly at Siemens for positions qualfied for, way over qualified and not qualified for, with same no thanks result.
But one cannot learn to be twenty years younger.
So a search on Siemens and bribe - it will be educational to learn how many senior executives have been caught bribing government officials. All the way up to the CEO in Germany.
Sure helps to get business when you spread some dollars around. Ever notice that Siemens is supporting high speed rail projects in the US, because they sell ‘em.
How many officials in the US have benefited from a little under the table deal?
No. It isn't any of your business. Unless you own stock and are a shareholder.
How about we make it easier to do business here rather than layering on yet another level of bureaucracy?
Or is that too much to f*cking ask these days?
Products made by US companies overseas should be subject to import tariffs. In fact tariffs should replace all forms of tax revenue.
There you go with the Socialism again.
Here's an idea... If the company is so profitable, why don't you start up a domestic competing interest and rake in the big bucks?
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