If you get a degree in Women’s Studies or Black Studies, expect to be unemployed or working at McDonald’s.
There is no such thing as a labor shortage. Their is only a shortage at the wage being offered.
This article is BS, just meant to keep the H1-B gravy train going.
And in other cases, "does not speak Mandarin or understand Chinese culture".
This is all tripe, and an excuse to bring in more aliens...because that's who the Dims like better then the Americans anyway.
The problem I have with this article, it that it lacks details on exactly which skill sets are needed. Categories like IT, advanced manufacturing, and health care are way too generic.
I heard a talk not long ago by a former SECNAV. He said that the there were simply not enough welders. Now maybe I’m naive, but how long can it take to train a welder?? I wouldn’t think more than 6 months of OJT.
I have no problem with NFIB. They do a good job. BUT I have a very hard time believing the above statement. There are a lot of experienced well educated people unable to find a job. FACT.
Then you read that companies are trolling through people’s Facebook pages and refusing to hire them because there’s a picture of them drinking a beer.
That isn’t how people who are desperate for qualified employees act.
Plus are the qualifications realistic? They put together these ridiculous specifications that no one can match. There’s even a phrase for it - searching for a unicorn.
Basically, they’re saying that they want to hire drop in place consultants without paying consultant rates.
about 2 mos ago, the MSM featured an employer who had a good paying job available for over a year and the article went on to lament people not wanting to put in a hard day’s work or start at the bottom etc.
FReepers Fisked that article pretty good. No medical/retirement benefits, low pay, relatively high requirements, international travel, no training, income based on omission and a listless commitment to hire anyone at all from management.
The company that employed me for 20 years began posting internships for high level company positions - FREE employees as it methodically laid off staff. Who wouldn’t want free employees, eh? No intention of ever giving them regular benefited positions. They had, for many years, planned 60 hour work weeks for large project teams - excluding vacation or sick time( but paid a flat salary based on 37.5 work week - legal because these are ‘intellectual property’ workers). This job crunch has really brought out the beast in companies that were already half way there.
I think this article is an attempt to help Obama explain away his failed jobs record. They are trying to shore him up by saying that we need more government programs to train people BEFORE Obama can lift the employment stats.
I think there is something to this, and the problem is that the prospective employees can’t do simple math.
My wife went out to lunch with a friend yesterday, and the friend mentioned her front door security gate lock is jammed so she leaves and enters her home via the garage. I went to the friend’s house with my tools to fix the problem. I was going to suggest she call an expert, a locksmith, to fix her problems. Now get this, she had several different locksmiths over there to fix her locks over the last year. None fixed her problems, and left the locks in worse shape! And on several doors. And left them jammed and non-openable with keys.
I spent an hour, including drilling out the jammed locks and running out to buy lock hardware, and fixed her problem. Swapping tumblers and parts is easy.
What the heck, why is it so hard to find young people with skills? In my day, most young guys could pick locks and figure out what makes them work.
Most small businesses do not have a problem finding qualified people, only a huge problem in finding people who WILL WORK! You know, get up in the morning, every workday morning, and go into work and do 8 hours of work. The small businesses that I have talked to have told me some amazing and frightening stories of what they have to put up with when dealing with employees.
Remember fellow Americans, as the news sponsored by our bosses said for the thousandth time, foreign communists are better than us.
Sheesh....it seems Businesses are becoming more whiny-er Socialists than individuals....”Government needs to educate/train more people”
It was not too long ago that businesses did not complain about “lack of skilled people” and actually trained people on their own. These days, businesses want government help more than the Welfare Queens
It is time once again for businesses to hire and train their employees....and stop asking the government to do so. Governments are broke, and the taxpayer no longer has the money to fund every little educational endeavor
It should be no surprise that government-subsidized student loans and grants that have no connection to the needs of the business community are producing a whole lot of unqualified graduates that are unprepared to do any real job. I believe the government-subsidized college education is a big and highly underreported factor in the high unemployment number. Just like the government subsidized mortgages for people who were unqualified to pay them back, the government is subsidizing education for people without any standards in place to make sure those students will be able to match the value of their loans with useful production in the real economy.