The skills gap myth: Survey reveals why companies can't find "good people"

http://business.time.com/2012/06/04/the-skills-gap-myth-why-companies-cant-find-good-people/

by yllus • 14 years ago

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yllus• 14 years ago

To summarize:

- 10% of employers admit that the problem is really that the candidates they want won’t accept the positions at the wage level being offered.

- Only 15% of employers who say they see a skill shortage say that the issue is a lack of candidate knowledge; instead, by far the most important shortfall they see in candidates is a lack of experience doing similar jobs.

- Yet only 21% of U.S. employees had received any employer-provided formal training in the past five years.

- Computer software used to filter out job applicants introduce a rigidity to the process that may lead to near zero real world applicants being qualified (and willing to work for the wage offered) for a position.

gkuan• 14 years ago

I like the candy machine example. I have an even more absurd example: a Craigslist post looking for someone with 5 years of iPhone App Dev experience weeks after the first iPhone was released.

The skills gap myth: Survey reveals why companies can't find "good people"

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