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 ...
I’d like to see a robot drive a tanker on ice or a load of swinging beef in the mountains.
WHY does DISNEY have people driving the MONORAIL????? HELLO???
Lawyers. PERIOD.
I have a lot of experience with “threshold braking” from race car driving. But on the street I love my ABS.
I work for a company that makes the computer chips for those.
How much? lol So does Nascarnation have anything to do with that statement?
Look up stupidity in the dictionary under s!
Automation is “stupid” you say? I’ve got a load of bad news for you.
bttt
Done. Thanks again
They are kicking ass in the new data centers. I’m on the power side but if you get in on the chiller side you are in very high demand.
Better have a clean record thou.
As long as people cook at home, there will be chefs and likely full service restaurants. Social interaction is a basic human need.
There are still blacksmiths, custom tailors, coopers and fletchers, but they’re not the norm.
That’s where “unarmed teen” Michael Brown (pbuh) was supposedly headed.
Yeah, my computer never crashes.
I guess you haven’t flown on an airplane in awhile?
No I haven't for the last 10 years. Are you saying no one is in the cockpits now?
Pilots are mostly superfluous, yes.
So when I hear the words "Pilot Error" I can just assume I'm being lied to and a computer crashed the plane? Any commercial pilots out there that want to weigh in on this?
Not sure where you live, but here in Maine, with ice on the road, we have cars with ABS that just won’t stop.
I had a Chevy with malfunctioning ABS that wouldn’t stop in the Summer time, it would just roll out into the intersection going “rrrrrrr”.
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