Business owners complain about not being able to find capable job candidates. Yet based on unemployment figures, there ought to be oodles of job seekers. What is wrong?
The business owners I speak with weekly have a singular complaint: half of the job applicants that reply to help wanted ads disqualify themself by NOT following simple instructions. Why would a company owner invest time meeting with an applicant who transmits a poor first impression during a critical career move?
I could not agree more, we might have a slight unemployment problem. We have a huge lazy, don’t want to get off my ass, entitlement mentality, let everyone working pay me to sit on my ass problem today.
Add to that the fact that our schools don’t prepare students for the real world. If a student is not college bound, they ignore them. We need to return shop class, along with computer and robotics classes to our schools. We need to make skilled trades as prestigious as investment banking. Not everyone is suitable for college, and many who do go are not enrolling in courses that have real futures.