oh I get it, it is not 0bama’s fault, it is the economy’s fault now! ;)
Well, speaking for myself, if could be paid for 2 years+ to sit home and do nothing... why work?
A major problem for my company is liberal education. We don’t need a womyns studies doctorate, we need electrical and chemical engineers and geophysicists. If you went to school for “Studies” degree or “Art appreciation”, then you wasted the money and time.
Education requirements now on many jobs are bullsquat unless it is medical, engineering, science, or some other higher order schooling. (I am sure there are more, but mostly I think college has become a wasteland of liberal thought and drinking/drugs and hookups.)
I see now most highschool kids can’t speak properly, spell, do basic math, nor write a sentence. College now is having to make up for that lack of education. And it is failing.
I’ve read several articles documenting that some companies won’t hire anyone whose been unemployed, or isn’t currently employed. That could account for some of the problem.
Another problem...wages have dropped. So some refuse jobs thinking that they’re being “low-balled” by the employer, when the truth is, the job that paid $50,000 a couple years ago, probably pays $40,000 (to a new employee) in today’s economy.
Payback's a bitch but it's here - and, sadly, it ain't gonna be easy to fix.
Lawyers and bureaucrats are another part of the problem. They for a company to jump thru endless hoops to do business, and those hoops get passed down to the worker as the business tries to avoid the lawyer and overcome the increased costs imposed by the bureaucrat.
My last job, when I started I loved it. I did my job, did it well, and walked out the door at night without worry. By the end I spent more time doing everything but my job with the rate nearly double than when I started.
I simply couldn’t adapt anymore to the shifting, confusing mirage of what the company wanted on a daily basis. I’m not knocking them because they were trying to survive the what had been imposed on them. Much of it was contradictory and not possible to reconcile.
I can attest that there are lots of jobs for “Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence” experts. However the bar has been set so high that there are very few qualified people. For instance, a lot of companies are looking for Cognos developers, but unless you have worked for a company that used Cognos, there is virually no way you could ever learn it. IBM does not provide evaluation copies to consultants and there is almost no third party material of any use.
I don’t know why, but companies seem to have turned thierback on training. Guys who could write assembler or COBOL or Visual Basic could easily handle Cognos with a couple weeks of training.
typical liberal approach to a problem...they expect the world to change...rather than changing their policies that created the problem.
The inverse is also true.
The longer workers stay unemployed, the harder it is to find jobs.
That is why two years of unemployment benefits helps no one.
What is wrong with them? They have not found a job.
My Dad said there were jobs to be had during the great depression if you weren’t too fussy.
It’s in large part geography.
Jobs are being created in red states. Red state unemployment is lower. Thus employers in red states have more competition for the people they hire. It’s called “success” and it means the economy in those areas is growing.
Jobs are being lost in blue states. Blue state unemployment is high. Terrible in fact. There aren’t employers in blue states because they’re moving to red states. Leaving lots of unemployment.
Eventually the unemployed in blue states who actually want jobs will move to the red states, leaving failed blue states with falling populations, and falling representation in elections.
Now. If we could agree as a nation we need to keep jobs in America, all this would begin to correct itself.
There's also very little vigilance to make sure people who are receiving unemployment are actually looking for a job.
0’CARE has a lot of them scared to hire. And they want a person with 20 years experience for beginners wages.
It is a buyers market on houses, and it is an employers market on employees. Those 50 and over are going to have a rough time finding jobs of the same standards as the ones they lost due to 0’hoover’s anti business policies.
The company that my husband works for is looking for engineers, all kinds of engineers.