However, others in attendance doubted whether such a skills gap actually exists — or suggested that its existence is more nuanced than a simple
lack of skilled workers — and said that many companies» hiring practices may in part be to blame for their inability to find skilled workers.
While there are 7.5 million unemployed Americans as of December 31, 2016, the irony is that there are 5.5 million jobs unfilled, many due to
a lack of skilled workers.
However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between
a lack of skilled workers and unfilled jobs.
Not exact matches
Jobs are going unfilled, despite significant un - and underemployment, with employers blaming a
lack of qualified
workers (the so - called
skills gap) and job seekers complaining that companies are too picky and unwilling to train.
In this age
of Big Data, Qlik surveys demonstrate that «
workers lack the
skills to fully leverage the abundance
of information to create actionable insights.»
As in many
of China's steel towns, the
workers were older and
lacked skills to compete for other jobs.
Legislators have announced efforts to improve the visa process and retain more highly
skilled, foreign - born
workers, but perhaps unsurprisingly considering the general
lack of productivity in the current congress, these efforts have been largely ignored by lawmakers.
Small business owners in the Journal article say the
lack of skilled, experienced
workers is hindering their ability to expand.
On the outsourcing debate, Cook has previously said Apple would not be able to shift much
of its manufacturing back to the United States because
of a
lack of workers with the proper
skills.
For example, some companies are yet to budge on Trump's requests to bring production back into the U.S. Apple CEO, Tim Cook said that there is a
lack of workers with the required
skills in the U.S. Not only that, but if the majority
of production comes back into the U.S., the cost
of its products will rise by at least 100 %.
The Liberals have chosen to invest much more time in electioneering than governing and this is reflected in the
lack of leadership we are seeing today in B.C. Everyone from students and families to seniors and
skilled workers are facing real challenges with no meaningful support from the B.C. Liberal government.»
A new briefing paper suggests that the
lack of workers with
skills in science, maths, engineering and technology (STEM) and «soft» communications
skills is not due to problems with the education system, but to employers being unwilling to offer higher wages to suitably
skilled workers.
«Businesses complain about the
lack of workers with STEM
skills but are unwilling to raise wages for these
workers — or reduce wages for
workers with
skills that are less in demand.»
If a poor country is poor because
of lack of skills, as Stanford's Paul Romer points out, the few
skilled workers must be earning very high salaries.
Traditional training methods, long lasting courses, dated content, and
lack of interaction, come in conflict with the
workers» needs for flexibility, work / life balance, personalized learning — and the option to choose what they need to learn and when they want to do it, in order to enrich their
skills with useful, on the job knowledge.
«The
lack of opportunities for these
workers to build their
skills ought to be at the top
of the list
of items that state leaders are concerned about,» Tripp Jones, MassINC's Executive Director, said.
The most startling finding
of the report, released by the nonpartisan think - tank, MassINC (The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth), is that 667,000
of the 1.1 million at - risk
workers have earned a high school credential but still
lack basic math, reading, writing, language, and analytic
skills at the level considered acceptable for the typical 21st century workplace.
This
lack of well - trained, highly -
skilled middle - level
workers weakens the ability
of American businesses to compete on a global level.
Meanwhile, equating the teaching
of basics with job training
of «compliant
workers,» he glosses over the fact that «many employers in the business community feel dissatisfied because,» in the words
of the Committee for Economic Development's 1994 report, Putting Learning First, «a large majority
of their new hires
lack adequate writing and problem - solving
skills.»
If an injured
worker lacks the physical capacity to return to the type
of work he / she was performing when injured and
lacks transferable job
skills to obtain other employment within their restrictions, the Administrative Law Judge has the discretion to award Vocational Rehabilitation, ordering the employer /
workers» compensation carrier to pay to retrain / educate the injured
worker.
According to economist James Bessen's article «Employers Aren't Just Whining — the «
Skills Gap» Is Real» in the Harvard Business Review, employers report difficulty filling jobs due to workers lack of skills «to deal with new technologies.&
Skills Gap» Is Real» in the Harvard Business Review, employers report difficulty filling jobs due to
workers lack of skills «to deal with new technologies.&
skills «to deal with new technologies.»
Dislocated
workers can also be self - employed or unemployed people who can no longer make a living due to natural disasters or the
lack of skills to obtain a job that can support the household.
There are more jobs going unfilled in the U.S. than ever before, and it's because there's a
lack of workers with the right
skills to fill them.
60 %
of workers want to change careers to move into their dream job but feel they have the
lack of skills and money to make that career transition.
Whether you're a recent college grad or an older
worker trying to on - ramp back into the workforce after taking some years off, you're afraid that your inexperience /
lack of skills / employment gap / etc.
Many employers, regardless
of the company's headquarters location, hire
skilled workers who need housing and
lack familiarity with a foreign market.
February 24, 2014 CoreNet Global: China Faces Shortage
of Talent in Corporate Real Estate China faces a
lack of workers with higher - level
skills, including those demanded by the corporate real estate industry, according to a report from CoreNet Global.