It isn't a stupid place, though, these are well-populated areas. The guy in the article couldn't find people willing to show up to the interviews for a high-paying manufacturing job with good benefits and high wages, and here in Oklahoma they couldn't find people who could do grade-school mathematics, so they had to relocate the factory to Poland. I'm just not sure why people are complaining about a nation-wide unemployment issue when stories like this are the story of the day. I mean, yes, there are economically depressed areas, and there are people who are getting shafted by the labor market, but if you can't convert cups to quarts or do long division, that's your own problem, not the economy's.
Sorry, but that's bullshit. Having been on the hiring end of this, there is
no shortage of employees, there's only a complete unwillingness on the part of employers to actually contribute to a skilled economy. They will not train employees, they have automated all of their previous introductory positions, they move around so much that no one can safely invest in developing the skillset they need because the opportunity will be gone by the time they acquire the skills. They value pointless degrees and certificates over reliable workers, and reject out of hand those who
do completely qualify for the position simply because they are missing one of the many " technical requirements" that they'll pick up in a matter of days or weeks actually working the job.
When you're facing these sorts of problems, there's two things you can do:
Man up, and work on your company fundamentals and make some investments in the future of your work force.
Move to some place with enough of a critical mass in your industry that people will train themselves because they
know the jobs will be available.
The US doesn't have a lot of the second anymore - corporate mobility, offshoring and automation not only destroyed the paths to that sort of knowledge economy, but completely disincentive people making their own.
Take the guy in the article:
He's looking for exerience, but paying in peanuts. He's tossing people out left and right in the pre-screen, for being too old, for working in the wrong industry, and not considering them for any of his
other positions, but just outright tossing them. Then the ones he chooses... He's getting multiple no shows - in my mind, that's a warning sign on the employer's part. People no-show when they think you're dicking around with them, for whatever reason. He finally offers the top job to someone who was applying for a different job and who, from the way he acted up to that point, wouldn't have even considered if she had applied for it.
He has a very specific idea of who he's looking for and what he wants, but what he wants is the same thing everyone
else wants, and he wants a different company to have done all the work of making these people, and he's offering salaries that just aren't competitive for the sort of people he's targeting.
You know how you get both an employee and employment shortage at the same time?Eliminate and automate all the jobs where people can acquire experience without requiring experience, and being unwilling to invest in any alternative routes to success and unwilling to compete for the few who you might be willing to hire.
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