Why recruiters can't find workers and new grads can't find jobs (it's not AI)(www.seattletimes.com)
4 pointsby WalterBright3 hours ago3 comments
  • WalterBright3 hours ago
    Seems that there are plenty of jobs available.
    • rolph3 hours ago
      it also seems there are not enough people entering the workforce in parallel with a large proportion of retirement.

      plenty of unneeded business/finance graduates available but we really need more sci tech and med to stay in step with demographic shift.

      • sleepyguy3 hours ago
        What kind of Sci and Tech?
        • jay_kyburz3 hours ago
          "There will be shortages in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of nurses, physicians, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, mental health counselors, construction workers and airplane mechanics – jobs AI generally can’t do"

          The problem, as usual, is that these companies don't want to train staff, they want them to pay for their own training (university fees) and walk into the job productive on day one.

          I guess there could just be more jobs than people, but I find it hard to believe.

          • sleepyguy2 hours ago
            Did anyone ever consider that people don't want those jobs? Educational costs, working shifts, stress, responsibility, physical toil....The problem is most of these jobs suck or require someone who really believes in what they are doing. Not everyone can be a doctor or Nurse or Mental Health Counselor. Most construction workers send their kids to school so they don't have to do construction work.

            Companies want contractors, temps, H1B's, etc. They don't want graduates anymore or "company people" anymore. Yeah, I'm sure a kid getting out of school with a business degree or CS degree could easily find a job for 12 bucks an hour as a painter or lawn care professional. But those are jobs they don't want to do and that is why they went to school.

            • jay_kyburzan hour ago
              Minimum wage should be a function of ceo pay and/or dividends to shareholders.

              Largest salary can't be more more than 100 times the smallest salary.

    • sleepyguy3 hours ago
      What kind? Vegetable pickers, roofers, general construction, etc.
    • tim-tday2 hours ago
      Really? I hear nobody can find jobs.
  • Mountain_Skies3 hours ago
    Turns out the using the same pipeline from dating apps for hiring skilled professionals fails as miserably as it has in making lasting romantic connections. Maybe go back to what worked, starting with limiting the ingestion net to one's local area.
  • shirleypatrick3 hours ago
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