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IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US
coondoggie writes "Forty-nine percent of U.S. companies are having a hard time filling what workforce management firm ManpowerGroup calls mission-critical positions within their organizations. IT staff, engineers and 'skilled trades' are among the toughest spots to fill. The group surveyed some 1,300 employers and noted that U.S. companies are struggling to find talent, despite continued high unemployment, over their global counterparts, where 34% of employers worldwide are having difficulty filling positions."
Summary of most of the comments so far: "There are plenty of qualified Americans, companies just don't want to pay them the wage they deserve."
Our company once tried to hire graduates from American colleges as engineers and offered them plenty of money. It usually took them three days to do a 20-minute job. Once we started hiring people of the same age and same levels of experience from Europe and offering them the same money we filled the positions with qualified people who actually knew what they were doing.
Fix your broken education system and quit your whining about how downtrodden you are by these evil foreign workers "stealing" "your" jobs. If you'd spend more time getting your shit together and competing, and less time building Berlin Walls through the New Mexico desert, then maybe you'd get somewhere.
Oh yeah, and the usual xenophobic mods can suck my dick. I have karma to burn.
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You left out low salaries. It amazes me how little companies are paying their IT workers
Or maybe IT workers have an unrealistic idea of their self worth.
10 highest paid bachelor degrees in 2011:
3. Computer Engineering
5. Computer Science
6. Software Engineering
Only Petroleum Engineering and Chemical Engineering pay more.
How much exactly do you think your skills are worth? You work with a computer.. you don't create gold from thin air.
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