What skills do you require and where do you want them?
We have millions of Mexicans crossing the border and discovering the wonders of indoor plumbing and toilet paper and they say we lack skilled workers?? The shills!
I simply don't believe this report.
If they are not allowed to import skilled foreigners to fill them they will likely move their firms overseas... just saying
I can believe this. My brother’s company has been trying to hire a PHP programmer for ages. The hiring bonus being offered keeps climbing, it’s now $5000, paid after the first 90 days. They’ve had 2 applicants, neither of whom bothered to even show up for their interviews.
Even worse than the lack of skilled workers, I think, is the lack of work ethic. Those few employees with a strong, honest work ethic are worth their weight in gold, but are becomming rarer and rarer.
And people wonder why this country is being flooded with Chinese, Japanese, and Indians all holding their green cards in hand..........All countries who dare to put education ahead of everything else, including football and basketball.
Where does the U.S. rank on the global scale in terms of high school education levels?
This is what happens when you refuse to trainer your employees.
They don’t want human workers. They want robotic DRONES.
They don't NEED no steenkin' skills.....they're in the Union!
Just try and hire a setup CNC machinist who can write his own code.
I've come to the conclusion that all anybody under 30 wants for a career is an mediocre office job with an Internet connection so they can Facebook with all the other mediocre people with office jobs.
Another result of stupid trade policies that were guaranteed to export US manufacturing plants and jobs to cheap labor nations. When the plants and jobs are exported, we lose the skills and the improvements in manufacturing processes and the stream of new, qualified employees who see career opportunities.
Young people have seen far fewer career opportunities in US manufacturing in recent decades, so all the training, education and skills needed for manufacturing will continue to diminish in the US.
And notice the article does not list all the causes of lost manufacturing so popular around here: the EPA, high corporate taxes, OSHA, etc. The overwhelming reason for lost manufacturing is cheap labor, and that has been the case for several decades now.
I started to notice about twenty years ago that companies write very detailed descriptions of requirements that almost no one could possibly have all the requirements. The first screener of all resumes are made by a human resources admin that doesn’t understand a word they are reading and throws out those that don’t have ALL the correct words.
#1 thing I see that young people don’t have that manufacturing shops need are people who understand shop math.
That includes trig.
If someone doesn’t know trig, they have no business in a machine shop, unless they’re simply loading a pallet on a CNC machine and hitting the green button.
You would not believe how many kids get out of high school without geometry or trig.
But they know all about how to put condoms on just about anything that moves.
It seems to me that, if there are millions of unemployed people and businesses with jobs to fill, but can’t fill them due to not finding people with right skills, that implies a failure of the education system to create skillful people.
It also seems to me that the economy is suggesting that the solution isn’t for businesses to wait for the right people, but that businesses should be involved in creating the right people.
Hire them and train them, then take the tax breaks for training people.
Well, my 2 cents is that I started working for siemens energy in jan. 2011. It is a very good company to work for so far. They do pay well also. They are still looking for people for an expansion that is happening. You have to go thru a series of tests and interviews, but, if you know your field, you`ll make it...
Thank you, publik skoolz!
This is quite true. There is a huge skills mismatch in our country. Manufacturing is no longer the dirt-under-the-fingernails operation it was decades ago. It’s all highly technical now and requires skills our schools don’t teach well, if at all. Womyns’ Studies and high self-esteem just don’t git ‘er done.
1. Urine testing
2. Credit Checks
3. Criminal background checks
4. Scouring of social network sites
5. Present employment status
Employers only want people who've never 'colored outside of the lines' and there are not many left.