Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers

sean_nestor writes "Back in October, an article appeared in The Wall Street Journal with the headline 'Why Companies Aren't Getting the Employees They Need.' It noted that even with millions of highly educated and highly trained workers sidelined by the worst economic downturn in three generations, companies were reporting shortages of skilled workers. Companies typically blame schools, for not providing the right training; the government, for not letting in enough skilled immigrants; and workers themselves, who all too often turn down good jobs at good wages. The author of the article, an expert on employment and management issues, concluded that although employers are in almost complete agreement about the skills gap, there was no actual evidence of it. Instead, he said, 'The real culprits are the employers themselves.'" The linked article is an interview with Peter Cappelli, author of the WSJ piece, who has recently published a book on the alleged skills gap.

Comments

Re:Lie on your resume

[meta-monkey]

Exactly.

HR: "With which programming language are you most familiar?"
Coder: "The one best suited for my current project."

They don't get that.

Re:O RLY?

[wed128]

Unless you lose her to starvation

Re:O RLY?

[erroneus]

I remember when dotNet was still being talked about... it was not even released. I was looking at some job listings where they were asking for 5 years of dotNet experience. I felt compelled to submit a comment on that requirement saying "uh... did you know that dotNet isn't even out yet?" The reply was, "No, I didn't know that... do you have *any* experience with it at all?" Wow. Just wow.

Realism... WTF?

Re:Lie on your resume

[Minwee]

a Visual Basic programmer

I understand what those words mean individually, but I don't see how they can go together in that way.

Re:Lie on your resume

[w_dragon]

Maybe it means a Microsoft employee who worked on the VB interpreter?

Re:I don't think you understand how this works.

[Curunir_wolf]

Next time, save space and say "I have no fucking idea what Libertarianism is, and because I'm a partisan hack, it SKEEEERS ME! MY TEAM".

Well of COURSE libertarians scare people. They want to take over the government, then have it leave you alone!

The horror!