“longer-term effort to transfer responsibility for training workers from employers themselves to the taxpayer”
Key phrase. Even though, for most jobs, people can often be productive right from the start, even if they aren’t optimally so and even if the employees themselves are willing, and most are, willing to do their own training on their own time, employers are not willing to spend even a modicum amount to train them.
I see ads where companies are looking for manufacturing people with experience operating specific machinery. How likely is it that someone is going to be experience on the particular equipment your company uses?
Since this ad has been up for years I suspect they are just fishing for a "dream candidate" for the job.