CNN - "Great job openings, no candidates"

[TomCADem]

What's the use creating in green energy such as wind turbines if no one in the U.S. is qualified to perform the jobs?

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/03/news/economy/jobs_sit_open/index.htm?postversion=2009110709

Great job openings, no candidates

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Despite millions of unemployed job seekers desperate for work, many open positions are languishing unfilled. The reason? Not enough candidates.

With job openings largely concentrated in specialized industries like health care, green technology and energy, some employers say the problem is finding qualified workers, which are in short supply. Meanwhile, they are inundated with eager candidates from other industries who lack the skills and experience that the job requires.

According to a recent survey by Human Capital Institute and TheLadders, more than half of employers said "quality of candidates" or "availability of candidates" are their greatest challenges -- despite the recession.

Mary Willoughby, the director of human resources at the Center for Disability Rights in Rochester, New York, has been trying to hire registered nurses, home health aides and service coordinators for several of the agencies that she oversees.

Many of the positions, which require specific skills and offer salaries in the range of $30,000 to $45,000, have been vacant for six months or longer.

[avaistheone1]

1. $45,000 is not very good pay for a registered nurse.

The agency should up the pay for the nurses if she wants a response to her openings.

[Lorien]

5. One I know in CA makes $37k a year. HE has had the same income for

almost a decade because HE works for a State hospital.

[avaistheone1]

10. The new registered nurse grads in CA I see are making 70k - 90k per year.

However, state hospitals probably do equal low pay.

I know a PHd, who a few years ago was teaching full-time untenured in one of the state's prominent medical school hospital/universities was making only $45K per year. That is wrong. It is far too expensive to live here.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

14. That would depend on where you live.

[amandabeech]

2. In the technology sector, employers retain laid off workers to train their replacements.

Perhaps these companies need to hire someone (from U.S. preferably, but from anywhere if the individual is here to train) to train all the eager applicants just like the tech companies do.

Anyone laid off in Europe who would be willing to come here as a trainer for a nice compensation package? How about Asia?

[Lorien]

3. Um, usually there's this thing called TRAINING

sounds like more bullshit from the fossil fuel lobby. "We WOULD have clean energy, but no one wants to work in green technology". How do you replace a coal miner when one dies? you hire a new guy and train him. Got eager candidates? TRAIN THEM you fools!

[Actionman]

6. x2

[Hello_Kitty]

8. Not to mention the cheap labor lobby

Who are casting about for an excuse to import thousands of indentured servants uh I mean "guest workers".

[tonysam]

4. That's because the working conditions are horrible in nursing,

and people have to be able to tolerate sickness and even death. Any kind of medical work, outside of administrative or office work, takes a certain type of person to do it.

No thanks in this neck of the woods at the age of almost 55.

[JHB]

7. Here's a wild notion: TRAIN people!

Invest in your employees. You might be surprised if you treat them like people and not "plug & play" throwaways.

[MindPilot]

9. Yeah, right, uh-huh.

As my mother used to say, "pull the other one; it's got bells."

"Shortage of qualified candidates" is corporatese for "we can't find anyone under 40 with a masters and 25 years of experience willing to work 80 hours a week for $20k."

[2Design]

11. Yea the media and corporations used this meme in the 80's to outsource or h

H1B us out of work - sick of this bs too

[cap]

12. how about training people! what's so darn wrong with that!

it's not like experienced people pop out of the head of Zeus like Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, did!

[lib2DaBone]

13. Goldman Sacs... Geithner..Summers..Bernake...

You don't need any training. You don't need any stinkin' jobs. Our Current administration is busy selling this country to the highest bidder. Hey.. need a Flu Shot? Go to Wall Street.

I recently read where Obama is willing to trade long range missle secrets if the Chinese are willing to keep on buying our worthless debt.

I can't go there now.. I'm too tired.. but if you Google it....

[glowing]

15. Back in the day, companies spent money to train and retain their employees.

If the company needed someone to fulfill a duty, they trained the person for that duty. You cannot tell me that someone with an engineering degree could not be trained into a roll that is needed for wind turbines.. along with that the manufacturers who are used to making parts.. but would have to be trained to make different parts. Its about valuing workers and training. These companies now expect everyone to go into debt training themselves at a tech school.. all the while they are unemployed and unable to afford health care or credit card bill.. yet are expected to take on student loans. This country's value of people is disgusting.

Also, seems like just another cop out so that they can pull in a bunch of H-1B visas to cover the jobs for a cheaper rate. They will train these people and threaten them back their own countries if they make waves.

[Odin2005]

16. They are lying in order to justify H1B workers.

[avaistheone1]

17. It won't be the first time they have lied.