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The 2011 Skills Gap Survey by the Manufacturing Institute shows that about 600,000 manufacturing jobs are unfilled nationally in US because employers can't find qualified workers. There's a need for a new generation of welders, pipe-fitters, electricians, carpenters, machinists and other skilled tradesmen, high schools should be helping with this. WSJ writes that there may be a feature where welders could make 150,000 USD[Log-in Required]. Employers in US are so yearning to motivate young people that many are willing to pay to train and recruit future laborers. Ariel Corp recently announced that the manufacturer of gas compressors is donating 1,000,000 USD for updating the Knox County Career Centers computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) equipment, so students can train on the same equipment used in Ariel's operations. There seems to be a trend of college exam inflation.
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Friday April 25 2014, @05:35PM
You did read my whole comment, right? Including the bit in the brackets?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mhajicek on Friday April 25 2014, @05:54PM
My comment is in regards to your hoping for stringent requirements. Those requirements are a big part of the problem. It's like trying to hire a database programmer but only accepting people with experience working on your own database. Speaking as a CNC programmer with about 20 years experience, aircraft parts are just like any other parts. If the part meets the print, it's good, otherwise it's not. If you can make car parts, gun parts, toy parts, or any other parts to print, you can make aircraft parts to print. I think the issue is largely that HR either doesn't understand the job well enough to make good decisions, or is unwilling to take the risk of hiring someone who hasn't done that specific job before.
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(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Friday April 25 2014, @06:23PM
Ah, I see where you're coming from now.
Where pre-requisites for particular roles apply, you should find training courses or apprenticeships for those roles. At least, if they have a correctly functioning employment ecosystem you should. A lot of folks in western society are waking up to the fact that they failed to encourage their youth to pursue the broad spectrum of professions that society actually needs to continue functioning. Our domestic education preferences have become "top-heavy", preferring degrees over anything else, while relying on immigration for skilled labour from countries that aren't so snobbish or unrealistic about their children's future.
The result is obvious all around us - demand for skilled labour goes unfilled at any salary while college graduates fight for the right to flip burgers.
(Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Friday April 25 2014, @09:28PM
The bit that said where you *wouldn't* get that experience, but didn't actually mention how to break the recursion?
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