Posted on 11/20/2014 1:23:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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As the high demand for skilled labor continues to dominate conversations about hiring, some jobs that don’t require a college degree remain open month after month, with few workers to fill them.
This list, compiled by CareerBuilder with Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. showcases roles for which a college degree is not required and where the number of jobs posted by companies each month far exceeds the number of workers employers are able to hire.
“Job creation is gaining ground and job seekers are gaining leverage,” said Matt Ferguson, CareerBuilder CEO. ”For nearly 70 occupations in the U.S, the rate at which workers are being hired isn’t keeping up with the frequency and volume of open positions being advertised. By drawing attention to talent deficits, our list underscores opportunities in everything from technology and health care to sales and transportation for job seekers looking to make a change.”
To create the list, CareerBuilder worked with EMSI to analyze the average number of workers hired each month in upwards of 700 occupations between January 2013 and August 2014 compared to the number of online job postings for each of these occupations over the same period. The jobs highlighted here may require additional training following high school, but do not require a college degree.
Topping the list are truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer. Nearly a quarter of a million postings for these jobs appear online, on average, each month, while 131,902 drivers are hired. Truck drivers bring in median hourly earnings of $18.37, and in 2014 nearly two million workers counted themselves among their ranks.
Next up are merchandise displayers and window trimmers–a particularly relevant job as the holidays approach....
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
ROFL...Buddy?? First figure out my gender correctly...I am female. I’m self employed.
Is that against the law where you live?
It was a rhetorical question, not directed at you, but presented as a bit of futurist humor.
There’s a HUGE difference between flipping burgers and creating a meal from raw unprocessed ingredients.
One is a purely mechanical act, the other is a creative art.
A device that can create something original and delicious from a standard grocery bag has yet to be invented.
As for bartender, would you go to a tavern or sit down formal restaurant where there is no staff other than table clearers? I actually LIKE the staff at my local, and they earn a decent living from their tips. The same goes for when I go out for a meal.
I was in a full size Chevy Silverado when a POS boxey 80’s something car decided to stop in front of me for NO reason. I slammed on the brakes. ABS took over, I stopped 1” from his bumper. I’m sure he remembers me because of the hearing loss he incurred.
Point being ABS saved me from and accident and him from certain severe neck injury.
super skill good. ABS good.
What I desire and what will happen often turn out to be different things. Many countries already have automated bartenders and that machine does not merely “flip” hamburgers, it makes, prepares, cooks and garnishes them. Here’s a vending machine that makes a pizza, FROM SCRATCH, cooks it and serves it in THREE MINUTES.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3189482/posts
Your car may have stopped sooner with regular brakes (you can always come off them to unlock them); the best benefit of ABS is when you’re in the snow (it constantly tries to regain the road, while regular brakes wouldn’t).
I understand what you are saying, but you seem to be missing what I am trying to say: There are skills that cannot be replicated by machines.
All the products you are referring to are pre-processed ingredients. While the pizza machine can be loaded with flour, water, yeast, etc, it still needs all the other ingredients to be ready to use. It can’t make its own sauce or sausage or cheese or slice its veggies into various decorative shapes simply for the joy of doing so.
A machine can’t say “Hey, here’s a new ingredient, I wonder what I can do with it.”
All that is part of what being a chef is all about: the CREATIVE art of cooking, as opposed to the “slap it on some dough the way head office told me to” method of all fast food.
Yes, fast food workers will likely be displaced by machines, but servers and chefs in better restaurants are irreplaceable because of what they do OTHER than the simple production and delivery of food.
The elephant in the room that no one talks about.
I really don’t know, though when a friend in a nearby state was laid off, along with her entire division, there were many complaints of jobs advertised that did not exist, and I’ve read about it in other places too.
If you know more than I do, please enlighten me...
I worked at two different state’s unemployment offices for over 15 years, assisting veterans and welfare/food stamp recipients in finding jobs and supervising others doing the same thing.
Give me another bet.
Sounds like a tough job. You must have the patience of a saint.
But I’m still not clear whether advertising non-existent jobs is legal. I was describing situation in Idaho. Is it on a state-by-state basis? Or illegal all over the US?
"Robo" cars are already assisting drivers with things like ABS, automatic emergency braking and traction control.
Audi big cheese says, “Driverless cars by 2016 or I’ll eat my hat,” more or less
http://www.t3.com/news/audi-big-cheese-says-driverless-cars-by-2016-or-ill-eat-my-hat-more-or-less
Google testing driverless cars in Bay Area
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/breaking_news/ci_26948687/google-testing-driverless-cars-bay-area
NJ lawmakers begin to clear way for driverless cars
http://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/2014/10/28/nj-lawmakers-begin-clear-way-driverless-cars/18043681/
Advertising for a “projected” opening is not illegal as far as I know.
As I’ve told people before, my late father lived in abject poverty during the Great Depression, with the whole family sometimes sharing one or two potatoes amongst them. He told me that successful salesmen had plenty of money to buy themselves and their families food, housing, clothing, automobiles and etc. while others starved.
Are you not counting the 300,000 miles that Google has operated their autonomous cars already on public roads?
It’ll be at least a decade, probably two, before a robocar can be trusted “in the wild”.
Sure, there are airplanes that can land themselves, but they require an incredibly expensive infrastructure to support that capability (in civil aviation).
But then, I wouldn’t be surprised to see this guy in the White House that long.
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