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600,000 manufacturing jobs go unfilled due to applicants lack of 'soft skills'
American Thinker ^ | 10/01/2012 | Rick Moran

Posted on 10/01/2012 8:32:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: stuartcr

I read a recent article that claimed that many companies have fired most of their HR people and are trying to get by with software. (maybe that is what you are referring to).


61 posted on 10/01/2012 9:34:59 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Little Bill

Mechanics can make very good money.


62 posted on 10/01/2012 9:35:50 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

I don’t know anything about that, that would be even worse.


63 posted on 10/01/2012 9:37:27 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: IMR 4350

Next time you might give him his chance to stop the pipe.


64 posted on 10/01/2012 9:39:57 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: stuartcr

It was posted here within the past couple of months. Not sure how to find it now. Introduced me to the term “looking for a unicorn”.


65 posted on 10/01/2012 9:41:46 AM PDT by DManA
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To: SeekAndFind

Quick... Import more employees dt stupid Americans. Do ya think anyone noticed we don’t pay ss and other taxes related to hiring Americans? Nah! Pure coincidence


66 posted on 10/01/2012 9:42:40 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: stuartcr

If you ever have hired someone fresh out of college, you basically have to train them all over again for your particular field of interest. I’ve had to train freshly minted electrical engineers, who couldn’t even read a schematic, let alone tell me what the purpose of a particular circuit was. I had to teach them how to use a multimeter, an oscilliscope, a logic analyser, and understand the information they were looking at. College only arms you with the theories and formulas, the real education begins with your first real job. My job was to find the shiny diamonds in the rough, and make them productive and creative. It was roughly a 10 to 1 ratio.


67 posted on 10/01/2012 9:43:59 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Covenantor

English skills are a prerequisite for writing. The author should make a distinguishable point and state it in the first paragraph as a thesis. Otherwise, the column won’t get the attention desired by the publisher.

I read the whole thing. The author lacked experience in and knowledge about manufacturing, and he made no distinguishable point. The piece was all over the place.

Manufacturing is going down in the USA, because our leadership is saturated with social pathologies and lacking in leadership skills (unhealthy sex practices, drugs, anti-American attitudes, anti-family, etc.). It’s comprised of pretentious social trash.


68 posted on 10/01/2012 9:44:40 AM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: DManA
He does and he has high expectation of those he works with. I think he makes more under than on top, has a tremendous work ethic.

I told my guys, when I was a manager, I would fire half of them for three of him, never seen many people like him, must be his Polock blood, kind of thick headed though, stubborn.

69 posted on 10/01/2012 9:46:18 AM PDT by Little Bill
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To: joe fonebone

Horrible.
A long time ago there was a truism that whats good for business in good for America. I don’t believe thats so at all any longer. Not pointing the finger at anyone although there are some who deserve finger pointing like that guy you luckily never worked for. The fact is all the incentives are to pay less because cost’s such as health care go up yearly. If your company covers your health care and continues to do so well there was your raise. Another factor is companies can hire cheaper overseas and aren’t shy about doing so.


70 posted on 10/01/2012 9:46:30 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: IMR 4350

There’s a serious common sense deficit in America.

I once had a kid mangle his fingers when he did exactly what I specifically told him not to do and even showed him why (Not to mention the printed warning right in his line of sight)

The job was a simple matter of buffing the inner diameter of solenoid coils with a wire brush on a drill press. I told him to do it barehanded or wear a leather glove because the brush would catch the cloth glove and tear him up. I even showed the kid what happens with a cloth glove.

10 minutes later he was on his way to the hospital. One of the old timers said that when I hired in I was dumb like any new hire but the kids today are mostly dangerously stupid.


71 posted on 10/01/2012 9:46:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: stuartcr

The people in his former Florida district need to thank their lucky stars he’s on an obscure TV network and not [mis]representing them.


72 posted on 10/01/2012 9:49:14 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

Opps. posted to wrong thread.


73 posted on 10/01/2012 9:50:56 AM PDT by DManA
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To: SeekAndFind

The lack of grammar skills is regularly shown around FR and this site has the best of the best. Very depressing.


74 posted on 10/01/2012 9:52:06 AM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How willing are they to hire an age 50-something employee for more than minimum wage?


75 posted on 10/01/2012 9:53:46 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Obama gives us the gift of downward mobility)
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To: MissMagnolia

Don’t forget the healthy doses of self-esteem.


76 posted on 10/01/2012 9:53:57 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (ABO to the core.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yep.

Oddly the number one way to insure that no one wants to hire you is be an engineer over age 55.

Apparently that is one soft skill utterly repugnant to companies.


77 posted on 10/01/2012 9:54:12 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1350 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: SeekAndFind
But rather than seeking to assign blame, some kind of massive reform in education has to be undertaken or in another generation, we will literally be a third world country.

Government has been reforming and re-reforming education for forty years or more. The reforms undertaken in the past are a significant part of the problem. How about a return to real educational standards rather than a mish-mash of politically correct policies designed to pretend that differences in the abilities of students don't really exist.

78 posted on 10/01/2012 9:54:25 AM PDT by Will88
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To: factoryrat

And no combination of government programs will change that ratio.

And if they refuse to look for the 1 in 10 they will never find him. And if theyt luck into a 1 in 10er and don’t take steps to keep him they are very foolish.


79 posted on 10/01/2012 9:54:34 AM PDT by DManA
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
That's exactly what I told Exxon's head honcho when he told me I should not tell an Exxon employee what to do or put my hands on an Exxon employee.

I told him if I saw him about to get killed I wouldn't say a word or try and pull him out of the way.

His attitude changed real fast.

80 posted on 10/01/2012 9:58:15 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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