• Lisa Simpson
• Jul 7,2010
• In: Foreclosure

Jobs are there Begging but Only for Skilled Hands

The recession has created this situation of jobs going begging but only for skilled hands well conversant with automation. During the gray days employers fired workers while themselves relying on computerized help; other jobs were outsourced. This has led to policy makers worrying about employment for the huge unskilled work force who are without employment for a long time and now without benefits.

Further stimulus measures were suggested by the Obama government but it was rejected by the Senate. More money has been set aside for training. But officials feel more steps should be taken to absorb the unemployment numbers. And foreclosure and unemployment are directly related.

The manufacturers contend that even with the surging of demand, the lower skilled posts would not make a comeback. The training has not yet started giving the skilled workers what is required on the actual field.

In Cleveland suburb Ben Venue Laboratories engaged in making drugs for medicine companies have scrutinized 3,600 job applications in 2010 and out of these found a mere 47 persons who could be hired for an annual remuneration of $31,000. All those chosen have to pass a test on basic skills to show that they understand math of the level of 9th grade. A good proportion of the recent applicants did not succeed. The quality of the graduates has disappointed the company. It is now trying to find suitable persons to fill up one hundred vacancies. Thus it is not always that during rough economic weather one can have the pick of applicants.

How many would be hired if the suitable candidates were found is not clear. Since the beginning of this year there has been addition of 126,000 jobs or 6% of those given walking orders at the time of the recession. The number does not give the comprehensive picture as a good number of factories are taking the help of temporary workers.

The chairperson of Council of Economic Advisers, Christina D. Romer said, “I do not think that manufacturing can come back to what it was before the recession”. She cited the example of automobile manufacturers who have been improving their performance and filling up the vacancies with those who had been discharged about one or two years previously.

National Association of Manufacturers with others made a survey of 779 industrial firms to find that 32% of the firms reporting “moderate to serious” shortages in skill.

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