@nashnyabe7470

My mother got her first job in finance with no degree. Someone believed in her determination, took a chance on her and trained her with little education and 0 work experience. She rose up to senior management and only got a degree 14 years later. Today, the same company recruits' masters' graduates from target schools with prestigious internships. There is no skills shortage. Talent is there. No one is training or taking a chance on young people. Recruiters are looking for perfect Unicorns and using AI to lift the bar

@armandlize7774

the only real skill shortage is in HR departments

@olivier3516

So according to HR departments they can use AI to sort out candidates but it's not fair when these candidates also use AI to apply...

@nublet-bz5qo

"skills shortage"

been gaslighting us with the same buzzwords for 20 years now.

@tatianastarcic

Unemployment is an odd concept in an economy where for so many folks it’s necessary to work multiple jobs just to get by. Loose one and you’re counted as employed but suddenly don’t have enough money to live.

@RolopIsHere

"Skill shortage" ... they ask 10 years of experience on tech that only has 3 years of existing....

@Jose04537

There is no "labor shortage", there's a wage shortage.

@delusional88

Recruitment crisis??? What about the fully qualified and talented folks who've been out of work for months and years?? Companies need to be bold, bite the bullet, and hire candidates that could potentially do the job instead of waiting for their perfect unicorns.. Newsflash, your unicorn does not exist!

@danielcaceres9971

1. Disclose how much you’re going to pay,
2. Offer salaries that actually pay what is due,
3. Look for growth and not just a damn checklist,
4. Stop requesting people to subscribe to your site to apply,
5. Stop using AI to filter candidates.

@momo99123

It's funny how firms are complaining about not being able to hire whilst they have huge pools of talent to pick from and also don't pay good wages given the current inflationary environment we're in lol. Someone working in accountancy in a top London firm only gets paid 27-30k what a sham for working 10 hour plus days. Yet they still expect 'top talent'.

@danielgrayling5032

"...lets just scroll down to the comments to find out the actual problem expressed in a single sentence."

@danielgrayling5032

So people aren't having enough kids...
So we need to get all the people over 50 to go back to work, earn more money, buy more rental properties to let out to 4 to 5 people in their 20's and 30's...

20 years later: "We have a serious shortage of young workers and the ones that we have are all depressed, what's going on?"

@mayormccheese6171

Most companies expect you to know everything yesterday. There's no on the job training. I'm not going to bust my hump hyper-focused on learning one particular role when it could be gone tomorrow and there's only a 5% chance of actually getting hired.

@IndustrialBonecraft

"We'd like to pay you minimum wage, whilest simultaneously intensifying the societal hypercompetition and demanding skills and experience vastly in excess of what is reasonable, and then refuse to even suggest job security, in a market where even affording basic accomodation is becoming unattainable."
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

@Arinamee

as someone who is looking for a job for months I find this recruitment with AI stupid. I applied for the same job with almost the same criteria as my last job and I didn't even get a phone call, so of course you have a shortage of people. Humans can't be replaced!!

@hybridPeople358

I used to fix copiers for Lexmark working as a contractor. I was trained by Lexmark. I moved to a new state. I applied for a job with Lexmark. I wasn't qualified.

@SamGarcia

one of the big issues is that recruiters aren't former workers of the same industry and have no real idea what the work actually is,
destroy the institution of professional recruiters and have people that actually do the work be a hiring manager/recruiter
replace HR with a training department

@dragonwitch27

There isn’t a talent shortage—there’s a TRAINING shortage. Companies used to invest in training and molding their employees. Now, employees expect you to arrive on day 1 fully packaged. The business of “learning” is either your personal responsibility or some other employer’s problem.

@DelphineBarkley

In the 50's my Dad worked a modest job, Mom stayed at home and raised the kids, and they lived a nice middle class lifestyle including owning a home. Nowadays both I and my partner works and can barely afford to make ends meet. Soon the kids and family dog will need to work to keep this household going. It's the destruction of the American dream right before our eyes.

@suprfoodie

skill shortage in my country is just an excuse to hire experts from abroad for half the wage.