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They Are Hot, Upwardly Mobile Jobs. Here's Why They Are So Hard to Fill
- impish9208 2y agoGift link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/they-are-hot-upwardly-mobile-jobs-heres-why-they-are-so-hard-to-fill-513be597?st=jfb6nD https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/they-are-hot-upwardly-...
- duxup 2y agoThis is a good article and touches on something I've wondered a long time: >how to match people eager for opportunity with the millions of good jobs that go unfilled because workers don’t know about them or whether investing in the training will pay off. It's funny too because when I see hiring it's the opposite, they demand granular skills and so on. When I changed careers it was a similar challenge, no experience doing that thing (despite some formal training I did), need alphabet soup of a list of acronyms exactly matching the job. But that's absurdly narrow and in my experience it is less the exact tech and just "good people" you want. I previously worked on a highly paid tech support team staffed by folks with non traditional backgrounds, former truck driver, one guy did work on antennas / towers for most of his life, a former bank teller. And our team outclassed our peers in silicon valley with masters degrees in CS easily.... >The downside is that career decisions—some of the most critical choices of people’s lives—often come down to a haphazard mix of initiative, luck, coincidence and connections. Many struggle to find their way into careers with good wages and growth prospects. Even with the right training, workers’ lack of connections can contribute to the mismatch. Can confirm, I feel like my job transition worked due to luck at first, my skill was secondary to just getting in.