Forum Post: Skills gap hobbles US employers - this is why you shouldn't major in basket weaving hippie freaks!!! !
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 14, 2011, 11:33 p.m. EST by aries
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The president of Marlin Steel Wire Products, a company in Baltimore with 30 employees, Mr Greenblatt says his inability to find qualified workers is hampering his business’s growth. “If I could fill those positions, I could raise our annual revenues from $5m to $7m,” he says.
He is offering a salary of more than $80,000 with overtime, including health and pension benefits. Yet in spite of extensive advertising, he has had no qualified applicants. He is trying to train some of his unskilled staff but says none has the ability or drive to complete the training.
There is a market for skilled artisan basket weavers btw.
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Sad. I would post my link but you already know what the message is. :)
You bring up a very good point. I do not know very many Asians or Middle Easterners who are majoring in the liberal arts. If you are lucky enough to get the loan or smart enough to earn the scholarship, why shoot yourself in the foot by earning a useless degree?
interesting - no other comments lol ! I think we've got their number. laziness !!!
I chose my degree based off of current demand at the time. Now as everyone complains with these big degrees and no skill sets, I am currently employed and still being sought after by employers because my degree has VALUE. I bet you can guess that my degree was not in liberal arts...lol
time to retrain then. Just like people in the logging industry. If you see the forest disappearing & are not taking classes at night to change careers - who's fault is that?
My degree was in Automated Systems and Robotics, which appears to be viable and one of the most sought after degrees in manufacturing today.
so what's the problem?
If you read my post, I was not stating any problem. you may have misread. I was saying I was glad that I took the time and chose a viable career path opposed to some who go to college for lack of other appealing options and receive some liberal arts degree, then complain to everyone because they cant find a job.
great ! good for you - we are on the same page