[Utmost Certainty]

Many employers have asinine qualification requirements in terms experience/certification/etc., that are leaving many job positions unfilled.

Until employers wise up and lower their standards, as well as become more willing to foot the bill for proper training, this will continue to be the case.

[LibsRJerks]

Many employers have asinine qualification requirements in terms experience/certification/etc., that are leaving many job positions unfilled.

Until employers wise up and lower their standards, as well as become more willing to foot the bill for proper training, this will continue to be the case.

**

EXACTLY! Come ON —how hard are these jobs? Can’t they just take people with half a brain and provide a bit of training? Same thing seems to happen everywhere — they put out a laundry list of their “required qualifications” which NO ONE can obtain in a million years ....and then they wonder why they can’t find enough people.

Same thing goes in nursing. They only want “experienced” RN’s, when all it would take might be a three month training period on the job to turn one into an “experienced” RN.

Combine this with ASSANINE HR departments who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time and, somtimes, this is what you get.

[Vigilanteman]

We're a manufacturing company which has trouble filling positions for two main reasons:

1. People can't pass drug tests.
   
2. People who turn down job offers because they still have a long way to go on their 99 weeks of unemployment.

There is no way we will drop reason #1 because our manufacturing process uses complex, expensive high speed machinery which is dangerous if operated by people who are not alert. We also have no control over reason #2.