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  1. BrianFromWA

    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

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    I just saw a report on the tv about jobs...that 52% of companies in the US have high-priority openings that they cannot fill. Most of these jobs, the report from "the manpower group" said, were in high-tech manufacturing, engineering, skilled trades and machining.

    The reporter found a couple of technical colleges that talked about own they had requests for >500 jobs, but only graduated 20-40 students from their programs.

    Not sure if this is the case in the portland area, but it checks with my job searching in Seattle, dc and Boston from earlier this year
     
  2. BLAZER PROPHET

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    I have doubts about that. That is that they "cannot" fill. I wonder if a lot of it isn't "will not" fill. I mean, maybe it's true but there's a lot of college grads, ex military, foreign, junior workers... and we can't fill jobs? No training or mentoring programs? Maybe companies are setting the bar too high.
     
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    It appears that corporations are complaining that government-funded vocational colleges aren't churning out enough trained employees, free to the employers. I feel sorry for the companies, having to go back to the old days and train their own new employees.

    Maybe the poor corporations should request higher corporate tax rates to fund larger government-funded vocational schools. Those rates are at historic lows.
     
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    At my company there are senior developer openings that we can't fill all the time. These are 100K+ jobs. The applicants we get are just not qualified a lot of the time.
     
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    Therein may lay part of the problem. I know many people who can do the job, but aren't "qualified" on paper. Or who possess the job skills but need a bit of training.
     
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    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/us-usa-tax-ceopay-idUSTRE77U0KW20110831

    The other 75 were undertaxed, too. Yet they whine that government isn't training new hires, so they can't hire them. Hire and train them yourselves, corporations!
     
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    Im an accounting grad who is switching careers out of public accounting after two years and it seemed like there was an abundance of accounting work
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Imagine the govt. deficits if those companies stopped writing quarterly checks to the govt. Those checks are HUGE, regardless of the corporate tax paid.
     

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