Small Businesses Struggle with Job Openings Despite Economic Growth: Cites labor quality as their single most important problem.

Small Business Trends ^ | Sarah Lewis

[lurk]

The biggest job suppressor today: the drug test.

[TheDon]

It’s immoral to strip human capital from other countries.

It’s also immoral to replace American workers with cheap foreign labor. Americans have reduced job opportunities and salaries because of it.

The H1B visa must be terminated.

[Mr. Jeeves]

We need Americans with good work ethics. Hard to find amongst our young these days apparently.

I can attest to that. Our American-born employees over age 55 or so are still very good. Younger people hate you for hiring them - because they suddenly realize you control their time.

[HYPOCRACY]

Yes and there are more than enough Americans to hire. Get a clue. This is propaganda to justify importing trash. Oh we can’t find a qualified American so we’ll import an illiterate Mexican or a barely literate Indian with a fake degree from a diploma mill.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Are colleges and universities failing to educate students for current job market or are they providing a broad education which does not prepare students for any needed job in today’s workplace?

[Varda]

Or maybe staffing totally uneducated people is a problem.
I went to a fast food drive through for the first time in years. My bill was $10.29, I gave $10.30.
The kid at the window wanted to know how much money I wanted back.

[Fledermaus]

It’s hit and miss. I’m always hiring. I’ve got about 4 part time high school kids.

Difficult to get them to work on weekends. School events, family, etc.

It’s a very small pizza joint.

[ckilmer]

The ticket would be to offer training for these jobs. People who complete the training and get a job would be eligible to have their worthless college loans forgiven. Pair that with massively scaled back college loans to program.

[Alberta's Child]

Reposted from another thread last night …

Just last month I attended a workforce development session at a conference hosted by one of my clients. The presentations by local employers were an eye-opening learning experience, and — to be totally frank — a disgraceful commentary on public education in that region.

I thought the focus of the commentary was going to be on the importance of educating kids in STEM subjects (for the companies that employ mostly professionals) and basic reading and math (for large manufacturing companies that employ mostly skilled blue-collar workers).

As it turned out, hardly anyone spoke about those things. Instead, the most common complaint from these employers was that recent high school graduates have an atrocious reputation for lacking even the most basic personal habits and behavioral standards that one would expect from any reasonably intelligent third grader — personal grooming, showing up to work on time, completing assignments as instructed, etc. I walked away from that conference understanding fully why American companies outsource their operations and hire immigrants.

We have ourselves a front-row seat to witness the decline of an empire, folks.

[ridesthemiles]

FROM ANOTHER THREAD:

“88% OF JOB APPLICANTS LACK THE SKILLS TO DO THE JOB”

[ridesthemiles]

1000% CORRECT

[eyeamok]

when 2 out of 3 High School Graduates can NOT read, write or count above a 3rd grade level and can’t figure out which bathroom to use, what did you expect??

[SisterK]

The left has had 60 years to dumb down our education system. Its going to take work to build it back up.

I am bookkeeper for a construction company. Many job applicants are high school graduates and cannot read a tape measure. Framing a wall 16" o.c. is the ultimate challenge because that also involves addition.

Math is hard.

[FreedomPoster]

Hyundai has a large battery plant here in GA. Apparently many of the workers were Korean illegals. Not sure how that is such a great thing.