High-Tech Worker Shortage Claim IS a LIE

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Skilled worker shortages are a scam. Business can't find workers that can "step into the job" because every business is different, and the only workers that know your business processes are your workers, so of course you can't find any workers.

Point is businesses needs to train its own work force, but are increasingly reluctant to invest in people. Instead they complain and recycle workers.

"Point is businesses needs to train its own work force, but are increasingly reluctant to invest in people. Instead they complain and recycle workers."

I see this at my company big time. I don't remember that last time I seen a college aged person hired for an IT job. It is usually older, more experienced workers or foreign workers. No one wants to take the time to invest in training young workers.

Haji wrote:

"Point is businesses needs to train its own work force, but are increasingly reluctant to invest in people. Instead they complain and recycle workers."

I see this at my company big time. I don't remember that last time I seen a college aged person hired for an IT job. It is usually older, more experienced workers or foreign workers. No one wants to take the time to invest in training young workers.

This is the price we pay for mobility. It made sense for a company to train its employees back when people worked in their first job out of college for 15 years. These days, it's rare for an employee to stay with their first company for more than 2-3 years. No one is going to invest a ton in training you under these circumstances, so you need to invest in yourself and show up ready to perform from day one.

Honestly, I personally am okay with having to finance my own training in exchange for a bit more mobility. Grad school and some internship work is a small price to pay for not being expected to stay with a single employer for the majority of my career.

a young worker wrote:

Honestly, I personally am okay with having to finance my own training in exchange for a bit more mobility.

Your training was likely financed largely by federal loan guarantees.

Without that big pile of money backing you up, you'd never get the loans necessary to pay the bloated cost of your certification. Bloated as a result of the limitless availability of those loans, allowing schools to charge as much as they want.

This expensive certification process is now so economically entrenched that employers couldn't train their own workers even if they wanted to.

Businesses save gobs of money requiring people to get training in college. That is a large reason why colleges are so crazy expensive. They have to have elite research facilities to give students the training employers are requiring. The cost of computer labs is off the wall. Same for everything from mechanical engineering to biomed. Graduates have already saved their employers $100k+ by the time they walk into the door thanks to what colleges are now forced to provide.

The flip side is that colleges can only afford to do so much. In Seattle, employers are always searching internationally for computer science grads because UW can only afford to have so many spots due to the cost of computer lab time for students.

Why hire a non skilled college grad who will demand more than an experienced foreigner? If you want the job, prove yourself.

How exactly do schools train employees anyway? I'm an engineer and everything I need to know I learned on the job. School was pointless.

you sure can tell which posts come from folks in high-tech jobs and those that aren't

It makes sense. I manage a large IT department and we would love to hire young workers, however, most of them have poor work ethic and very large entitlement complexes.They seldom want to start at the bottom and work their way up and have been brainwashed into thinking their education is a guarantee of their suitability. The experiences I have had while interviewing young IT candidates is enough to make me shudder.Recent immigrants, on the other hand, work very hard, and generally are more reliable, both in terms of absenteeism and attrition.

Haji wrote:

"Point is businesses needs to train its own work force, but are increasingly reluctant to invest in people. Instead they complain and recycle workers."

I see this at my company big time. I don't remember that last time I seen a college aged person hired for an IT job. It is usually older, more experienced workers or foreign workers. No one wants to take the time to invest in training young workers.