Even with unemployment hovering around 9%, companies are grousing that they can\u2019t find skilled workers, and filling a job can take months of hunting.<\/p>\n
Employers are quick to lay blame. Schools aren\u2019t giving kids the right kind of training. The government isn\u2019t letting in enough high-skill immigrants. The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n
But I believe that the real culprits are the employers themselves.<\/p>\n
With an abundance of workers to choose from, employers are demanding more of job candidates than ever before. They want prospective workers to be able to fill a role right away, without any training or ramp-up time.<\/p>\n
In other words, to\u00a0get <\/em>a job, you have to have that job\u00a0already.<\/em> It\u2019s a Catch-22 situation for workers\u2014and it\u2019s hurting companies and the economy.<\/p>\nTo get America\u2019s job engine revving again, companies need to stop pinning so much of the blame on our nation\u2019s education system. They need to drop the idea of finding perfect candidates and look for people who\u00a0could<\/em> do the job with a bit of training and practice.<\/p>\nThere are plenty of ways to get workers up to speed without investing too much time and money, such as putting new employees on extended probationary periods and relying more on internal hires, who know the ropes better than outsiders would.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a fundamental change from business as usual. But the way we\u2019re doing things now just isn\u2019t working.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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