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Where the Skills Gap Really Resides: a huge mismatch at the middle-skill level
It is those people who have not earned the minimum of a two-year degree that Scaglione says constitute a large population of our country who are stuck in low-skilled jobs that do not require any higher education. Low-skilled jobs that do not require a minimum of a two-year degree represent about 35 percent of all … Continue reading
US – 13 million are looking for work and almost half of U.S. employers have difficulty filling positions ?
There is a skills gap in the U.S., and it is expected to widen over the next decade. Addressing it will take the concerted efforts of both government and — especially given strained federal and state budgets — private industry. A paper issued last week by the National Bureau of Economic Research attributes roughly one-third … Continue reading
The Skills Gap Fallacy
We can have a philosophical debate about which came first — the chicken or the egg. But when it comes to job creation there should be no such argument. Organizations and individuals who create new organizations are the chicken — they are the job creators. Employees and skilled workers are the eggs — they are … Continue reading
Malaysia – Skills Gap in hotels makes it hard to get workers
The Sabah Hotel Association (SHA) is now experiencing difficulties in recruiting skilled workers to join the hotel industry due to various factors such as rapid room growth in the State. Its president, Christopher Chan, said the hotel industry in Sabah had gone through major changes both in terms of the number of hotels that have … Continue reading
Canada – Skilled Workers Immigration: brakes on
Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says it’s time to hit the “reset button” and temporarily put the brakes on new applications under two programs popular with skilled workers wanting to come to Canada from abroad. Kenney told a business audience Thursday that the government is placing a six-month moratorium on the Federal Skilled Worker Program … Continue reading
Skills Gap – Ohio: Manufacturers need qualified workers
The No. 1 issue facing manufacturers in Ohio is the difficulty finding qualified skilled workers to meet the needs of the industry in the state, according to sources at the Manufacturing and Distribution Update held June 27 at The Pinnacle in Maumee by Gilmore, Jasion & Mahler Ltd. (GJM). Staff members from GJM learned about … Continue reading
China | Skill Gap | A structural problem
Because of the slowdowns in both the global and Chinese economies, the shortage of laborers has eased slightly, especially for export-oriented companies. “Although it is still not easy to recruit suitable workers, the situation now is much better than it was at the start of last year,” said Zhang Kuifeng, general manager of a Hangzhou-based … Continue reading
Skill Gap | Arizona | 77 percent employers say “very difficult” or “somewhat difficult” to find qualified computer scientists
According to federal figures, there were nearly 3.5 million job openings in the U.S. in February. About 700,000 of them were in the West. With nearly 262,000 Arizonans looking for work, why don’t the jobs and the prospective workers match up? In everyday terms, the economy needs more software programmers and physical therapists and skilled … Continue reading
Canada | Skilled workers program changes will deter future immigrants
Canada’s decision to close the files of skilled workers who applied to immigrate before March 2008 will give the country a black eye and deter future immigrants with needed skills, according to a Vancouver immigration lawyer. The federal government plans to return applications and refund fees for nearly everyone who applied under the program before … Continue reading
Malaysia | 60% of jobs by 2020 would need skilled workers
There will be 3.3mil job opportunities by the year 2020 and 60% of it requires highly skilled workers. Deputy Human Resource Minister Senator Datuk Maznah Mazlan said as such, SPM school leavers were encouraged to take up skills training to build up a highly-skilled workforce in facing the transformation era. “We have moved beyond the … Continue reading
The effects of firm sponsored training for low skilled workers is very positive
“Very few papers exist that focus on firm sponsored training for low skilled workers” writes Ruud Gerards in his preliminary version of his paper. He uses “company data, which is especially rare considering the focus on low skilled workers. Second, they span up to 16 years of wage, job promotion and job performance information for … Continue reading
Australia | Skills Gap | Still Needing US Workers
There is a “healthy” number of apprentices in the construction industry of a “very high quality” in Australia, industry and training groups have assured, despite the fact the government announced plans to meet a skilled workers shortage earlier in the week. On Monday the Federal Skills Minister Chris Evans announced that the government will link … Continue reading
Europe | Tech Skills Gap a Myth?
It’s often claimed we are suffering an IT skills crisis of epic proportions: just recently the European Commission announced that by 2015 there will be an estimated shortfall of 700,000 IT professionals across Europe. And yet, academics have told TechRepublic there is little hard evidence of a shortage of IT workers, as neither pay levels nor … Continue reading
UK | Skilled migrant cap frozen for two years
The British government has bowed to pressure from business by pledging to freeze the cap on the number of skilled workers allowed into the UK for two years. The annual limit on skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area will remain at 20,700 until April 2014, the Home Office said on Wednesday. Independent advisers … Continue reading
Why immigrant professionals are under-employed
The federal government’s new plan to hire a private firm to assess the educational credentials of potential immigrants is wise. The significance of degrees and professional certificates varies widely and wildly from place to place (country to country and sometimes even city to city) across the world and across disciplines and specialties. The federal bureaucrats … Continue reading
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