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The mismatch between available jobs and the skillsets of the workforce has baffled me. Is it just that autoglass installers aren't in sufficient demand for peop
by pc2g4d 10y ago
The mismatch between available jobs and the skillsets of the workforce has baffled me. Is it just that autoglass installers aren't in sufficient demand for people to train to become autoglass installers? And so would it be economically inefficient for the government to subsidize the education of more autoglass workers?
But maybe it's not a question of insufficient demand for these skills. Maybe it's a question of matching up job opportunities, workers, and the capital necessary to train the workers for the jobs.
Imagine this: a site/app where employers post job openings with certain skill requirements, and where workers apply for jobs. These sites already exist. But add to it an element where workers can say they want to work a certain type of job but need additional training to do so. Then investors can put forward the money to train the worker, in exchange for 10% of the worker's future earnings until the loan is paid back plus interest.
Microfinance not as foreign aid but as grease for the labor market.
- insickness 10y agoThe problem with this is that its often difficult to tell whether a person is suited for a job or even would like a job until the person starts training in it. You could decide you want to go into HVAC because there's a lot of money in it. But six weeks into the training you hate it or you realize you suck at it. Who foots the bill for that failure?
- aharrison3 10y agoThe debtor would. They can choose to stick it out until their loan is repaid or find another way to pay it.
- ConfuciusSay02 10y agoThere is no skills/jobs mismatch. These types of articles are part of a stealth propaganda campaign primarily designed to push for more immigration for the purpose of driving down wages. If people think there are not enough skilled workers domestically, they will support more immigration. Don't fall for it! Employers can't find skilled workers... at slave-wage salary. That's the part they never include. How is an app going to fix the problem of employers posting fake jobs domestically, in order to circumvent the immigration rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
- sgnelson 10y agoPart of it is that we've stopped training our workforce. I have a friend who has been a machinist his entire life. He taught me a lot, and is one of those guys who has probably forgotten more than I will ever know. But when he started, he was an apprentice for 5 years. And he worked with guys who taught him everything he knows. Now, if you want to become a machinist, you have to pay your own way to a community college to become a trained machinist. It'll probably take 2 years. But I hope you've got money to support yourself with over those 2 years. We have almost no real apprenticeship programs anymore. Companies want their employees to come out of the public education system full formed to be exactly what the companies want, but they're unwilling to really put down the cash to train them and educate them. So we've created a system that once again privatizes rewards for the companies (not having to pay to train an employee), but "publicizes" risk (the student/community pays for the training.) That, and we don't want to pay people a decent wage after they've done their training. Why should companies pay them barely more than minimum wage? The same thing is now playing out at the University/4 year degree level.
- AnimalMuppet 10y ago> Is it just that autoglass installers aren't in sufficient demand for people to train to become autoglass installers? The article said (in the very first line) "no experience necessary". They still can't get autoglass installers.