We are doing it to ourselves. We are so technologically ahead of everyone that if we focused on educating our children to operate in these environments, there would be plenty of jobs.
Instead Johnny can’t read, write or add 2 plus 2, so Achmed is brought in to do the job. And frankly, Achmed with his masters in engineering from Chenai school of engineering and technology isn’t much better.
The other thing that is killing us is a product called Taleo. HR departments are so inept these days to a point they might as well be the DMV. The biggest problem in America today as I see it is one little line on a job application. COLLEGE DEGREE REQUIRED.
Many of these kids are intelligent and with a little OJT can figure out these systems. Instead they bring in people from off shore who take twice as long to learn things and in the end we wind up redoing it at twice the cost.
My best engineer has a high school equivalent. I fought HR and management to get him on board. And that was from over 200 resumes I received.
By the time they get out of school, their training will be obsolete.